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Category Archives: Technology
Old School MP3 Player + Linux = Bang Head on Keyboard
Back in the days before the mighty iPod, lots of exciting MP3 players were available. I researched and compared and bought a Sonic Blue (used to be called Diamond) Rio S50. It was pretty small, used standard SD card memory, … Continue reading
Bryson Helped me Bring Back the Internet
Last week our Internet access stopped working. My not-so-old Linksys router had stopped working. It would stay on for a few seconds and shut itself down. This was the second Linksys to die on me, so I decided to ditch … Continue reading
Blog is Out of the Closet
If you can read this post, then my blog site is now coming to you via a real server in a datacenter, and not my 700MHz Celron with 256MB of RAM through a home cable Internet connection.
4 Months Without Microsoft
After over 4 months of exclusive Linux/GNU usage on my home desktop computer, I finally had to boot my computer with WinDoze to open Outlook and retrieve the Christmas card list we used last year. For the record, Outlook crashed … Continue reading
Genetically Modified Organisms
GMO = Genetically Modified Organisms, which is one of the main products of Monsanto, who is the maker of Roundup. Roundup used to be advertised as “biodegradable” until being sued for false advertising. Monsanto is also the maker of DDT, … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Interesting, Politics, Technology
Tagged bioengineering, biotech, food, Gardening, GM, GMO, government, hormone, Monsanto, roundup, roundup ready, science, The China Study, the survival podcast
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The Survival Podcast
My co-worker, Steve, told me several weeks ago to check out thesurvivalpodcast.com. He explained that this guy recorded his podcast on his daily commute through DFW. I wasn’t interested enough at the time to find a way to listen to … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Interesting, Politics, Technology
Tagged Gardening, podcast, survival, the survival podcast
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Online File Storage and more
Two web applications have become available to the public recently. They both do something very valuable, provide a method of keeping your personal files available to you, no matter what computer you are sitting at. These two applications actually do … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged dropbox, google docs, online file storate, web 2.0, wuala
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Only 37 Hours to Safety
I installed my two new SATA2 750GB drives with an “enlobal bearing” fan blowing on them and created a Linux software RAID1 array. I’m now in the process of copying the contents of my failing 600GB RAID5 array. Very exciting … Continue reading
