An Eeepc arrives

Ok, so I’ll own up to the fact that I’ve always wanted a Linux laptop. I think Linux desktops are cool, and, as Linux matured, I thought it might even be relatively easy to use on the road. At one point, while in the employ of a software maker, I set up a [...]

eBooks vs software: what’s on your computer-like device?

So yesterday we were thinking about software and how, in my case, I’m not buying much thanks to all the great new products, mostly free (and mostly Google) that are available for my Mac and iPhone.
What I am buying, it occurred to me as I read from my Kindle during a solo lunch an hour [...]

The Cloud

So, we were among the many who had trouble accessing our email on Google’s Gmail system today. It was a bit of a shock: Google’s cloud products are normally so reliable. And that got me thinking about software in ‘the cloud.’
Apple’s Steve Jobs was quoted earlier today to say that Apple was on track [...]

My personal Olympics

We don’t have an extravagant, multimedia opening event planned, but the Gulker Olympics continue. In today’s event, the 2-mile stop sign dash, we achieved a new personal best at 1 hour, 5 minutes, shaving 5 minutes off the old record. This was the first time I did the whole distance without a cane, and [...]

Saving the planet via e-review

A Pearson publicist pinged me on the possibility of doing a review of the latest edition of Sams Teach Yourself C++ in One Hour a Day, and offered to ship me a copy. Back when I was writing for the late, lamented NewsForge (now folded into linux.com), and writing technical manuals and user guides on [...]

Doh!

A number of kind readers made suggestions for finding my Mystery Computer, and, as I proceeded to follow the proffered advice, I did indeed discover the Mystery Machine: an Apple Time Capsule, a wired/wireless networked storage device, which has, of course, an IP address.
The twist was that I assumed that the 4 DHCP devices on [...]

Mystery continues

Honest, I cannot find the mystery computer: I can see it on the LAN (ping times are sub-millisecond), but I cannot find the physical machine after much digging around the premises. I checked both our Intel Macs (a Mini and the Mac Pro) to make sure they weren’t running an instance of Linux or Windows [...]

Mystery computer

While fiddling with our firewall last night, I noticed that it showed 5 devices connected. That’s odd, I thought, since I only have 4 computers on the LAN. I looked around the family room, but no dice. We have 2 Mac Minis, 2 Mac towers, and that’s it… there’s an elderly G3 Powerbook in the [...]

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