2000–2001
493 posts
2001 337
December 2001
- Does God have to heal?
- Dave gets a movie rental card
- More on video editing
- I’m back again.
- Merry and Blessed Christmas to All…
- And justice for none.
- Attending my first (and maybe only) baby shower
- Some goodies for your CD burner
- Doughnuts and the Evil Internet Exploiter Empire
- More perspective on video editing
- Editing my second video…
- A nice Sunday surprise
- Editing video from DVD
- The limits of compassion
- History, from the R.P. perspective.
- I can’t figure out what to write about so I’ll write about everything I can think of.
- Not just a haircut…
- It was a high-stakes game, and I won.
- Ghosts from the past…
- I don’t think I’ll be telling that story today.
- Do I ever have a story…
- Christian snobbery
- The beginning of the end…
- Television, the drug of the nation
- Wrapping up a week…
- Desktop Linux and the truth about forking
November 2001
- Back again….
- What I didn’t do Wednesday night…
- Wintendo must go…
- Video insanity…
- It’s Thanksgiving.
- How to pad your resume while meeting chicks.
- But that’s just my opinion.
- Coming out of my cave
- Home again…
- Next up for my dining room… A TV studio.
- Odds and ends
- Fide et fortitudine
- My dark places
- Software stuff I forgot about
- Weeks in the making…
- Oh yeah. I have a Web site.
- An end and a beginning….
- Civ3: First Impressions
- Back to the old grind again.
- Recovery, Day 5.
October 2001
- Recovery, Day 3.
- Recovery.
- When bad things happen to good people…
- Telephones and World Series
- Linux and PC cubes
- Windows XP came out yesterday!?
- Country clubs revisited
- OK, OK, yeah, this is bugging me…
- Webshots and Weatherbug, away with you!
- Linux thin clients
- An easy DIY mailserver
- Short Shrift Thursday…
- A Linkfest for Wednesday
- Mail server successful!
- More of the same.
- Time to talk about big, manly computers
- More on writing…
- Memoirs of writing a book
- Evening prayer.
- A different Monday, but not much better…
- I said I wouldn’t work on my computers yesterday…
- And I passed the test…
- The beginning of an end (but I don’t know of what)
- Web browser troubleshooting
- It’s October…
September 2001
- Thirteen hours! Woo hoo!
- Slap-happy
- Worst practices for e-mail
- Nimda ate my weekend…
- Wrapping up the week with thoughts on oppression
- Is God punishing the United States of America?
- Anything for a distraction…
- The 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s: More alike than different
- Drag racing!
- Day Three after everything changed
- Head for the forums…
- Applying Ezekiel to 9/11
- Inside track on VIA vs. Intel
- Boycott Adobe… And your congressman.
- Mac upgrades the right way.
- September stress starts with a bang
- A nice Labor Day.
- Revisiting my childhood
- Dave goes shopping.
- I’m posting this from Linux because Windows lost my last post
August 2001
- Hey hey! Sorcerer Linux works
- Moodiness….
- Sorcerer, meet Squid. Squid, meet Sorcerer.
- Getting back into business…
- Troubleshooting a flaky PC
- Sorcerer: An easier way to get Linux your way
- Some day…
- What God has to say when someone in your familiy just died
- The only Internet chain letter that actually works
- Disappointment… Plus Linux vs. The World
- Hello again…
- I think I’m going to take a couple of days off again…
- Eliminating Flash ads
- If you didn’t compile it yourself, it’s not really yours.
- What are you gonna do with your life?
- When will this virus crap end?
- It’s Friday.
- Now.. Generations.
- Let the revolution begin…
- All day I couldn’t wait ’til Tuesday…
- It’s Monday. Have a day.
- Weekend adventures and Low-profile PCs
- Tough day yesterday.
- Friday hodgepodge.
