After a discussion recently about Nintendo‘s Game Boy and Laptops in general, this idea was born: Amazing, isn’t it? You just set up your laptop as shown, get an emulator, dump your cart’s ROM, and you now have a big screen and portable version of your wonderful Game Boy. Anyway, since Tetris is my favorite [...]

I had this idea a while ago that making “vanity shells” would be an awesome thing to do. I’m talking about the shells that present an interface to various operating system functions and services…not the ones from an egg or an ocean. I have already began work on a shell that simulates that of the [...]

This past week I have been screwing with my RS/6000 and started by installing AIX 5.1 on it. AIX 5.1 came with 5 CDs and I figured this OS install would be very long. But, when the installation completed with only using the first CD, I was releaved and quite disconcerted at the same time [...]