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I did some looking at my main PC and found that some of its capacitors appear to have blown. I have a box on order with some new ones…hopefully after I replace the bad ones, things will work better! (As long as I don’t mess it up with my soldering iron…)

If A is success in life, then A=x+y+z. x is work; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
– Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

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I’ve got the Internet sharing working on the new computer, now all I have to figure out is what I did to allow my other computers to see futuredesigns.org. Because it’s on a computer inside the network, the web proxy and firewall get confused. But, I’m really close. Now to find what’s wrong with my [...]

I got the firewall computer kernel to compile, so now I can finish setting it up. Yeah! I ended up putting the 512Mb DIMM from my main PC in it so that it wouldn’t have any excuse that it didn’t have enough memory.
I’ve got most of the programs installed. Just have to set their [...]

I went to Computer Renaissance yesterday and got a 6Gb hard drive for $19.00. Not too bad. I also checked Eagle Micro to see if they had any smaller drives for an inexpensive price…nope. But I was talking with one of the guys there who made an interesting suggestion: Get an IDE to Compact Flash [...]

I’ve been working for the last several weeks to fix my high-end PC and set up a Gentoo Linux computer to act specifically as a firewall. My PC was running okay for a long time but when I got back from the International Conference, it was locked up. In the process of working on it, [...]