Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category

We have electricity!

Sunday, May 9th, 2021

From the sun!

This may seem strange, but we had 16 photovoltaic panels attached to our roof since January, but they were not connected to our electrical system so they just sat there generating electricity for no good reason. It is assumed that the pandemic caused a shortage in competent workmen to finish the job and there was real fears that the installing company did not follow the city rules. Of course, when the permit was up for renewal, the company sent a crack team to fix what needed to be fixed and now we are currently getting current from the sun. (We don’t know exactly how much energy was a getting because the idiots forgot to attach the WiFi antenna to the WiFi card.

iPad testing: XML-RPC Enabled

Friday, June 22nd, 2012

I just loaded the WordPress App on my iPad.

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The Above is a snapshot from the iPad screen that was saved in the iPad photo library. Expect more of this next month during the feast of the RAGBRAI.

Geeks for good

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

What do geeks eat?

Pizza and Dew!

and motherboards for snacks!

It’s a Geek get-together to help out needy computer users!

Non-GUI screens do not scare these geeks!

and hardware upgrades are no sweat!

Multitasking? No problemo!

A room full of computers that needed hardware and software upgrades were joined with a group of computer geeks to form the first meeting of  the Fort Collins concept of “Geeks for Good” at the ELTC.  It was more fun than a barrel of Cheetos® !