Blog O'Stuff

My dad was over last night for dinner and afterwards we checked out the new toys we picked up on Saturday. At his suggestion I lit up the n...

The weather wankers are calling for the Philly area to get anywhere from 6 - 12" of snow, with the festivities to start sometime this m...

I picked up a Yugoslavian M-59/66A1 SKS this afternoon for $150 OTD at Surplus City. I figured I'd better get one while they're stil...

The Mozilla guys released a security update/bug fixes to Firefox today. Release notes here . So far I've installed it on my Dell D600 ...

No post yesterday -- Amanda got her ear tubes. The operation went well and she recovered incredibly quickly. By the afternoon, it was impo...

Darryl H. emailed me at my Gmail account inquiring about how to manually set Windows Master Browser roles. Normally, Google posts relevant ...

Yesterday I made a site visit to one of my clients to install antivirus software on their file and mailservers. The fileserver runs W2K3 SB...

Taking a look at the flip side of the gun control issue, Reason magazine has published a review of the book, Shooters: Myths and Realities ...

Find out here . Not the crowd I'd want to be associated with.

I got permission to use a Dell Dimension P4 for testing so this morning I was able to load Astaro Secure Linux 5.1 to kick the tires. The t...

Knoppix is often touted as a good choice for using as a bootable rescue disc. There's nothing wrong for using it as such but a more spe...

My research of content filtering applications led me last week to Astaro Security Linux . Aside from enabling one to easily setup an x86 bo...

I just haven't posted since last Wednesday. We had a nice weekend. Saturday morning we visited with friends who just moved into a new (...

Feedback from readers Al and Paul have caused me to reconsider the Quicken/Quickbooks choice. For my needs Quicken may be enough. Since I ...

I am looking at installing NOD32 Antivirus on the SuSE/CommuniGate Pro mailserver and Windows 2K3 SBS file server at one of my clients. I...

Tonight I finished putting together the materials needed to file our 2004 income taxes. Since I do some side work I need to put my expenses...

I'm back home enjoying a Newcastle Brown Ale after spending a couple of hours with my dad at the range. I ran 150 rounds of Winchester-...

On Krautboy's blog : Okay, I like Star Wars as much as the next person who was a child during the late 70's/early 80's, but t...

Home sick again today. Judith and I have been paying about $50/month to Verizon for telephone service, just for local and Philly Metro. ...

The sinus infection I've had since Sunday had me feeling like total crap this morning so I called in sick. This sucks. After breakfa...