My first non-food service, non-retail job was working desktop support for my college, the University of Missouri-Columbia. They were doing a massive computer upgrade and needed some part-time help. When they realized they’d found a journalism student who knew PC hardware and already knew OS/2, they cut the interview short and showed me around. I [...]
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“Why do we have a server named ‘Vicious?’”
Posted by Dave Farquhar on June 10, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/06/why-do-we-have-a-server-named-vicious/
Advice on avoiding college debt–at least for Missouri residents
The business section of the Post-Dispatch had a good article on avoiding college debt. It’s tricky, as even Mizzou costs $22,000 a year now. I’m pretty sure when I was a Tiger, it was more like $10,000 a year, though I had scholarships that knocked that down even more.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on August 17, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/08/advice-on-avoiding-college-debt-at-least-for-missouri-residents/
The old days of viruses
Blogging pioneer John Dominik, inspired by my Michelangelo memories, wrote about his memories of viruses later in the decade. So now I’ll take inspiration of him and share my memories of some of those viruses. I searched my archives, and at the time it was going on, I didn’t write a lot. I was tired [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 8, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/03/the-old-days-of-viruses/
Should journalists hack?
I experienced an interesting collection of contrasts going to journalism school in the mid 1990s. Inside the same building, we had investigative journalists who specialized in advanced use of databases and stodgy editors who missed the days of manual typewriters and wore technological ignorance as a badge of honor. And yet, there were textbooks that [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on July 6, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/07/should-journalists-hack/
In defense of college and 4-year degrees
College is a waste of time? I disagree with Mr. Stephens’ statement that college is a waste of time. I don’t know what college he went to, or what he studied there, but I certainly didn’t spend four years at the University of Missouri copying my professors’ thoughts.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on June 4, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/06/in-defense-of-college-and-4-year-degrees/
Do tablets cut into PC sales?
I see multiple reports that PC makers are seeing tablets cut into the sales of traditional PCs. The two items don’t compete directly, but when consumers have limited disposable income, I can see them either buying a less-expensive PC so they can also buy a tablet, or hanging on to an aging PC another year [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 18, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/05/do-tablets-cut-into-pc-sales/
Why working fast food and retail was good for me
One of my former high school classmates is concerned. Her seven-year-old’s life ambition is to work at McDonald’s.
I told her not to worry. I didn’t work at McDonald’s, but I spent 2 1/2 years working another, nearly defunct fast-food chain, and that motivated me more than anything to go to college. And then, working two years off and on in retail motivated me to finish college.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on June 2, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/06/why-working-fast-food-and-retail-was-good-for-me/
Tribute to the Asus SP97-V
In need of an obsolete but reliable PC for a project, I searched a dark corner of my basement, a last stop for castoff PCs before being sent off for recycling.
I found one. Predictably, it had an Asus motherboard in it. Specifically, it had an SP97-V in it, a budget Socket 7 board from the late 1990s sporting a SiS chipset with integrated video that worked well with Cyrix and AMD CPUs.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 12, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/05/tribute-to-the-asus-sp97-v/