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Tom awoke with a start, sitting up in his bed, drenched in sweat and his hands shaking. He had never had a dream be so real. Or at least it seemed real. Very real. Also very fuzzy. While the effect on his body was real, his memories of the dream were not all there, it was almost more of an emotional memory rather than a visual memory. Tom didn't remember most of his dreams. As he thought about it, he hadn't remembered [...] Read more

This adventure started many years ago, in a place far away. Really, about a decade ago and 2500 miles away from where I live now, is when I my first major drive failure that was not fully recoverable. And by fully recoverable I mean I lost some data. I did back up then but not on a regular basis. The drive that failed me was a Seagate 3GB drive. I was not alone. Seagate faces class-action lawsuit over 3TB hard drive [...] Read more

mother is someone who will: Be there when you are in need Call you out for your BS Help you up when you are down Kiss your boo boo when it hurts Guide you in the direction you should go but not lead, that is for you alone Lead by example, even if it means using a hammer to get the garbage men to do their job Show you the proper way to do things like clean a bathroom or a house so you are ready to go out into the world [...] Read more

Maybe the grass looked greener or the bits looked brighter. Anyway I'm back! Whether you want me or not. Lets start with the not so good and work our way to the better things. I know there are people who like colorful things, me and my icons are not one of them. The graphics drivers (maybe it is still new) may not be quite as good as other distros but then I can only guess they (the larger distros) have a lot more hands [...] Read more

It's not me, it's you. I was looking forward to your 34 release and had thought of doing a fresh install just to get the full benefits of things like BTRFS that won't change with an upgrade. I even did the upgrade on my Asus T100 Transformer as a test to see how things worked and ran. It was looking pretty good even if I think that Gnome 3/40 is a crap desktop environment. But the Transformer is closer to a tablet with a [...] Read more

The joy and fun of waiting on support As I write this, my work is more or less finished on my end for about a week now and while I have added my files to their internal site and most of it seems to be working some of their server software needs to be brought to current versions and a reboot to continue. While I know their sysadmin very well, they also use an outside service for most of the lower level support which [...] Read more

Holidays have gotten out of hand. According to the Holiday Calendar site, on April 3rd, there are five holidays. They are: National Film Score Day National Tweed Day National Chocolate Mousse Day National Find a Rainbow Day National Love Our Children Day Looking at then by month, last month was the high for the year at 477 with 192 this month. The total for the year is 2520 "holidays" around the world. Surprisingly, [...] Read more

That moment you realize it is going to work So I have been working on a spec project since early February, averaging about seven hours a day, seven days a week. At some point in the last two weeks I realized two things, one, I done screwed up and didn't think through the back end of this project and had to do almost a complete re-write of the back end with about 70% of the code done. I also had two presentations to a [...] Read more

Once again we are moving the clocks because this is one of those things that we just always do. You would thing by now that technology would be able to adjust the time on things so I don't have to change the time on the things that are not "smart", like the oven, microwave and the clock by my bed. You would think that all the hours saved between 14 March 2021 and 7 November 2021 (238 in total at least in the US) that I [...] Read more

During the past nine days I have been working on a new spec project that has pretty much taken all my working time. While I know enough of different programming languages to at least get an idea of what they are trying to do, there are only a few I really know well. PHP is getting to be one of them. In nine days, 55 files in 20 folders, just over 2000 lines of code that is a mix of PHP, HTML, CSS and a few INI files, not [...] Read more