- Building 98 boxes
July 2001
- Optimizing Linux. Part 1 of who-knows-what
- Back in the swing of things
- I’m gonna get in trouble… (Or: Why I believe in angels)
- Absenteeism
- Computer stuff will be back soon…
- A remote administration Unix trick
- First jobs and masks
- Linkfest.
- Lightning storm last night…
- On politics…
- Yesterday’s highlight
- Long day.
- Solving a perplexing slowdown problem
- Building a Squid server
- Spammers must die… And it’s possible their enterprises will. With your help.
- A flair for the dramatic
- Baseball Mogul 2002 offers a glimpse of the future…
- Setting up Freesco for port forwarding
- A breakthrough…
- Who is GenX?
- Two vendors you can count on
- Airshows, photography and Linux routing
- Where did we come from?
- Port forwarding with Linux
- Monday, 2 July 2001
- Some downtime yesterday…
June 2001
- Getting in touch with my feminine side
- Microsoft lives to see another day
- Failures (of the modern man).
- Fare thee well, Alpha…
- What can I say about Tuesday…?
- Odds and ends to start the week
- E-scape from the Hotel California…
- Finding an open-source alternative to Ghost
- Minesweeper is murder.
- End of a long day
- I’m back.
- I’m taking a couple of days off.
- Odds and ends
- Why am I afraid of heights?
- Building a Win95 box
- Ugh. I’m finally home.
- Conspiracies, conspiracies everywhere
- Back behind the camera again
- Building a dual-boot W2K/Mandrake 8 box
- Ugh. I just got home.
- Things I learn at work
- One way to defeat spammers
- The new server is live.
- Two chipsets from the AMD front
- I want to go live with the new server…
- What the press doesn’t want to tell you about Kaycee
- SPAM from Macromedia regarding Flash; Neatgear NICs; Crash course
- Bringing the Duron forward
- Look out City, Suburban Boy’s coming to visit!
- No, this is still the old server.
- We can’t give hackers anything else to work with
May 2001
- More TurboLinux
- Blame Dubya!
- Memorial Day in St. Louis
- How to get mod_gzip working on your Linux/Apache server
- Building up a new Linux server
- Memorial Day: Thank a vet
- Two good Weblogging sites
- Dinner and network troubleshooting
- SiS rises from the ashes, and tries to bring AMD and DDR with it
- Integrity and fiction on the Web
- An untrustworthy vendor
- Fun with gasoline… Wait, that sounds bad. How to save gasoline.
- An evening with my one true love
- Speeding up the Computer
- I feel this sudden urge to prove I really exist…
- Christianity that annoys me
- My Duron: It’s alive! It’s alive!
- Building my Duron
- It’s just about upgrade time.
- A small favor…
- Kaycee has passed on…
- School’s out, school’s out!
- Classes are for appeasing middle management.
- Hello from the land of great barbecue
- Windows and Outlook
- Short takes
- Who was the most influential woman in your life?
- Just the bang, and the clatter, as the server hits the wall
- PCNation.com: Absolutely not recommended
- Deja vu all over again
- Dual AMD processors, coming soon definitely maybe
- The return of Superbachelor
- One of my favorite bands makes a comeback
- CD’s; Duron deal; Journal site; Cheap nic; DMA problem;
- Craig Mundie’s infamous speech
- Randomness for Sunday
- Just added: More Like This
- It’s time for Tony Muser to hit the road
- And we’re registered!
- R.I.P.: Free Brightmail
- So Dave, how do I use this site?
- Treat wrist pain naturally
April 2001
- How I set up Greymatter for Weblogging
- Time to come clean
- Two phone calls, one weird, one sad
- 04/29/2001
- Do you believe in miracles?
