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Archive for June, 2008


   Jun 26

AS/400 assembly with no hair net…

I was reading a recent article about the AS/400 turning 20, and while the article was good and all I noticed something equally important: the guy in the picture(click here) putting together one of the first AS/400’s isn’t wearing a hairnet!  Now, we all know hairnets at McDonalds are VERY important to getting a quality [...]

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   Jun 25

When Bill Gates hates his software lineage…

A user on midrange.com forums posted the following link which I thought was quite entertaining to read: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp
Made me feel like Bill Gates is more of a true technology person that I had made him out to be.  The poor guy has to give all those opening session type presentations where the software doesn’t work [...]

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   Jun 18

I am a music man… and I got a new toy

I play bass guitar with the local church group (www.trvc.org) and to date had been using an 80 watt keyboard amp as my method of making noise.  Needless to say it didn’t make a lot of noise while trying to keep up to a drummer on a set or the keyboard and guitarist.
So after doing [...]

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   Jun 16

RPG is not forgotten with Academic Initiative

I received an email from the IBM Academic Initiative this afternoon and immediately started clicking through the links to see if RPG was even mentioned in the courses being offered to educational institutions.  I was surprised to learn that they in fact DID remember RPG and its dominance in the “System i” (their verbiage, no [...]

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   Jun 10

Ubuntu: No resume image, doing normal boot

So I guess I will be doing more Linux (Ubuntu specifically) desktop posts because I now have Ubuntu as my primary desktop OS with Windows XP running virtually in VirtualBox.
My latest issue had to do with trying to get my audio working correctly so I could do Camtasia Studio recordings in VirtualBox. After changing [...]

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