Voice Recognition? Kinda hard . . . .

Ok I decided yet an foray into speech-to-text software.  I am seeing what exactly I can just do with it and honestly, the idea of being a poor man’s Tony Stark is just too cool to pass up.  Well, I guess his commands are like “computer, reconfigure titanium actuator motors” and mine would just be […]

DNS-343 How To Copy Drive to Drive Faster

The time came this week when I decided to replace my aging 500GB drives with something bigger and newer so I purchased two 2TB drives for about $95 a piece and started the task of dropping them into my NAS server planning for my usual mirrored configuration.  I’m concerned with long term redundant storage on […]

Adobe Aliasing Alarm with Text!

Something was puzzling me quite a bit as I tried to make some logo’s for some sites.  I was working in an older version of Adobe Photoshop, mostly because it gives me what I need at my remedial level but also because I haven’t converted all my currency to gold so I could afford the […]

How I Yearn For The Good Old Days

I’ve been talking with recruiters as the economy has picked up a bit and there’s something different that has happened in the last few years.   Notably, its the treatment that we the developers get when trying to do business with these salespeople.  The treatment has become very much more poor, almost abusive, in many ways.  […]

DNS-343 USB Printer Hookup Demystified

I’ve had beautiful DLink DNS-343 NAS server for a few years now and I love it.  It takes four drives, currently I have two 500 gb drives mirrored and two 1 tb drives mirrored.  Everything goes on them, gets backed up, etc.  Hook it up to the local router box and it just runs, dammit.  […]