- 04/28/2001
- 04/27/2001
- 04/26/2001
- 04/25/2001
- 04/24/2001
- Tiny assembly language Windows utilities
- 04/22/2001
- Tips on buying cases
- 04/20/2001
- 04/19/2001
- 04/18/2001
- 04/17/2001
- 04/16/2001
- 04/15/2001
- 04/14/2001
- 04/13/2001
- 04/12/2001
- 04/11/2001
- Troubleshooting a Mac SCSI drive
- 04/09/2001
- 04/08/2001
- 04/07/2001
- 04/06/2001
- 04/04/2001
- 04/03/2001
- A sysadmin’s take on bloatware
- 04/01/2001
March 2001
- 03/31/2001
- 03/30/2001
- 03/29/2001
- 03/28/2001
- A free memory tester and a Linux tip
- The battle against the blinky Web
- 03/25/2001
- Secrets about hard drive recovery and wiping
- 03/23/2001
- Playing with Squid
- 03/21/2001
- Experiments running old Mac software on a new Mac
- 03/19/2001
- 03/18/2001
- 03/17/2001
- 03/16/2001
- 03/15/2001
- 03/14/2001
- The search for the compressed ramdisk is over!
- 03/12/2001
- A CD burning linkfest
- Rare DOS disk utilities
- Monitor buying tips
- What to do with unexpected attachments
- 03/07/2001
- 03/06/2001
- 03/05/2001
- 03/04/2001
- 03/03/2001
- Troubleshooting intermittent PC problems
- Napster and the decline of copyright–part 3
February 2001
- Napster and the decline of copyright–part 2
- Napster and the decline of copyright–part 1
- 02/26/2001
- 02/25/2001
- Optimizing BIOSes and optimizing DOS
- Optimizing DOS and the BIOS, plus new iMacs
- Troubleshooting Mac extensions
- 02/21/2001
- 02/20/2001
- Open source and innovation
- Roll your own router with an old PC
- 02/17/2001
- 02/16/2001
- Early experiments in building gateways
- 02/14/2001
- 02/13/2001
- 02/12/2001
- 02/11/2001
- 02/10/2001
- 02/09/2001
- 02/08/2001
- 02/07/2001
- 02/06/2001
- 02/05/2001
- 02/04/2001
- 02/03/2001
- 02/02/2001
- 02/01/2001
January 2001
- 01/31/2001
- How to slow down Windows
- 01/29/2001
- 01/28/2001
- 01/27/2001
- 01/26/2001
- 01/24/2001
- 01/23/2001
- 01/22/2001
- 01/21/2001
- The AT’s coming out of retirement
- 01/19/2001
- 01/18/2001
- 01/17/2001
- 01/16/2001
- 01/15/2001
- 01/14/2001
- 01/13/2001
- 01/12/2001
- 01/11/2001
- 01/10/2001
- 01/09/2001
- 01/08/2001
- 01/07/2001
- 01/06/2001
- 01/05/2001
- 01/04/2001
- 01/03/2001
- 01/02/2001
- Plextor bargains, and Year 2000 in review
- 01/01/2001
2000 156
December 2000
- Name-brand memory vs. generic
- 12/30/2000
- 12/29/2000
- 12/28/2000
- 12/27/2000
- Are we talking about more than just sunsets?
- 12/25/2000
- 12/24/2000
- 12/23/2000
- 12/22/2000
- 12/21/2000
- 12/20/2000
- 12/19/2000
- 12/18/2000
- 12/17/2000
- 12/16/2000
- 12/15/2000
- 12/14/2000
- 12/13/2000
- 12/12/2000
- 12/11/2000
- 12/10/2000
- 12/09/2000
- 12/08/2000
- 12/07/2000
- 12/06/2000
- 12/05/2000
- 12/04/2000
- 12/03/2000
- 12/02/2000
- 12/01/2000
November 2000
- Make a Power Mac 7200 feel like a G4
- A Mac Norton Antivirus tip
- Published again
- Upgrading by downgrading
- Computer buying advice
- Running something other than Windows is theft
- Optimizing a K6-2
- HappyThanksgiving, 2000 edition
- Boot multiple operating systems for free
- Pentium 4 performance is precedented
- Impressions of Windows Me
- Spinrite, Mac troubleshooting, and elections
- Impressions of Netscape 6
- A retraction, and a t-shirt saying
- Windows keyboard tricks
- Mouse cursor troubleshooting
- Christmas presents you want, and don’t want
- 486s and Amigas and emulators, oh my
- How to write a book
- The joy of teaching
- An Optimizing Windows followup?
