Saikat Chakrabarti Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Posted on July 12, 2019 by Brian

This is a story about a tech geek. Tired of working in Silicon Valley. Wanting to make a difference in the world. No different than me or many others.  Continuing to work at a bright computer startup didn’t seem to answer that desire. Continue reading →

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Puppy Linux “sfs not found” hard fix

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Brian

Puppy linux has a recurring problem about not finding the sfs file during the boot process. Have you also seen the error “sfs not found. Dropping out to initial ramdisk console….” ? Here’s an out-of-band hard-fix to that problem: use netcat to preposition the file on hard disk instead of having the OS configuration script fail to read the file off disk. Continue reading →

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Bootstrap Tomsrtbt Linux with Netcat

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Brian

In order to rebuild a bootable hard drive on an older computer, I was able to use the Tomsrtbt Linux v2.0.103. However, the 3.5″ floppy disk from 12 years ago was exhibiting read problems on some of the sectors (hex code errors after the “L” part of the LILO boot), so I needed to have tomsrtbt create a new copy of itself. Continue reading →

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AOC, Croissants, and Minimum Wage

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Brian

A few days ago, AOC tweeted “Croissants at LaGuardia are going for SEVEN DOLLARS A PIECE. Yet some people think getting a whole hour of personal, dedicated human labor for $15 is too expensive??” Continue reading →

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AOC vs. Secretary Ross

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Brian

If you haven’t seen AOC aggressively question Secretary Ross about the 2020 census question about being a citizen, check out one of the on-line videos. I’m trying to figure out if she’s sharp and quick, or just stupid and arrogant. So I looked up the actual law under debate… Continue reading →

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