The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

I figured out my PDF printing problem….

| April 3, 2009

Apparently I had the resolution set to 1200dpi and on some of the pages which were mostly graphics it used too much memory and messed up the printer. At 600dpi, it is printing fine (and not taking the computer 12 hours to process the job before sending it to the printer..) I bet this was [...]

Ice cream

| April 3, 2009

A friend of mine sent me the following: In Honor of the 44th President of the United States, Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream has issued a new flavor, ” Barocky Road .” Barocky Road is a blend of half Vanilla, half Chocolate, and surrounded by Nuts and Flakes. The Vanilla portion of the mix is not openly [...]

The end of an era

| April 3, 2009

Looks like Sun and SGI are both headed for the end of the line. Kind of a shame, but on the other hand, both IRIX and Solaris failed to keep up with the times – going from a modern Linux or BSD to one of them just feels… clunky.

Memory foibles

| April 2, 2009

So, I got my 4GB of memory and chucked it in, only to find out that the laptop can only see 3GB of it. Hmmm… 64 bit CPU? Check. 64 bit OS? Check. WHaaaa? Hunh… Note: Only 64-bit operating systems support more than 3GB of system memory (RAM). Intel Chipsets 945GM and 945PM do not [...]

Projects…

| April 2, 2009

This is what Liz and her dad have been doing the past couple of weeks: I helped a little – helped move furniture, patched the ceiling, will help move the stuff back, but I’ve been busy with fire stuff. However, I did find time to put in the plants, some of which have now sprouted: [...]

60 Minutes

| April 2, 2009

Is retarded. Article The Internet is infected. Malicious computer hackers have been creating more and more weapons that they plant on the Internet. They call their weapons viruses and worms – they’re creepy, crawly toxic software that contaminate our computers without our ever knowing it. You can be infected by simply visiting your favorite Web [...]