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2007 February

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Don’t You Just Love Puppies?

We’ve been having fun with myspace.com this week.   The statistics on our new web host tells us the URL’s which link or refer to our website and a few days ago I noticed that there were some myspace URLs on the list.   I tracked them down and found that four myspace users were […]

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“It’s Alive!” or “Living the Dream”

For months I’ve been accumulating the parts for a PC based home recording studio.   Before I started I posted questions to my LUG and did hours of research on google.   It’s a one GHz Athlon system with a GB of RAM, a 4.3 GB hard drive for the Operating System, a 120 GB […]

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Linux and Older Hardware

One of the things I like most about Linux is it’s ability to surprise me.   A few months back I tried Xubuntu 6.06 on a 500 MHz Celeron system and just couldn’t get it to run.   Recently a friend gave me some old motherboards and one of them had a 400 MHz Celeron […]

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eCommerce for the Masses, Part II, Selling on eBay

When one of our friends asked us about selling things on eBay my wife quipped "If you’d rather see it go away than throw it away you won’t be disappointed" and I’ve been repeating that to people ever since.   While it’s true that you can make money selling things on eBay it’s equally true […]