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Wednesday, August 22, 2001

Pondering the Imponderable -- 11:26 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Well, it appears that my beloved Detroit Red Wings are really going for broke this year. They just signed Brett Hull to a two year contract. This signing will push their payroll to almost $60 million--a huge amount by NHL standards. It looks like the Wings braintrust is planning on making big-time runs at the Cup this year and the next, and after that to go into a rebuilding phase. Let's go Wings!

Tuesday, August 21, 2001

More DOOM Legacy -- 7:28 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Great news! I finally got MIDI sound to work in DOOM Legacy in Linux. After downloading the latest beta (currently 1.32 beta 1), and upgrading my SDL and SDL_mixer packages to 1.2, I just had to create this symbolic link:

ln -s /usr/share/timidity/ /usr/local/lib/timidity

so SDL_mixer could find where Red Hat 7.1 installed TiMidity on my system. Now I can listen to the classic MIDIs or even CD audio whilst playing DOOM. Ya know, I almost forgot how fun that game is . . .

UPS Overview -- 1:14 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

ExtremeTech posted an overview of uninterruptible power supply technology. It covers what makes UPSes "tick" as well as giving some basic things to look for when shopping. As I mentioned before, I recently purchased an APC Back-UPS Office 500. I'm very happy with it and feel much safer when storms approach. After having a post-storm brown-out kill the power to my computer and then it didn't want to reboot, I got nervous. No more nerves for me! $100 bought an awful lot of peace of mind.

By the way, just try typing "uninterruptible" sometime. It ain't easy, Chester!

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