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Still alive
Not posting on here much, but I am stil alive and as far as I know healthy.
Week 4 (or 5) of work from home has started. I have left home about 8 times since that, once to get my work office chair. The old WIII has been set up in an effort to get some physical exercise.
Lessons learned:- Work from home boost productively significantly.
- Registry ( Read more... )
- Work from home boost productively significantly.
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Onkyo TX-NR509 - No sound
A few years back (2012? 2013?) I bought a modern amplifier to replace the old one which I inherited from my grandfather. I also changed from two audio boxes to a 5 speaker setup ( Read more... ) -
Mango curry thingy
Logging here so that I can remake this at a later time ( Read more... ) -
Raging against the machine.
Actually raging against Microsoft, and needing a place to vent ( Read more... ) -
Free hardware
I posted about some of this in the past, but unless someone react I am going to can the following:
1. Ancient desktop. P4 era. XP. Wioth 1.44MB FDD.
2. Asus E701 surf netbook.
3. (soon) Lenovo C3000 100 laptop
4. Core i7 920 on a X58 motherboard and 18GiB memory. Nehalems cooler. -
UEFI and DOA
In 2014 I ordered a laptop for my mother. At that time she was still using my Lenovo 3000 C100. The Lenovo was a beautiful laptop. 15" 1024x768 screen, up to 5½ half hours battery life. It had both wireless and bluetooth, a matt screen. It was perfect ( Read more... ) -
On work
i Might have gotten some good news today. My departmenthead is going to try to extend my contract by two months. That would make it the 8 or 9th temporarily contract.
Good parts:
- Yay, interesting work.
- Yay, decent paying work
- Yay, I got to see the thing I build go live (and can provide aftercare).
- And maybe it is the road to a next contract.
- Yay, interesting work.
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A triangle has 270 degrees - Non Euclidean fun
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Cooperative multiplaying
Earlier today I played betrayal at house on the hill. It is a cooperative multiplayer game. Which usually means that the game will try to kill you all or win in some other way and that you and the other players must work toghetter. The better you coordinate the easier it is to win.
In this game we also knew there was a traitor. So cooperative, but ( Read more... ) -
Buitenpoes
A decade ago my parents took in a cat which hung around the house (aka outside, aka outside cat). About a month ago he went to the vet for some teeth cleaning and they discovered a tumor beneath his tongue. Diagnoses cancer ( Read more... )