Category Archives: Computers
Updating your music collection with PowerShell
I’ve been banging my head against the wall on account of different music players which can’t play the subset of songs I have encoded as either Vorbis or AAC. So I’m slowly converting my entire music library over to MP3, … Continue reading
PXE booting OpenBSD on an ALIX via Ubuntu Live CD
Update: I’ve expanded the contents of this post into a full guide to running an OpenBSD router on an ALIX board. This is a quick guide to booting the OpenBSD installer on a PC Engines ALIX board with tinyBIOS (such … Continue reading
Advanced Kindle store search
I just found a great web site providing a better Kindle content search than what’s baked into Amazon: eReaderIQ.com. You can search by price, publication date, reading level, and whether the book you want is in the public domain, among … Continue reading
Microsoft Outlook ruins my evening
I had a funny experience yesterday. I don’t typically use Microsoft Outlook with my home email account. But it was bundled with the copy of Office 2010 that I installed a few months ago, and I figured: heck, if I … Continue reading
Chrome
This evening I had the chance to download Google’s newly-released (and by “released” I mean “beta”… hey, it’s Google) web browser, Chrome, and give it a try. They weren’t kidding when they said V8, the new JavaScript virtual machine in … Continue reading