Monthly Archives: December 2010

Replacing bad motherboard capacitors

Now, this is a problem that likely won’t affect you if you either replace your PC every 2 years, or don’t use it very often. However, if you’re like me and build your machines to specs that’ll set you for five years, and then keep them on 100% CPU load 247 for those 5 years (thank you, […]

Useful Unix Units: Screen (part 1)

Ok children, time to learn about screen, one of the most useful little Unix tools available today. First, let me get this straight: I don’t believe in the ‘one OS to rule them all’ crap. Horses for courses, and for server work, my horse rides a command line FreeBSD install. Digression: I’ve never much seen […]

Logging the backlog

Well, Itsacon’s Log is officially overhauled. For the old registered users, the old website parts are (for now) still available at the familiar links. I’ve imported the old ‘cats’ log into the new site, my photography experiments are mostly over at my Tripodplaces log and everything else was either unfinished or crap, and was ditched.