It’s about time for me to build a new computer. I last did so last time I wintered in Asia, and it’s been a few years since then. The rig that blew games out of the water back then only plays them hesitantly now. Luckily, constructing a new computer is a lot easier now than [...]
Anyone who is even a little bit a nerd needs to read this.
I tonight came across the operator’s manual for a Titan Missile complex. It’s an enormous, 600-page PDF that I just cannot stop reading. It is fascinating in a very literal sense for me–I’ve spent a few hours more than I intended to already reading this–because it hits several of my buttons: Big Tech, Nuclear Weapons, [...]
I saw The Watchmen last night, in the first showing in the local area. The character for whom I felt the most empathy was Dr. Manhattan. I suspect that this says something about me.
Certain BIOS configurations, including those on my primary computer, will silently deprioritize drives which have been disconnected. Consequently, after disconnecting the drives so that an attempted Windows install to an external hard drive can’t possibly mess up their MBR, it is important to disconnect any other USB drives simultaneously with reconnecting the primary RAID. Failure [...]
I was disheartened when, after following the instructions to create a USB-bootable installation version of XP, I got a STOP 0x0000007B during the installation process. After some debugging, though, it became apparant that it wasn’t my fault: I got the same error in the same place when using the official MS disc, even if I [...]
It’s been just over a year since I bought my first laptop. I bought the cheapest one I could find, because all I really wanted was to be able to dedicate a machine to the Army. It needed to be able to check my email, run the Army’s flight planning software, and little else. It’s [...]
Many bonus points to those who can identify the provenance of this image:
3.0 is finally out. Go get it. Say you took all the programming languages I have ever encountered and put them into a table. If you were to assign a column to ease of use, a column to language power, and a third column to the product of the previous two columns, then reverse sort [...]
Rigorous? Probably not. Entertaining? Yes.