Category: nerd

My contribution to internet acronyms: RYFE (Read Your F*cking Email)

Michelle’s iBook wouldn’t charge. In fact, we couldn’t even get the AC adapter to plug in. The conductor fins inside the plug were crushed, and it was easier to replace it than try and bend everything back. Thanks to a tip from some IRC dudes, we found the part was named a DC Board. I ordered the part from The Computer Store, and it only cost $34! Although the Store recommended against my putting the part in, we didn’t want to spend the $160 it would cost for them to replace it.

Fortunately I had the Service Manual, and I’ve had plenty of experience with my sister’s iBook (Rev A clamshell). The repair took about 2 hours total, and it works again. I agree with The Computer Store, its not a repair I’d recommend anyone try ;)

Revalation Revisited: Windows does not make a good Server OS.

You may remember a flurry of discussion about SETI, the distributed seach for extra-terrestrial life that started back in 1998. I myself donated about 2 years worth of CPU time. Well, now scientists with the SETI project are going back to Aricibo to look at coordinates in the sky that produced unique signals. I don’t know if I ever provided any useful information, but there’s always a hope. The full story is at Wired.

I finally got around to installing Kung-Tunes. You’ll see what it does by looking to the left. There, just below the links.. that’s it. It displays the track name and artist of the song currently playing in iTunes. You can have it display any number of IDv3 tag items, but I like to keep it simple. Want it on your site? Better get a mac.

I’ve updated the Rooftop Brew website. I never intended for the last style to be the default page, it just stayed that way longer than I expected.

Anyway, the new page is done, including all those sub-pages that most people never get to. I think.

Now I’ve created an ABV/ABW calculator in PHP. It was more complex, as I wanted to include different methods and measurements. It seems to work just dandy. Let me know if something odd pops up.

I just completed my first PHP application. I’m pretty stoked because it was like a school assignment in that I had to learn stuff, but it was something I wanted to do, so there was no due date, but I was excited about doing it.

It took a while to find the right background information, and then a couple tips from friends helped as well. Feel free to try it out.

I just finished boxing up our second replacemet phone. Fortunately, the piece of crap died just a couple days before our warranty was up. That’s about the only good news that comes from the incident. It appears the cellular network has developed some form of intelligence and has heard all the disparaging things I say about phones, phone companies, and phone users. In this world gone mad, you don’t hang up the phone, the phone hangs up you….

Anyway, I’ve now lost all the phone numbers that were previously in it. So please call us or send us your phone number if you think we should have it. I swear I’ll write them down or something.

If anyone knows of a good Moveable type replacement, I’d like to hear about it. I’m tired of it. I’d install another copy of greymatter if I could, but it doesn’t seem to work. Any recommendations?

no, blogger isn’t an option