On Essential software redux
I’ve been far to quiet here for way too long. So, to kick things back up, here’s my redo of my most essential mac software. I’m doing this because this one post is the most visited page/entry to my...
View Articlereturn
I’m back (and a review of the ZaggMate) It’s been a while since I’ve written anything to this blog. Sorry about that. Had some issues with hackers, patience, a new baby, and laziness. It happens....
View ArticleOn the right device for the plane
## So I travel a lot I’ve been on a plane a ton lately. Last year, for the first time in many, many years, I made platinum with Delta. However, even with that semi-rarified status, I still don’t get...
View ArticleMy public and private cloud experience
## So – I lost some images… Today I had to do some errands, one of which included me going to a car wash. It was more than just a simple wash – it was the first wash of my wife’s 1.5 year old car. Yeah...
View ArticleWas Sun right?
## My move to the cloud It turns out that my move to the cloud might be what everyone else is going to be doing. Over the last week or so, I’ve changed the way I look at my computing devices. For a...
View ArticlePost PC world
## It’s about who uses it So I’ve been ranting about how, for me, the iPad is not the device for content creation. After further reflection, that needs to be revised. I should change my tone because it...
View Articlefaster, must do faster
## Act without doing One of the big pleasured I found since switching to the mac is [Quicksilver](http://blacktree.com). For years it was _the_ way for me to launch, open, do anything. If you’ve never...
View Articleso I remember
One of my clear recollections of my early computer usage was the day that I bought my first hard drive. At 5 MEGA BYTES it seemed a luxury beyond all imagining. It only cost me $3,000.00. In 1980. Had...
View ArticleOn Lion and recovery
I’m 30K feet plus up in the air right now. Doing some work with my MBA. Can’t tell you again how cool it is to be able to work while I’m sitting on a plane. With a real computer. So – I’m typing away...
View ArticleOld computers were fast (back then)
Speed I have many vices. One of them is collecting old computers. To me, those are the 8 bit systems that were popular in the late 70’s and early 80’s. This last week, I was able to get a nice...
View ArticleAnother fresh start
So, like usual, I’m sitting on a plane and have little to do. Figured that this is a good time to start writing for my blog again. It’s been much ignored recently, but a new update to Ulysses just came...
View Articleupdate on the DCF upgrade
Got the C6100 on Friday (8/5). The system is as described by the seller on eBay, but … FFS … it only included one power supply! Tried getting the thing going and ran into immediate snags. First, each...
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and the lab is up
Ok so I got it working on Sunday, but I’ve had a long week and didn’t have a chance to update. The C6100 is up and running. I’ve moved it into the DCF and surprisingly, the noise on it is actually so...
View ArticleAnd an Altair diversion
Back to the future with an Altair! Retro computing is one of those things that I dabble in. I’d like to do it more, but there’s this thing with time that I don’t have a lot of. But during one of my...
View ArticleOne more basic diversion
I found and loaded a copy of BBCBasic on the AltairDuino. This is a basic I never used when I was really running CP/M but it looked interesting. In the veins of the previous MBASIC post, I ran the...
View ArticleSpeeding up low priority stuff on a Mac
I’m in the middle of taking a MacBook Pro I have that’s been sitting idle and setting it up as my kid’s computer. First thing I had to do was to wipe it clean. Then a reload (High Sierra was loaded on...
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