NEC SuperScript 870 February 22nd, 2003 @ 2:49 am PST
I own an NEC SuperScript 870 laser printer. When I bought it – sometime towards the end of 2000 – I was incredibly thrilled. (I had actually bought one sometime in ’99, I think. Then I moved to California and couldn’t bring the world’s most-economical, feature-rich, best-performing printer with me. So I bought another one […]
Strange Input May 21st, 2001 @ 1:23 pm PDT
A crazy input device
Sony CLIÉ May 1st, 2001 @ 3:58 pm PDT
<drool> Sony CLIÉTM handheld. </drool>
Server 54 April 11th, 2001 @ 8:38 am PDT
The University of North Carolina has finally found a network server that, although missing for four years, hasn’t missed a packet in all that time. Try as they might, university administrators couldn’t find the server. Working with Novell Inc., IT workers tracked it down by meticulously following cable until they literally ran into a wall. […]
Converting to MP3s July 13th, 2000 @ 1:06 pm PDT
Heh. I was only kidding. Yes, I am a computer programmer. I wasn’t kidding about that. (Although “computer programmer” is not usually what people think when they think of me.) But I wasn’t really worried about getting this thing running with a sound card. Hello? How hard is that? I freakin’ built Bud from scratch, […]
Hardware Sucks July 13th, 2000 @ 12:17 pm PDT
Heh. Cool. I’m a computer programmer. I am not a hardware guy. I am using a server as a development machine. The hardware guy just gave me a sound card and a screwdriver. Let’s see if I can do this … <Dr. Nick>Good night, Everybody!</Dr. Nick>
Excellent Error Message May 30th, 2000 @ 5:49 am PDT
Jason received this error message from one of the NT Servers at work: While validating that COM3 was really a serial port, the contents of the divisor latch register was identical to the interrupt enable and the receive registers. The device is assumed not to be a serial port and will be deleted.
Handspring Visor May 16th, 2000 @ 6:21 pm PDT
Did I already mention that I will absolutely die if I don’t get one of these in the very near future? That’s it. I’m buying one tomorrow. Case closed. Whew! It feels good to get that decision out of the way.
Handspring May 16th, 2000 @ 11:20 am PDT
Damn! Bryan blogged about his Visor and now I can’t imagine living another day without an ice blue one with a modem and digital camera eye …
Internet Infrastructure April 26th, 2000 @ 8:27 pm PDT
Here is an excellent article about how the web works. Thanks, Jason!