Computers

DSL Update

Thanks to everyone who replied with regards to my DSL woes.  I apparently had a brain tumor for breakfast yesterday morning because when I was checking with various providers, I kept giving them the phone number of our new house.  Said phone number is not yet active.  So, of course, no server reported DSL as [...]

Doomed!

Linux novices like me probably shouldn’t be allowed to even play with their Linux boxes. Such computers are simply doomed to live like cats, always dying and coming back to life. Mine has dies and been resurrected, by my count, four times now. It’s just died again, and is waiting for me to resurrect it [...]

Time, Space, the Living Dead, and My Computer

First thing’s first. I’m not entirely certain I know how I should feel about a journal entry of mine turning up for this search on Google. I suppose it takes all kinds. Ah, well.
Today’s Report:

In the job hunt, I went to a job fair in Sacramento today. If [...]

Bean Trick: Or, Another Three Reasons Why My Wife is Cooler than Yours

Usually, when I decide it’s time to zark a computer to death, it’s my Linux box that bears the brunt of my incompetence. Last week, though, I booted into Windows to check out an image I wanted to work on, and discovered that I was unable to hook up to the Internet through Windows 2000. [...]

Making it Cooler

I’m feeling much better now. Oh, yes. The Java programming final that was kicking my butt last week is over; I got a B on the final, and an A- in the class. The instructor assured me that only one student received an A on the final; still, after having stayed up until 2 in [...]

Wherein Our Hero Discovers He’s Been On Earth All Along

All in all, I think that Jennifer has probably made the transition from engaged to married more smoothly than I have. While I still find myself stopping dead in my tracks from time to time (inconvenient when I’m driving at eighty miles an hour down highway 80) and thinking to myself, "Wow! I’m really married [...]

Code Code Code

This is the first computer-related class I’ve ever taken, this class in Programming Java from University Extension. Well, okay, I took a class in Pascal when I was in high school, but let’s be honest: who in the world ever programmed in Pascal except for high school proto-nerds like myself? First-year college proto-nerds, I guess, [...]

Object Orientation and Object Obsession

The last time I did any serious computer programming (apart from playing around with macros in different Microsoft or Corel products) was when I was in high school. Back then, BASIC was spelled in all capital letters and lived on computers that ran CP/M as an operating system, and still had line numbers:

10 [...]

Clear Cutting and Sweeping Away

Yes, I know that I used this very same graphic in my last journal entry; but I felt that it might be appropriate to use it once again.
This past Thursday — yesterday, in fact — was supposed to be a fairly normal day at work. Install a few applications on my users’ computers, do some [...]