Subway Good, Bus – Bad
I am composing this entry on my blackberry device wile riding the D train. The conductor of this particular train is pretty distinctive – he announces all station with the intonations of a professional...
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WML: Dude, I Am Getting a Dell
Guess what? This post is going to be about microcomputers. PCs. I never owned a computer in the Soviet times. Not even a programmable calculator. I did have access to some old Wang clones called Iskra...
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Soviet Voodoo
Oooof. Finally fixed a rather nasty bug that was depressing me most of last week. This and a nice little poem by reminded me about a few superstitions of my childhood. There was no subway in Odessa,...
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I have not had any problems with Windows 2000 for years. Until the last couple of months. One of the patches must have done something to the crispy crunchy goodness that is Windows graphics code. Since...
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WML : Mr. Squeek No More
Here’s yet another edition of WML – What Michael Learned. And the subject of today’s post is one of the things that I hate as much as I love hardwood parquet floors – squeaks. In SAT-speak I am...
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WML : Fasteners Are Engineer’s Best Friend
While we are on the subject of screws, here’s another thing that I learned about fasteners. As any know-it-all who pays attention to things like that I looked up why screws with what we called...
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What Up
The following will probably be only interesting to people who build their own computers (and probably not even them), so feel free to skip this post. My little Shuttle XPC computer gave up the ghost...
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Deadprogrammer visits Odessa : Part I : Introduction
I live on a high floor of an art deco tower facing a busy Brooklyn street. The acoustics of the building and the street are such that I can sometimes hear what’s going on in the street right from my...
View ArticleSubway Good, Bus – Bad
I am composing this entry on my blackberry device wile riding the D train. The conductor of this particular train is pretty distinctive – he announces all station with the intonations of a professional...
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WML: Dude, I Am Getting a Dell
Guess what? This post is going to be about microcomputers. PCs. I never owned a computer in the Soviet times. Not even a programmable calculator. I did have access to some old Wang clones called Iskra...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Soviet Voodoo
Oooof. Finally fixed a rather nasty bug that was depressing me most of last week. This and a nice little poem by reminded me about a few superstitions of my childhood. There was no subway in Odessa,...
View ArticleSome Microsoft Poetry
I have not had any problems with Windows 2000 for years. Until the last couple of months. One of the patches must have done something to the crispy crunchy goodness that is Windows graphics code. Since...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WML : Mr. Squeek No More
Here’s yet another edition of WML – What Michael Learned. And the subject of today’s post is one of the things that I hate as much as I love hardwood parquet floors – squeaks. In SAT-speak I am...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WML : Fasteners Are Engineer’s Best Friend
While we are on the subject of screws, here’s another thing that I learned about fasteners. As any know-it-all who pays attention to things like that I looked up why screws with what we called...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Up
The following will probably be only interesting to people who build their own computers (and probably not even them), so feel free to skip this post. My little Shuttle XPC computer gave up the ghost...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Deadprogrammer visits Odessa : Part I : Introduction
I live on a high floor of an art deco tower facing a busy Brooklyn street. The acoustics of the building and the street are such that I can sometimes hear what’s going on in the street right from my...
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