Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
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EE Times – The trouble with Rover is revealed
“The irony of it was that the operating system was doing exactly what we’d told it to do,” Klemm lamented.
Gee, do much debugging there, Klemm? That’s a daily “irony” when developing software.
Not much blogging lately – I’m sick, and it sucks. This is the third weekend in a row when I’ve been under the influence of this stupid thing. I don’t know why, but I never get quick colds any more – they always last for weeks and weeks, and the cough always turns nastier and nastier.
Anyway, I was discussing backing up computers with some friends, and I decided to try something new. I’ve always been more than a little paranoid, mostly because I’ve had a string of really bad luck with hard drives.
Continue reading “Backup Solutions”
I just had a check returned as “undeliverable”. It was addressed to the EAA (Experiment Aircraft Association) at a post office box in Oshkosh Wisconson. You’d think that in a town with a population of 62,916 (I looked it up), SOMEBODY in the post office would have heard of the organization that operates the fly-in that attacts 700,000 visitors to the city every year and know how to get mail to them. Sheesh.
My friend Rohan noticed some time ago that I had over 7000 units on SETI@Home, and he appeared to take it as some sort of challenge.
Continue reading “The thrown gauntlet”
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