Month: September 2022

  • Learning to appreciate TMNT on the NES/Famicom

    Learning to appreciate TMNT on the NES/Famicom

    Although I watched the 80s cartoon growing up I hesitate to consider myself a fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I like Ninjas but could care less about Teenagers, Mutants and Turtles. I do, however, love video games and the old NES/Famicom era fills me with nostalgia and memories of sitting on the floor with my brother (and occasionally cousins) as we worked our way through a particularly difficult game.

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  • And now itΓÇÖs time for Linux

    And now itΓÇÖs time for Linux

    I’d always said I was not a hardware guy, that I preferred working with applications leaving someone else with the responsibility for the machines that ran them. Then one day I found myself salvaging an old video card to install onto a new PC. Granted, it was a Dell PC so its modular nature made things a lot easier.

    I still don’t consider myself a hardware guy but am no longer completely abhorrent to the idea. I now find myself in a similar place with regards to server management and, more generally, Linux.

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