- Windows NT on hardware it has no business on
- Mail. voting, and recovery
- 11/06/2000
- How to get noticed: Get sued
- Apple. you call this tech support?
- AMD, hoaxes, and trends
- Mac mice, PC data recovery
- Publishing again, and Unix holy wars
October 2000
- 10/31/2000
- 10/30/2000
- Scanner troubleshooting secrets
- 10/28/2000
- 10/27/2000
- 10/26/2000
- Abandoned intellectual property
- 10/24/2000
- 10/23/2000
- 10/22/2000
- Busy day, accomplishing nothing
- 10/21/2000
- Mac data recovery
- Praying about depression, and a common Mac no-no
- Fun with electricity
- Mailbag
- A tough question, and an answer
- Hardware mailbag for Sunday
- AMD’s turnaround
- Mac “superiority” and cheap PC hardware sources
- Corrections from Wednesday
- Wednesday mailbag
- Mac emulation and insights
- Fixing stuff, computer and recording-related
- A nice Internet utility
- Fixing Win9x with bootlog.txt
- Amiga influence on Linux
- Hardware developments
- Windows optimization trick
- Changing CPU priorities in Windows 95/98/Me
- Mail on modems
- Integrating Windows and Linux, fornever and ever
September 2000
- Monotonous songwriting
- Binary file editing and hardware compatibility
- Modems, voice recognition and video cards
- More impressions of NaturallySpeaking
- First impressions of NaturallySpeaking 5
- NaturallySpeaking arrives, plus W2K hardware compatibility issues
- Brightmail, plus voice recognition
- “Apple lost,” Steve Jobs says
- Sound card and hard drive troubleshooting
- Sounds cards, hard drives, and initial dual G4 impressions
- Western Digital hard drives
- Phone shopping
- Babble, NaturallySpeaking, and Windows Utility Suites
- Computer ethics
- Personality profiling
- Tongue-tied
- Aging ungracefully
- Optimizing Windows questions from readers
- Voice recognition
- Busting ads
- eMachine upgrade advice
- Protecting your privacy online
- Comeback trail marred by junk browsers
August 2000
June 2000
- Father’s Day and wrist injuries
- MP3s won’t kill the music industry
- Trustworthy consulting
- BIOS tweaking leads to successful Linux install
- Supplements help ailing wrists
- Nursing my wrists back to health
May 2000
- Killing a process in Unix
- Upgrades, remedies and a diagnosis
- Using math to find new music
- Putting the squeeze play on Linux
- A lean, mean word processor for Windows
- How compliments and criticisms affect relationships
- Linux memory requirements
- LoveLetter is just a symptom of worse things to come
- Stand up the RIAA and use MP3.com
- Optimizing Windows climbs the charts in Canada
- Dave’s rules for safe e-mail usage
- LoveLetter ruins my day
- Selecting a mass storage medium
- Fixing Outlook address book problems
- Troubleshooting Windows keyboard shortcuts
April 2000
- An easy firewall for Linux
- Identifying the motherboard in a mystery system
- Why Linus Torvalds is more popular than RMS
- What to do when defrag won’t finish
- A freeware (GPL) boot manager
- Optimizing Windows startup
- Force Windows 95 or 98 to a certain refresh rate
- Forever a senior
- Windows NT profile weirdness: A cure?
- Overclocking Pentium-75s
- Macintosh buying advice
- Victory over a cantankerous Pentium-75
- Attempting to optimize Windows with explicit paths
- Ultra-useful Windows and DOS utilities (plus Linux stuff)
- Refurbishing a Pentium-75