Posted in Misc on Apr 9th, 2008
I just installed a KVM switch to share a Keyboard, Video and Mouse among several computers. Specifically, an ATEN CS1734B, a 4 port switch that also permits sharing of USB and audio peripherals.
Ahh, your Hitler box
said the lady of the house when I described it. A Master of The Universe (MOTU) I could understand, though I am not such an exalted person, but Hitler?
My old KVM switch, which she seemed to have forgotten about (or perhaps never noticed), had died en route from the tropics. As result, I have had two keyboards, mice and monitors on my desk for my Vista and Linux computers for the least year or so.
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Posted in Misc on Apr 7th, 2008
This time next week I will be in Sicily — an MBA trip with a side order of good food and la dolce vita. I might have preferred a non-Italian destination, therefore, for dinner this evening, but only a churl would deny a 17 year old her choice of restaurant on her birthday.
So, we went [...]
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Posted in Misc on Apr 1st, 2008
According to The Times the greatest hoaxer ever was Horace de Vere Cole. Its own summary of his career makes only a discreet allusion to something shocking he did in public with a cow’s udder but you can read the gory details in the Dictionary of National Biography (link above). Compared to Horace the rest [...]
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