Archive for December, 2005

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

The iMac lives

Well, earlier this month I reported that my iMac was dead. Well it’s alive again. Turns out that it wasn’t dead after all. Joe at MMCS had it for a week and it ran rock solid. He defragged the drive and fixed a few disk permissions but he didn’t find anything would cause a kernel [...]

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Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Santa Tracking

Track Santa at NORAD. Or track Santa using Google Earth. Personally I think Santa has stealth technology on that sleigh. These tracking systems don’t show him in the same place.

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Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Little Red Book story a hoax

Remember that senior at UMass Dartmouth who was visted by federal agents after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung’s book on communism, “The Little Red Book”? Turns out he made the whole thing up. Made a great story though.

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Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Blogging in Johnson City

‘Geeks’ seek to develop area’s blogging This article from the Johnson City press sounds like something the Tri-Cities Computer Club might do if it was still and functioning organization. More info is at Jose Castillo’s blog. Wonder if anybody from the Rocky Top Brigade was there? Although I guess that’s more of a Knoxville thing.

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