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Last Spring, when I rebuilt this website, I used a Raspberry Pi on my home network as an internal web server to host the site development. Setting it up for that purpose was pretty easy once I got PHP/MySQL and WordPress installed on it. However, there were a couple of config files that had to be manually modified which required [...]

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My parents have been buying Gateway PCs since the dawn of the late '80s, back before Gateway dumped the "2000" from their title. Our first truly good PC was a Gateway 2000 386DX/33 tower. That baby was cutting edge (at the time) and it was built like a tank. It could handle games like Wing Commander II without breaking a [...]

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Now this is a cool design for a small computer. It still amazes me that no one has yet to commercialize small designer PCs. I mean, the Mac Mini is a big step in the right direction, but I would like to see more companies market this same approach to small computer design. No, they don't have to be made [...]

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I recently bought a really nice DVD Burner (it's just amazing how cheap these drives are now) and one of the first things that I did with it was create a DVD video disc that contains the three movies that are on this site. The software I used to compile the video onto the disc was not the world's greatest, [...]

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This is a movie I created of the Nott Memorial located at Union College in Schenectady, NY. My goal is to recreate the structure as it appeared in the late 19th century. Since the Nott was heavily renovated in the late 20th century, the interior of my model does not exactly match what is there today, but it is close. I modeled the structure [...]

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I currently use Windows XP running on an Athlon XP 2000 machine with 1GB of RAM that I built two years ago. Surprisingly, this computer has aged pretty well considering all the new stuff that's out there today. I want to upgrade it at some point soon since the motherboard in this machine can take a higher-clocked CPU than the [...]