11 Computers 11 Nerds or Geeks Aliens Predators Marines Quake Team Arena Beer Mt. Dew 3 days of blood, guts, bullets, and death
Just got a copy of Lynx. For the uninformed, it is a text based brower from the old days. Apparently it is one of those projects that is still being developed. Latest release was 10 Jul 2001.
Lots of forms to make work. Field names giving me problems and the like. Hope to be done with it today.
The USG Annual Computing Conference was pretty fun. Lots of geeks running around a 4-H camp (ergo the name Geeks in the Woods). Best example of a Geek? “who | grep -i blonde”
Here are the specs I would choose: Thunderbird 1.4GHz CPU (266 MHz FSB) w/ Heavy Duty Heat Sink and Fan Assembly same case and power supply: ATX Mid Tower Case with 300 Watt ATX PS same motherboard: K&S5A Thunderbird/Duron – Ultra 100 – ATX motherboard ( 1 4x AGP – 5 PCI – Ultra33/66/100 )…
Chris’ specs on a < $1K computer from Micro Pro: AMD Thunderbird 1.2 GHz (266 FSB) w/ heavy duty heat sink & fan assembly ATX Mid Tower Case with 300 Watt ATX PS K&S5A Thunderbird/Duron – Ultra 100 – ATX motherboard ( 1 4x AGP – 5 PCI – Ultra33/66/100 ) 256MB PC2100 DDR memory…
Writing up policies and procedures. What fun! Articulating what I already know. Course, it could be that I only thought that I knew them. Very real possibility.
Ah, installing Acrobat Distiller and PageMaker 6.5 so that I can convert the files the one person that still uses PageMaker needs me to make into PDFs. Deal is, you have to have a postscript printer installed to install Acrobat 4. So I had to crack that nut first. Think I might have it now.
Here is an article on computer viruses for which I was interviewed for the Spectator, the university student news paper. Lindsey Giddens Staff Writer Viruses are running rampant and are extremely contagious. But these viruses don’t attack your immune system–they attack your hard drive. The term virus is used to describe viruses, worms and trojans.…