It turns out that most PC power supply units with active power factor correction (PFC) do not work well with lower-cost uninterrupted power supplies (UPS), e.g. battery back-ups. This I learned the hard way, as my Antec EarthWatts EA 500 PSU, which I adore, will go dead the second the battery on my APC Back-UPS [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Musings category.
Some Quick Housekeeping
Today, I cleared out all blog entries here that aren’t related to programming; that included about 60 posts on eBay vendors I’ve used in the past, as well as probably another 30 posts about music, football and the like.
I want this blog to focus on programming, business practices and other profession-based posts. Besides, that stuff [...]
Blog Update: New Anti-Spam Plugin May Block Legitimate Comments
As this blog has gotten more popular and, as a result, started ranking well with Google, the spamming here has become incessant — to the point where faithful, reliable, old Akismet alone isn’t good enough.
Akismet has caught nearly 16,000 spam comments here in just under three years, and only accidentally labeled three comments as spam [...]
Yahoo! Account Deleted; But I Do Miss Its News Aggregation
I decided to delete my Yahoo! account today, rather than on July 15, as previously noted.
It appears everyone has pretty much switched over to my new gmail address (at least, the non-spammers have made the switch), and in all honesty, I see no more reason to stick around on Yahoo!.
Well, that’s not entirely true. [...]
Free Books, Just For The Asking
I’m clearing my bookshelves and have four books that I was planning to trash (since the local library doesn’t want them). Then I thought, what the heck, give ‘em away on the blog.
So, forthwith, I have the following four books available:
Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual (1998 Edition): This is a reference book used [...]
Goodbye To Yahoo! Answers: It’s Best We Part
Yahoo! suspended my Answers account today, for reasons they did not disclose but of which I am fairly certain.
I made the mistake a few weeks back of calling out a sock puppeteer via e-mail, after about a month of his using his puppets to vote down my answers and vote up his. I noted that [...]
