We had some power hiccups this morning, and that led to some networking issues that I didn’t notice until tonight. Between soldering a circuit together for the article I’m working on, drawing diagrams, and rebuilding a consumer-grade HP Pavilion to possibly resell, I never noticed my webserver wasn’t up.
But we’re back now, and my soldering skills, well, pretty much look like the last time I did some soldering. Makes me wonder how much business I have trying to solder a new power jack onto my sister’s Toshiba laptop, but the replacement jack is just two connections, so four joints total.
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.