g’nōō-bûr

I really try to keep my mental dalliances under control. I have a million projects I’d like to work on but I realize I have priorities. Then, something hits your fancy and you do some math in your head while in a traffic queue. And then, even though the thought is complete, […]

There are wireless mice & keyboards, printers, and now there are even wireless USB hubs. Go ahead and buy them. But don’t count on me to smile when you ask me to fix them. Again and again. For 4 hours at a time.
The surest way to make something not work all […]

I just got an 8inch 500Mhz Celeron Fujitsu Stylistic LT C500 tablet and GPS antenna. They’re for my newly acquired travel/family car/truck, a 2006 “first-gen” Scion xB. The tablet fits perfectly in the unusually-laid out dash. Figured it would be funner to use a full x86 PC for GPS and MP3s than […]

My Ubuntu experience keeps getting better.
This month, I finally moved my main dual-core AMD64 machine to Ubuntu, because I realized I was going to want to buy 4GB or more of RAM. (The currently prevalent RAM, DDR2 is so cheap it makes it more worth upgrading your whole rig than buying more of the old […]