About a year ago I purchased an Apple PowerMac Cube off EBay. My purchase was not driven by any need or concept of using it as a daily computer. The purchase was simply made due to the absolute beauty of the Cube‚s design. The current Mac-Mini is much smaller and more powerful then the Cube, [...]
In the next couple of weeks I’m going to gather my courage and carefully tackle some hardware upgrade projects. To many people these projects will be old hat, but to me they are new. I‚’ll be taking pictures and notating each step and observance to be posted here. These two projects include:
Upgrading a 450mhz PowerMac [...]
It’s been some time since my last post so I’ll jot down some thoughts about current or recent events:
I was expecting something special from Apple for the 30 anniversary but there isn’t any sign of it yet. I still think there will be something that Apple springs at the last minute.
The Microsoft Vista delay [...]
I’ve had a home network for some time with the main firewall/router being a LinkSys WRT54G that offers 802.11b/g and a four port 10/100 Ethernet switch. The WRT54G has provided excellent service, but I was wanted a few new capabilities such as better Quality of Service (QOS) control, DHCP with static IP Address, and [...]
The news story about the teacher in Colorado who’s student recorded him using his position as a pulpit for expounding his own radical political views to his students caught my attention this week.
What bothered me most was that this was happening in a classroom situation during normal school hours where the students are captive and [...]