Remembering 1998 and 2000
The other day I stumbled across a couple of web sites I created in 1998 and 2000. The first looked very much like Yahoo’s directory. At the time Yahoo was still a pretty hot commodity and I really liked the directory style they used back then. By the time I re-built the site in 2000 [...]
Social networking, twitter and identi.ca update
Over the course of the next couple of days I plan on trimming my Twitter account so that I’m primarily following friends and acquaintances from the open source world, computer reuse sector, and people I know who influence the tech sector. My apologies in advance to anyone I’ve followed and am now dropping, it’s not [...]
Blackberry – there’s no app for that!
About 3 months ago I took the plunge and bought a Blackberry 9780, aka Blackberry Bold, on a Wind Mobile unlimited plan. Good plan, after 3 months of use: okay phone. Under Ubuntu Linux the 9780 can act as a mass storage device or it can synchronize various items. I’ve only used the phone as [...]
How to extend the usefulness of RPM for Non-Geeks
I originally wrote this article for the same web site back on January 30th, 2008. Much of it still applies today. Introduction Linux has reached a graphical state where “ordinary desktop users” can use Linux for daily activities they might use other operating systems for. While it’s possible to install software using a graphical tool [...]
68-pin SCSI hard drives available at The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project
We’ve been busy lately at The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project trying to clear out different items. Among those items are a variety of 68-pin UW (Ultra-Wide) SCSI hard drives. We’ve just finished overwriting a bunch of SCSI hard drives using Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN.org) and are now making them available to any residents [...]
