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Condo is gone

Hey hey kids, the condo is officially gone!  The new owners closed yesterday, so no more double mortages or stress about when and if the piece o’ crap would sell.  I am so happy to be rid of that dump.  My advice to everyone is never buy a fricken condo.  They suck.  Loud, smelly, and have too many rules.  The association was a bunch of pricks and the assesment was too high.  They have over 160,000 in the bank and could not change the beaten 20 year old carpet in the hall ways.  I love my house, there is nothing like it in the world.  I hope the American Dream can still become a reality when the next generation comes along.  I should be able to actually update the site more often , now that that monkey is off our backs.

 

Posted by on September 23, 2004 in General Comments

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Got a new toy!

Well, my wife surprised me with a new Sharp Zaurus SL-6000.  It is the most amazing hand held computer I have ever seen.  The screen is so sharp you can’t even make out the individual pixels.  640×480 on a 4″ diagonal screen is just undescribeable.  It makes up for, what I felt, were the weaknesses of the SL-5500 (which has served me well):

Short battery life, the SL-6000 has 5 times the life.

No integrated wireless, the SL-6000 has 802.11b built in.

No integrated speaker/microphone, the SL-6000 has both.

Dim screen, the new screen is bright and sharp.

As I discover the in’s and out’s I will update the Blog.

 

Posted by on August 30, 2004 in General Comments, Zaurus

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Still Alive

Been a while since I have blogged.  Owning a new (old) house can really keep you busy.  Redid the kitchen, changed all the faucets in the house, and innumerable other things, but the place looks great.  It is nothing like owning a condo, in all the good ways.  I will keep everyone updated when I start building my arcade machine and any other fun technological stuff.

 

Posted by on July 26, 2004 in General Comments

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Updates

Well, lots happening here.
Closed and moved into our house.  It is even better than I thought it would be.  So much quieter than the condo.
Condo is still not sold.

Updated my computer to Mandrake 10.0 Official.  Very nice, and much snappier with the new 2.6 kernel.  Also, Tiffany had me install Mandrake on her laptop instead of Wincrash XP.  The 4 times daily virus alerts and constant security updates were too much.  There were a few security updates to Mandrake 10, but, it was painless and did not need a reboot.

In the house, put a new roof on, replaced the kitchen faucet, hung many pictures, and the house is looking good so far.  Well, time to get back to work.  Laters

 

Posted by on June 10, 2004 in General Comments

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Computer is alive again

I had a hard drive fail on my computer (1 of 3).  It contained a good chunk of my operating system and my home directory.  Well, everything is back to normal now, and I have a new 160g drive, giving me just over a quarter terabyte of storage.  It did have trouble installing a newer version of Mandrake Linux, so I just put 9.1 back on there and it works fine.  Only 6 more days until we close on our new house.

 

Posted by on May 21, 2004 in Linux

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