A continuation of what I was talking about yesterday. Today I changed internet service providers. I was drawn in by the amazing stats capability that Deltanet has, plus they are so freaking reliable that I bet if The Big One came along (that’s the big-scary-gonna-getcha earthquake, for those of you that don’t live in California), Delta’s servers wouldn’t even hiccup.… Read more →
Category: Technology
CD-R Drives
I bought a CD-R drive a several weeks ago, but other than backing up my data (which there is a lot of–over 160 meg just in data) I haven’t had any heavy uses for it. I originally got it because a) I don’t trust Zip disks for long term storage, and the drives are prone to a problem called the… Read more →
Distributed Computing
With each passing year it gets harder and harder to imagine what the world must have been like without computers, films, television, telephones, powered flight, and cable modems. Okay, maybe not the cable modem. Every time I think I have a handle on the power of 20th century inventions, something else comes along to widen my short-sighted perspective. It’s like… Read more →