As if life wasn’t keeping me busy enough, one or more squirrels have invaded my mother-in-law’s attic. As my mother-in-law lives in an in-law apartment attached to my house, this is a concern.
A baby squirrel running amok in my mother-in-law’s kitchen clued us into the problem. Earlier today, I climbed up into her […]

This has been a tough couple of weeks. I thought last week was bad, but this week was rough enough to make me forget last week. Thank God it’s Friday. No shit.
I really can’t relate the scope of all that has happened in the past couple of weeks. Instead I can […]

I finally got around to using a Kill-a-Watt meter to measure energy usage for my Penguin Computing Linux workstation and my new Mac Mini. Jorden Mauro, a co-op who’s been working in my group for a few months now, helped out. We wound up using his MacBook Pro for additional comparisons for reasons […]

In case you couldn’t tell, Ticonderoga and Monadnock are the host names of my computers.  Good, strong New England names.
Anyway, I was so pleased with Ticonderoga’s transformation into a dual-boot development machine, that I decided to do the same with Monadnock. Except, I decided that I would also try to load Windows XP natively […]

As the Mac Pro is roughly $3000, I decided to buy a Mac Mini for ~$900 and use it at work as my primary development machine. Zoran provides its engineers with development machines, but they don’t update them. Frankly, they’re probably understaffed. However, they don’t allow us engineers to have “root” access […]