Monthly Archives: May, 2008
*NIX
I was asked today by a recruiter which versions of UNIX I was familiar with, and this got me thinking. It seems that through my whole IT career, I’ve never worked on a mainstream release of UNIX – only derivatives! It started at college with MINIX – a scaled down version that was released in [...]
My PC is Reborn….!
Finally – I’m back online! It wasn’t as easy as I’d (naively) expected though…! It started with my ‘budget’ case which didn’t have enough screw-in posts for the new Intel motherboard. No problem though – I simply stole some from the old case. Then, one of the screws jammed in the post and wouldn’t screw [...]
BANG!
I’m writing this post from my wife’s laptop, as my PC just died! All I did was shut it down, which it appeared to do normally, just at the last moment, there was an almighty bang and a smell of burned electrical components! At this stage, I suspect the power supply, but I’m concerned that [...]
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