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Mmmm… butter
I was eating dinner in a restaurant recently. Picked up a little single-serving packet of butter. It says “If you have any questions about this product, call 1-866-xxx-xxxx.” Ron: (dial dial dial) Operator: Butter help line. This call may be monitored for quality-control purposes. How may I help you? Ron: Yeah, I have a question.…
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Strange Noises in the Basement
I have just updated my Music page, removing the links to a bunch of our crappier stuff, and adding a whole lot of good new material that was recorded over the last year. We’re getting better, I think, at making shorter pieces (where short means around 7 minutes… at least it’s better than 20.) I…
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Keyboard war has ended
And I have lost. I am convinced now that there is a very powerful conspiracy working deep within the computer industry, seeking to ensure that I can never, ever assemble a working system including a keyboard with media extensions, wireless mouse, and a KVM switch. The key players in this conspiracy are Microsoft, Logitech, and…
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New keyboard struggles
Since I got the hot new AMD Athlon64 system going, I thought I should think about getting one of those “multimedia” keyboards, with the volume controls, etc. One requirement I had, thought at first I just took it for granted, was that the keyboard had to work through my KVM switch. It’s an inexpensive automatic…
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Harmony 628 revisited
I had to exchange the Harmony 628 I bought last week. The LCD contrast just kept fading in and out all the time. Usually out, the point of being completely unreadable. Costco exchanged it for me, no problem at all. The new unit is working perfectly. Since Harmony saves all your programming and preferences on…