Knowledge base

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by.
Boy, was THAT a mistake.
—"Singletrack Lament," DWF, 2006

Miscellaneous stuff worth knowing.  Some of it is general interest; some of it is just notes to myself.  It's like a blog, only more useful.

• Food
  • Recipes
  • Hot sauce reviews
• Building PCs
  • Building PC lessons learned
  • PC component incompatibilities
  • PC hardware acronyms and code words
• Vintage PC rebuilds
  • Fax server
  • Curse of the Large PATA Drive
  • Baby AT Pentium
• Getting stuff to work under Slackware Linux
  • The 4G/4G split under Slackware
  • Getting decent sound from built-in audio under Linux
  • Slackware install optimization
  • Dell laptop
  • Accessing track 0 of a CD
  • Root file system on software RAID-0 THE EASY WAY
• Getting stuff to work under Verizon Fios
  • Can't get into router
  • Can't get closed captions
  • Captions from DVR are broken for certain shows and channels
  • Sound volume fluctuates randomly
  • DVR fails to record a scheduled program or only records part of it
  • Urge dead air
  • STB firmware bugs
  • The wicked, evil fembot
• Classic DOOM Preservation Project
  • Installing Windows 98 SE in 2006
  • Classic DOOM Versions, Ports, and Remakes
  • Trackballs
• Random enlightenment

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