I got my new webserver motherboard. There’s a story there. I’m saving it for later in the week.
The board doesn’t work. I power it on, and it shuts itself off after 2-3 seconds. The power supply works with a different board. So for the first time in my life, I’m contacting Asus technical support, because I can’t figure out if it’s something I did, or just a DOA board. So there’s going to be a story with that, too. Let’s hope for a happy ending.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.
Dave-
Love your posts. Can’t say I’m too excited about the new “sociables” tool bar that pops up over the text about the time I get halfway through the second sentence. Is there some place less inconvenient it could go? Who knows, I might even see what it’s about and use it then. Thanks.
Paul
I disabled the Sociable skyscraper. That must have been a new option when the plugin updated (earlier this week I think), and I hadn’t noticed it yet. Hopefully that makes it more convenient.
Paul, there’s a little tab on the left of the big bar. Tap it to toggle the presence of that blocking bar. I had the same problem as you do, when reading on my phone. The desktop has sufficient real estate so the bar doesn’t block the content.