Ken Newquist My wireless hub – a Netgear MR814 Cable/DSL Wireless Router – arrived on Thursday, and I finally got a chance to play around with it today. So far, things are not going well. First, my internet connection has been acting wacky the last 24 hours or so. Maybe it had something to do with the … Read more
Big baby milestone today – we had our first Lamaze class. The first thing I learned was that it’s really important to eat before class – it starts at 7 and I foolishly drove there straight from work without grabbing anything to eat. The class has about ten couples in it, and it felt a … Read more
My PC’s in its golden years. It’s a Pentium III 450 MHz machine with 384 meg of ram. It’s adequate for word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail and some Web editing, but its days as a glorious gaming machine are rapidly fading into distant memory. I can’t afford a new one just yet, so I’ve been looking … Read more
I took the plunge last night, and ordered a wireless hub (by Netgear) and an Airport card (by Apple) in an effort to finally go wireless at home. The nifty new Apple Airport Extreme wireless hub is neat — it supports the blazing fast IEEE 802.11g wireless standard, and is a reasonable $199 (as opposed … Read more
A new virus allegedly called “WTC Survivor” virus allegedly threatens to turn victims computers into a digital disaster by deleting dynamic link libraries. Fortunately it’s a hoax, albeit one in very bad taste. Here’s the original e-mail: Date Collected: 3/21/2002 “BIGGGG TROUBLE !!!! DO NOT OPEN “WTC Survivor” It is a virus that will erase … Read more
Bill Gates is a very, very rich man. Perhaps wealthier than many of us could imagine, but even with all of his money, not even Bill Gates could afford to give everyone on the net a share of his fortune. Yet that’s exactly what a hoax that’s been circulating the net for decades (well, in … Read more
Not to long ago, I updated a hoax about killer South American spiders that were allegeldy infesting airplanes as well as a certain restaurant in Chicago. That very same hoax has now mutated, and shows all the signs of becoming a truly enduring urban legend. You can read about the original hoax here; to learn about … Read more
Today I had the unfortunate pleasure to have to download and install Netscape Communicator 4.06, a browser which I have loathed since its release back in 1998. As a browser, the Netscape 4.x was slow, buggy and prone to screwing up perfectly coded Web pages, and the damn thing was barfing over one of the … Read more
I got my latest issue of Dragon yesterday and discovered its section dedicated to a “countdown” to the revised edition of D&D, which is supposed to be released this summer. The new release includes revisions and tweaks based on customer feedback, rules integrated from the various handbooks, and about 25% new material. I’m ambivalent about … Read more
It must be some kind of record … at least for the Newquists. Our Christmas tree is down and it’s only January 13. It seems strange not to have it in the library any more — it’s something of a tradition in my family to keep the tree up until at least the third week … Read more