Blog O'Stuff

My results: > You scored as Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) . You have entered the dark side of the Star Trek universe. The paradise of Eart...

Sheesh. Saturday I spent an hour or so redoing the repair job I started a week ago yesterday on one of our toilets. It had been running con...

As posted by Jamie Young on TRP: PA-Rally Point CCW/Home Defense gathering - Sunday, March 19th Place: Indoor pistol range DoubleAction.org...

RBT posted a query this morning regarding good options for printing digital photos. This was my reply on his message board: Re: Printing of...

Continuing our Bizzaro World discussion, it looks like there may be legal action to stop the sale of six US ports to a company based in Dub...

I think I woke up in the Bizzaro universe. WTF is the Bush administration thinking by approving a deal in which a company based in the Unit...

I've wanted a rifle in .22 Hornet for a long, long time, and finally picked one up today. It's an old H&R Model 158 Topper sin...

I received the following email today about the Marlin Camp 45 carbine: Dave: My name is Mike H., and I ran across your site while looking fo...

Yesterday I spent almost all day in the lab with an engineer from SMC so that he could get a handle on the situation I'm having with the...

We got about a foot of snow after it stopped falling yesterday afternoon. Not too bad but I am very glad I have a two stage snowblower. It...

My new article, Getting Started With Ethernet Cabling , is now live over at TechBuilder.org . Aside from GSWEC, check out the "Recipe...

While looking through the latest issue of Macworld , I ran across a mention of a extension for Firefox called Gmail File Space, or Gspace . ...

The FDA has approved a new vaccine from Merck to protect kids against the rotavirus . Amanda had this last March and it was just awful. T...

Back in November I thought I had an issue with SMC's private VLAN feature on their 6752 switch licked. When using the feature I was lo...

I updated Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox today. I'd downloaded Thunderbird 1.5 a couple of weeks ago but had postponed upgrading until...

Go here and with an uploadable image, you can make your own poster in the style of "motivational" posters. For example: :-)

Those of you who peruse the other Daynotes Gang sites may have seen that Brian Bilbrey got himself a Mac Mini. I sent the following to t...

For whatever reason the G3 in my lab didn't even like Panther, so I gave up. I now have it setup with the original drive running Jaguar...

I decided to get the G3 running by using only the 20 GB drive, partitioned half for OS X and half for OpenBSD. After partitioning it using ...

A little while ago I added an old G3 PowerMac to my lab. It's 350MHz box with 768MB RAM, running OS 10.2.8. It's a nice machine, a...