Dork geek
Just spent 15 minutes tracking down a phantom machine on my home DHCP network. I was working on my wifes laptop figuring out why it had lost it’s IP again and wouldn’t renew. I checked my […]
IU Mens Basketball
IU vs UI today. Will Illinois play the revenge card again? I think not. The Sampson era so far has been marked by a much more focused team. Playing hard on all plays and with awareness. […]
Systems Management Server
Patches and Updates, oh my….
DA Bears
One day away from SuperBowl XLI – Will Rex rock and Peyton plop. Or will the Colt of destiny come shinning through? I think DA Bears will run it. Their D will just barely hold on […]
Free Windows software tools – My favs
Want to download some or all of this software all at once? Try Ninite.com Audio/Video VLC Media Player – Cross platform do everything player Songbird – Open Source music player Audacity – Free Audio editor and […]
Internet Explorer 7
I rebuilt my work laptop and instead of installing Firefox or Opera I went with Internet Explorer 7. I installed from a test build I’d made using IEAK 7. The install went smoothly and after a […]
Windows Media Player 11
Don’t upgrade to Windows Media player 11, yet. (01-27-2007) I bypassed my usual Audio app iTunes on a newly built machine in an effort to force me to use Microsoft’s new Windows Media Player 11. I […]
Cloud Gate – The Bean
Cloud Gate – aka The Bean, Chicago 2007 7:45am Cloud Gate – aka The Bean, changes people with it’s presence. I think they should send it around the world. Cloud Gate is a sculpture by Indian-born […]
Hedrich Blessing Architectural Photography
Yes I know it’s 1:45am ma’am, yes I do indeed need a 3:45am wake up call… When I called I doubt they knew it was from the bathroom phone while on knees with a dark cloth […]
A brief history of Windows PCs
Your computer is what’s often (derogatorily) referred to as a “WinTel” machine on which the software is dominated by Microsoft Windows and the hardware is dominated by Intel. Intel was founded by three unhappy Fairchild Semiconductor […]