Nothing lasts forever, especially in the realm of technology, and as much I hate to admit it even the items in my modest collection can, and sometimes will, give up the ghost and just become inert hunks of plastic, metal, and sometimes glass. That, however, will not happen without me putting up one hell of …
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Finally Getting My “Dream” Computer: The Mac Pro
Let’s move the Macintosh collecting time table to August of 2018. By this point I’d been deep-diving into the more recent vintage Macintosh machines for a few months and had in my possession the 3 2007 iMac systems, the first of the 2 Mac mini’s (MiniServ), the G5 which started it all and the Japanese …
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A Look At My Other Mac Mini: Lion
In the last article we took a look at the first of my 2 Mac mini purchases, “MiniServ” which acts as my home Macintosh file server. To say that, following some natural upgrades, I’m pleased with that system would be an incredible understatement – for as basic as it is, just sitting there running Snow …
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A Look At My Mac Mini File Server: MiniServ
In the late Summer of 2018 I was really getting into a big kick of collecting and using old Macintosh systems. It wasn’t long after getting the MacBook mentioned in a previous article (and thus becoming “current” in the Macintosh ecosystem) that I had an idea to get a Mac mini system and use it …
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Why My Main Portable Computer Is a Japanese MacBook
Something I’m known for among friends, family, and co-workers is the fact that, since mid 2018, in any situation where I carry a laptop with me my go-to machine, 99 out of 100 times, is a 2010 MacBook from Japan. Yes, I’m completely serious — my main portable computer, of all the options I have, …
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A Year With An iPhone SE
Just over a year ago I finally made the switch from a relatively modest Android phone to an iPhone — in particular an iPhone SE. No, not the new one, of course — the older one which, apparently, many feel is the “best iPhone ever made” given its form factor and inclusion of a headphone …
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Remember When YouTube Was, Well, Fun?
Moreover, remember when the motto of the site was “Broadcast Yourself?” I sure as hell do, and at this stage the platform is about as far away from what It was when it started as is possible — it went from being just a simple place to share videos, to a place to really be …
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Installing Mac OS Lion On My Mac Mini – The Hard Way
Yesterday I told the story of how I wound up having to put a new hard drive in one of my Mac mini systems and, thanks to that, also reinstall Mac OS so the computer would be usable. After an entire night of messing with the system and figuring out just what had gone on, …
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Death Of A Hard Drive; Or, Why I Stayed Up Until 5:30 In The Morning Working On A Mac Mini
You ever have one of those night where you just have to get something done before you can go to sleep? That’s how last night was for me, thanks to the death of a hard drive in one of my 2 Mac mini systems. The unit in question is an old Core 2 Duo system …
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I Miss Making Videos, But I Don’t Miss YouTube
From a period around 2013 until maybe 2017 or 2018 at the latest, I tried my damnedest to have fun with a YouTube channel which focused on my various projects, interests, and the like, much like any other even remotely “geeky” person tends to do. For a while it was fun, but soon, thanks to …
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What The PlayStation 5 Controller Design Can Tell Us About The PlayStation 5 Console Design
Last night Sony posted a blog entry showing off the new controller for the PlayStation 5. I covered that in the previous article, but at the end of that entry mentioned that the visual style of this controller may give us a clue as to what the PlayStation 5 console itself may actually look like. …
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The PlayStation 5 “DualSense” Controller: Much Of The Same, With More We Didn’t Need
Last night on the PlayStation blog Sony showed off an image of the controller for the PlayStation 5, properly identifying it as the “DualSense” Controller. What they showed isn’t a radical departure from the PlayStation 4 controller, but certainly still is different from the controller design PlayStation gamers have been used to for the past …
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Getting Back To My Vintage Computer Collection
Over the past year or so my “office” in one room of the house has become pretty much nothing but storage, and in the process my Macintosh systems as well as a few other Windows machines of varying vintages have been effectively inaccessible. Over the past week some work has been done on that room …
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5 Things We *Know* The PlayStation 5 Will Do
Recently Sony finally got off its butt and actually announced some information about the PlayStation 5, including system specifications and details on its backwards compatibility or, more correctly, its lack thereof, but still left quite a bit to the internet rumor mill. I thought it would be nice to cut through the lies and attention-seeking …
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YouTube, Microsoft, And Sony Are Limiting Connection Speeds To Help Conserve Bandwidth
With many people being forced to stay home during this pandemic the overall infrastructure of the internet is being somewhat taxed by far more people than normal using it for video watching, gaming, teleconferencing, what have you, at any given time. While the overall infrastructure seems like it can handle the overall load the fact …
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