So a friend tells me that his email “just won’t work.” Me: “Okay, how does it not work?” Friend: “Um, I don’t know. I just don’t get mail.” Me: “Well, can you try it and tell me what it does?”…
PC Life Cycles
Since some of you might not read Slashdot… http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=7453/ddj0208q/0208q.htm Sam has been howling at this. It’s painfully funny because we’ve lived the whole scale of cruftiness with our PCs.
Movies, Mommying, Miscellany
We watched Galaxy Quest last night. That’s always fun. It’s one of the movies I want to own on DVD, but we sorta need to get a DVD player. Katie is doing her math, then she’s going to finish reading…
Grrrr
Hmph. One of our PCs—the one Sam has been using for writing, and the one with the fastest processor and most RAM—has decided that sometimes she doesn’t have a NIC. It’s integrated into the motherboard, and sometimes she sees it,…
P2P
I want a better Gnutella client. I’m using BearShare at the moment, but it crashes frequently. My wish list is can specify the port it uses more stable saves download list between sessions boolean logic for searches—or at least SOME…
Chat Programs
Last night aladriana clued me in to something I’d been silly about. Most of my chat thingies are set so that only people on my contact list can talk to me because I don’t want IM spam. So LJ people…
Time to Change the Oil
I am officially bored with my website. It’s been static for way too long. Some things just aren’t on my mind as much as they were at one time, others have become more important, I’m sure there are dead links,…
Printer Glitch
Why won’t the LaserJet print PDF files anymore? It did before. It just decided it can’t do them without an overflow error now. Weird.
Fixed One Thing, at Least
Okay, I figured out the Xconfigurator thing. Finally. You can ignore my pitiful email, voltbang 🙂 Current Music: “Sweet Maiden”, Jamie Anderson, <b>Bad Hair Day</b>
And Now for Something Completely Different
My dad called me at about 1 pm to tell me he got out of the hospital early this morning. He’s only taken one pain pill since the surgery and that was on Friday evening. He’s supposed to be at…