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dcantrell: Know Your Fireplace!

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Ranked #147 on Alta Vista in 1997! Tuesday, January 13, 2015. We used our fireplace for the first time last night. I've never lived in a place with a usable fireplace except the house where I grew up. Our new house has a fireplace, which we were both looking forward to using. Be sure to know the parts of your fireplace. The mantle. Is the shelf above the fireplace. Do not build a fire on the mantle. This is where you put your Aim n' Flame or matches (but probably shouldn't). The hearth. Now, before build...

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dcantrell: October 2014

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Ranked #147 on Alta Vista in 1997! Thursday, October 30, 2014. A Datsun, Really? Been trying a few different commute options lately because the road work for the MA-2/MA-2A "Crosby's Corner" project. Has been causing the road to change between the morning and evening. Seems like the risk for an accident is a little higher right now, plus it gets all clogged up as construction equipment and stupid people try to push their way through the mess. Years ago I used to commute north via I-93 out of Somerville.

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dcantrell: May 2014

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Ranked #147 on Alta Vista in 1997! Monday, May 19, 2014. What Is It Like to Have Some Form of Colorblindness. I've been colorblind my entire life and it's not really a severe problem, it just means some things will be more annoying to you than to other people. Coloring assignments in elementary school were annoying, as were really anything that required coloring. I read the labels on crayons and markers. I dislike those high intensity discharge headlamps that BMW and other manufacturers started using&#46...

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dcantrell: May 2015

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Ranked #147 on Alta Vista in 1997! Tuesday, May 12, 2015. It is 2015 and you can still access the Internet by dialing in via a modem. Find your nearest AOL. Http:/ access.web.aol.com/accessnum/. Yes, this is a real. Remember, dial-up Internet is free when you call from work. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. And We've Only Just Begun. A carnival of technology. Fresh Fish Served Daily. Picture Window template. Powered by Blogger.

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User:Dcantrel - FedoraProject

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I work for Red Hat in engineering. Most of my work involves working on Anaconda, the friendly and exciting installer for Fedora and RHEL. I also work on other things, such as. Turned over to Jiri Popelka), IPv6 stuff, disk partitioning, and other things. Nashua, New Hampshire. MailTo(dcantrell AT redhat DOT com)]. Dcantrell on #fedora and #anaconda. 8CB55649/213F 97EF 50AD 2D83 E8C3 9B85 E61B 238C 8CB5 5649. Http:/ www.burdell.org/. Basically anything involving anaconda.

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dcantrell: OMG! Expanded Polystyrene Foam Food Containers!

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Ranked #147 on Alta Vista in 1997! Monday, January 26, 2015. Expanded Polystyrene Foam Food Containers! In the 1980s would proudly serve you a Quarter Pounder. In an expanded polystyrene foam container. We, the lay people of the general public, would call this container styrofoam. Whenever we were asked what it was made of. We were technically incorrect, but no one cared. Is a registered trademark of Dow Chemical. Yes, the Dow with all the trademarks but not the Dow that tracks Wall Street. Lacks a fun n...

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dcantrell: June 2014

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Ranked #147 on Alta Vista in 1997! Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Sometimes You Just Want To Type Ředkvička. So it was time for a reinstall. After backing up data and rearranging where /home sits (wanted it on the largest physical disk), I started up the familiar installation program. In a short amount of time, I was up and running with a new RHEL-7 system. Now to configure it. I do not like the default terminal color scheme. I do not like the white background. Easy enough to change. Failed to install a GNOME...

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dcantrell: On Not So Old Computers

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Ranked #147 on Alta Vista in 1997! Monday, March 9, 2015. On Not So Old Computers. Maybe it really is an old system, but I still don't consider a system from 2005. To be that old. In particular, the Power Mac G5. The last workstation system from Apple. That used the PowerPC. Line of processors. Apple began a move to Intel processors. A had a Power Mac G4. Recently I picked up a dual processor G5 on eBay. Keyboards, mice, and LCD. The battery is used to back the NVRAM. Which stores settings for the firmwa...

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dcantrell: July 2014

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Ranked #147 on Alta Vista in 1997! Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Making Robots Harder To Kill. In researching robotics for the eventual War With The Machines, a team of scientists have successfully built a robot that can learn how to walk after losing one of its legs. Click here. We're already going to have zombies to deal with, now zombie robots. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Making Robots Harder To Kill. View my complete profile. And We've Only Just Begun. A carnival of technology. Fresh Fish Served Daily.