The attempt: to send a message from one computer to another for the first time ever. A test of the newly developed DARPAnet.
The message sent: “L O G”.
The message received: “L O ” and then the network connection crashed.
The article doesn’t say, but I imagine this happened next.
The outcome: They sat on hold waiting for a representative from the cable company to answer their call because the call was important to the cable company. After 45 minutes, someone finally came on and in a bored sounding voice asked them to turn the router off and on again.
I’m in the middle of backups and all sorts of year-end (a bit late) stuff.
Gina Trapani over at Smarterware has some good advice about Gmail maintenance.
Make sure your account recovery options are set properly. If the email you give is inactive or broken, you’ll never be able to reset a password. If your security question is wrong, or you’ve forgotten the answer, you’re stuck if you ever want help with GMail.
For better or for worse, we introduced the kids to Rayman’s Raving Rabbids on the wii. A slightly irreverent game at times (burping contests, spitting accuracy contests, flatulence rockets…) it’s nonetheless a whole lot of fun. Or maybe it’s fun because of the burping contests, spitting accuracy contests and flatulence rockets. Whatever.
Anyway, the subgames my kids like best are the music ones. They play along to “Satisfaction”, “Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag”. “Celebration” and “Funkytown” in the RRR version of Rock Band. I love it when my 10 year old walks around the house singing the guitar riffs from some of my favorite songs. They also love to follow the dance moves to songs like “Wake Me Up (Before You Go Go)”.
MrSnowy and MrsAsh were over, and the girls convinced us to do some dancing. The wives just watched and laughed and documented the occasion for posterity.
You do know that you can click, hold down the button and drag to select text a character at a time.
But didjaknow…
You can double click on a word, and it selects the whole word. You can also double click on a word, hold the button down after the second click, then drag your mouse and select more whole words at a time.
You can triple click to select a whole paragraph. Triple click, hold the button on the third click and drag to select whole paragraphs at a time.
If you have anything critical on them, make sure you make multiple copies. Check your copies every year and make a new copy on new blanks, so one of your disks will likely stay good. Put them on hard drives (a terabyte, 1000gig, drive is now under $150) and keep them in your computer, where you can get alerts on potential drive failures. Encrypt them and upload them to a web server somewhere.
Just be aware that nearly 20% of CDs recorded 10 years ago are corrupt. 7% of disks recorded in 2002 are corrupt, but nearly 20% of them are difficult to read or partially corrupt.
They don’t last forever, and “Oh oh, I can’t read this one” is too late to do something about your baby photo backups.
This blog is a dump of great links I find while working on the net all day.
It *used* to be my personal blog, but the posts were getting lost among all of my weird links, so I moved my personal blog to Lego and Sawdust. Go there if you came here looking for woodworking, religion or family discussions.
I have left all the old posts here because the search engines bring lots of people. Any posts that aren't about weird links from the net will be on my other blog. Go there.
Because it's the source of most of my hits recently, here is a link to the "Faith" category of posts, where we discuss our recent decision to leave Christianity and the fallout that is occurring.
