Items required:

Old Computer:

Asus A8V Deluxe socket 939 motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU
Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu CPU cooler

New components:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ CPU
Zalman CNPS9500-AM2 CPU cooler (will not actually be used)

Supplies:

Arctic Silver brand Ceramique thermal compound
Packaged wipes with 90% isopropyl alcohol
Latex gloves, powder-free

Tools:

Philips screwdriver

Environment:

Cluttered work surface
Inadequate lighting
Screw-absorbent carpeting

This is just a minor release to fix build problems.  Two missing semicolons were added to src/kmly.y because some versions of Bison complained about them.  The GDK initialization in src/str2png.c was replaced with GObject initialization, so that str2png doesn’t require an X server to be present at Nonpareil build time.
There is no change to the [...]

On Friday we did the lab on ion exchange reactions, Saturday morning we had the midterm, and Saturday afternoon we did the lab on enthalpy of reactions.  I did well in three semesters of high school chemistry, but that was more than two decades ago, and I didn’t feel like I remembered much of it.  [...]

I recently decided to upgrade my desktop computer from an Athlon 64 3500+ (socket 939) to an Athlon 64 X2 4800+, so that left me with an extra socket 939 CPU. From time to time I’ve wanted a portable non-laptop computer, so I purchased a Shuttle ST20G5 barebone system, along with disk drives and [...]

Something reminded me of a silly prank from Lakewood Junior High School. Ms. Marone, who taught English classes and the Gifted and Talented class, had managed to get the school to buy a brand new Commodore PET 2001 computer. Prior to that, we could only use a computer by going to the high [...]

Just as The Daily Show has been found to be as substantive as network news, The Onion is as substantive as traditional newspapers.  Case in point:  the Onion’s coverage of the North Korean nuclear test.

Boing Boing links to a story in National Geographic about “gangs” of baboons invading homes in suburban South Africa to raid refrigerators. Some people want to protect the animals; others want them removed or killed.
I think a better article would be written from the point of view of the baboons:
“Gangs” of Hairless Apes are [...]

I’ve often wished that GDB would let me single-step backwards as easily as it can go forwards.  Now UndoDB, a commercial addon to GDB, allows exactly that.
It’s not Free Software (or Open Source).  If you’re only going to use it for non-commercial purposes, you can get a MAC address locked copy at no charge.  Otherwise [...]

For only $1.65 billion!

One of my friends decided to undergo rejuvenation treatments, which would revert his physiological age to 18.  However, the process also would erase all his memories of events that happened after that age.  Since I didn’t meet him until he was 20, he would no longer remember me.  He warned me about that, and told [...]