So, I got my DSL modem today from AT&T. Great. I bring it home and try to install the software. 3 reboots later, it finally actually installs instead of hanging part way through. So, now I have in installed modem, and no internet connectivity. I look at the paperwork. It is supposed to be turned …
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Home Made Rabbitcore Embedded Microcontroller Server Uptime Monitor
I have been having trouble with some web servers going down on me in the middle of the night. I decided I had enough, and am going to make a Server Up-time Monitor. Now, I could dust off one of the old computers I got laying around here (heaven knows I got enough of them), …
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Electronics Hutch
I recently moved all my junk to Florida from Wisconsin and don’t have a place to put all my electronics peices and parts and tools and whatnot. I don’t want it all laying around for the cats to sort for me, as most of it would end up sorted under and behind the furniture. So …
The operation was a success, but the patient died.
The old iMac bit the big one last weekend. It didn’t make the trip from Boynton Beach into Fort Lauderdale a year and a half ago, and it just sat on a dresser all that while. It would power on, and power off almost instantly, I never could get it to boot. I pulled the hard …
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Second load moving into my new place.
Katie and I dropped off my second load of stuff today. This was the truckload that Bill was so kind enough to let me store in his garage for a year and a half. The only thing broken out of all the glass was a chipped mug that could have come from the store that …