My cousin Dave sent me an email yesterday afternoon about Wii pre-orders at GameStop. I wasn't sure if I wanted to go over or not, but there's one very close to me next to the grocery store. Around 8:30 this morning I decided I'd go ahead and walk Seven over and see if there were any pre-orders left. I figured the store either opened at 8 and they'd be all gone, or it would open at 9 and the line would be so long that they'd run out anyway. But it's not far and Seven...

The weather has changed instantly from highs in the 90s to highs in the 60s. I'm glad it's cooled off, now I can spend whole days working in the garage instead of just a few hours in the morning. Although I don't know why it has to be so sudden and drastic. Now that it has cooled off so much, it looks like I'll be wanting to have fires again soon. Checking over the fireplace I realized I need a nice little stool to sit on that I will be low enough to peer into the fireplace...

No computer is an island, unless of course it's a Mac with an operating system prior to OSX. Last night after getting rid of most of the old Macs I had, I was wondering if there had ever been a version of MAME that ran on 68k Macs. There was, so I thought what the heck and maybe I'll continue with my scheme of turning these junkers into "arcade machines" in order to get rid of them. I fired up both computers to verify they are working, and both booted up fine. Same as...

Yesterday I finally decided I needed to get rid of a bunch of old Macs that I took home to save from ending up in a recycler's scrap heap. They all worked so I have been resisting for years turning them in as junk since I figured there must be something they could still be used for. Most were 6100 series PPC Macs, and can run Linux and might be useful as Linux experimental test beds. I knew I was probably never going to get around to installing Linux on them, and I have had them stacked...

I found the quote above while searching for answers to getting CUPS to work. In the past, I've usually become so frustrated with CUPS that I uninstall it and hunt down the lpr/lpd package and put it on my system. lpr works , and works quite well. I believe CUPS came about as part of the time honored tradition of "It ain't broke but I'm too lazy to read the instructions, I think I'll reinvent the wheel." After setting up my new server I quickly discovered I could no...