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The right tools for the job
Very effective at clearing rooms indeed… haha..
Add comment September 6, 2007
Computers!
(Pic unrelated)
On June 16th, a bolt of lightning struck a tree next to my house and killed my motherboard and all of our networking equipment. On June 21st, I officially declared my newly built replacement system “fully operational.”
On June 24th, I started getting strange lockups in Windows, and failure to proceed past POST. At first I thought the DVD-ROM drive was faulty, since the lockup started happening when scanning the drive list… but that was not the problem. Next I was afraid that it was the Southbridge (with its somewhat inadequate cooling) on my new Asus P5B going bad…
After quite a bit of aggravation, I found out one of my 2 Western Digital 500GB SATA drives had errors and became unmountable. Removing the drive seems to have fixed the problem. Fortunately, there wasn’t a whole lot on the drive.
Looks like I’ll be returning that one to newegg for a refund, and getting a retail drive at Yubtseb because I don’t trust Fedex.
Add comment June 24, 2007
Stuff on my desk
I have on my desk 2 new things that require my attention. One is made primarily of paper and the other is not.
Add comment December 7, 2006
Apple: 1 Microsoft: 0
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/01/apple_drops_trusted_.html
excerpt:
Apple drops Trusted Computing
Amit Singh has a fascinating technical article on Apple’s use, non-use, and ultimate abandonment of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). This is the core of the Trusted Computing initiative, a chip that can, depending on implementation, be used to lock you out of reading your own data on “unauthorized” applications, to allow network service providers to discriminate against users of alternative software (e.g., “You’re using Firefox — go get Explorer and come back”) and enforce DRM — but also allow you to better secure your own data (you can do the latter without enabling the former, too).
Add comment November 3, 2006
