The “other” evil empire finally got to me. I now have in my care and possession the Apple iPhone 3Gs. They give the employees a great price and service break at TAC/Schneider Electric. We all need to have cell phones of one sort or another so they help us get what we want. A lot of folks want the iPhone. I am debating if it is necessary to put the white apple logo in my...
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More Cubes, More HP, But Why?
The computer rebuild is over. The old box now contains a new AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2 GHz Socket AM3 Quad-core microprocessor. Wow, that’s a mouthful. What it means is it is state of the art (SOTA) for about a week or so… and impressive to computer geeks. The amazing part of the rebuild (required because of the lightning damage) is the $650 cost is far less than the cost of...
Continue reading...The Big Boom!
This is not about how the universe was created. It is about how some matter was destroyed, converted to energy so to speak. A good (true) story for the 4th of July. You have read about the many disasters Gloria and I have been through in the last several years. You know, “The Great Crash” and then there was “A House Fire (Almost)”. My sprained ankle hardly counts except it has taken a month to...
Continue reading...Quiet, I’m Tapeing
I had a very learning experience weekend. I decided to do some conversion of VHS movie video to DVD format. All perfectly legal as the tapes were very old wedding tapes in need of preservation in a more stable digital format. A client asked me to do these so they were not done just for personal satisfaction. As it turned out it was a great how-to and equipment selection learning experience. I trans-coded three tapes....
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