If my toaster breaks, it’s cheaper to throw it out and buy a new one. If my refrigerator breaks, depending on the vintage of the hardware it’s usually cheaper to pay a service tech a few hundred dollars to fix it. Why is it that when my computer breaks it’s Read more…
As the devastation of Hurricane Charley disappears from the headlines of mainstream media, Southwest Florida is left to cope with the aftermath. We were lucky – in our neighborhood the most severe damage were broken limbs and a uprooted trees. To the north of us, the damage is far more Read more…
The saga of the wedding picture scanning is nearly complete. Having borrowed a Minolta DiMage Scan Speed SCSI scanner and downloading Vuemage, the real trick was getting the right version of Linux to boot. Knoppix 3.2 did not have the proper level of the libraries needed to run the scanning Read more…