After a normal restart yesterday, my Aspire One booted into just a black screen. No POST, no BIOS, no hard drive light activity, just the power button LED on and the fan running fast. I was not very happy…
I went to the Acer Aspire One User Forum and started looking thru the Hardware section. I [...]
Touchpads drive me crazy! Fortunately, Acer was kind (and smart) enough to make Fn + F7 toggle it on & off. And, as an added bonus, this also works in Puppy Linux 4.1.2 retro k2.6.21.7!
If I could see better, or had taken the time to read the manual, I may have discovered this on day [...]
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I’ve had a lot of .pdf files to read recently and thought pretty seriously about buying a Kindle so I could carry them around with me. But, after a little research, and some thought, it looked like viewing .pdf’s on a Kindle was iffy at best and potentially a PITA if I had to convert [...]
The first video from the DayCon 2008 PACKETWARS game is up at YouTube!
This was my first year volunteering at DayCon / PACKETWARS and it was a blast! Lots of hard work and long days, but I’m ready to do it again.
Check out the video & PACKETWARS.com for upcoming games, more videos and news.
It’s that time of year again – time to find a printable calendar for 2009. I should have done this months ago, but I didn’t.
My all time favorite for planning purposes is David Seah’s Compact Calendar: Click here to go to his site, read the philosophy behind “The Candy Bar Theory of Calendar Design” and download. [...]