2 Robots

At first, I thought that my brand new Mac Mini was really slow. The web browser took a while to come up, and it was pretty sluggish. i installed Firefox, and that was about the same. It felt like a Windows PC running on maybe a Pentium II.
Then I realized that I’ve been running most […]

After spending a great deal of time doing my research, I decided to ditch my current PC (don’t worry — I have another one acting as a server in my closet), get a Mac Mini duo, and stick it behind my LCD TV on the wall. This is to be the ultimate MythTV front-end. I […]

I installed the beta version of the latest Ubuntu Linux yesterday on my Thinkpad. I typically look at the current state of desktop linux every few years, and this time it has come a long way. In fact, I liked it so much, I wrote up a support page on their wiki for my laptop. […]

Holy crap — this guy submitted a torn-up-then-taped-together credit card application, with a different address and phone number, and it was approved without even confirming any details with him! I mean, how greedy are the banks at this point? They are not only inviting fraud, but how smart can the people be who process these […]