The Abode of McThag

If you can't run it offline, you don't own a copy. If the failure of someone else's computer takes it offline, you're rentin...

Without warning, or apparent reason, the TV's can no longer see my media server. The computers can see it just fine, so we can use them ...

Way back in the OICW days, the idea of a grenade that air-burst just past the barrier the bad guys were hiding behind had an instant appeal...

File under "obvious when you think about it". The suppressor on the M7 and XM8 is necessary because the insane chamber pressures a...

I, alone, and with just one spur, have managed to install the fonts that go missing every time I upgrade the version of Ubuntu! I hit the se...

Updated the Mother-In-Law's Lenovo T410 from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04.5 to 26.04.1. Updating Crispy from 22.04.5 to 26.04.1. Considering do...

It's interesting reading about the changes to the M7 rifle that lead to the XM8 rifle that are based on troop feed back. Almost exactly ...

"We easily gained access to the device because it lacked viable encryption.  We have corrected that oversight!" I was reading abou...

Digging into the, what seems to be excessive, draw of  The Beast's  electrical system. It appears to have been a decision on the part of...

Our lawn mower died.  Rather, it will not start. It doesn't seem to have compression. It's about... um...  11 years old. I think tha...

Some write ups comparing the fire control of the M60A3 and M1 make it seem like there's no reason to use the M1 fire control system. Bot...

I've noticed that the Soviets had better guns and thicker armor than the NATO nations until relatively late. NATO didn't start getti...

Got an email from a dead email account that still forwards... It was in my spam folder. It warns me that it's infected my operating syst...

We had a bit of a squall run through here. The power went out for about three hours and I now know that my uninterruptible power sources are...

Derpycomputer sitting on the desk with one monitor running on the side pulls 0.045kW. The Mac Pro, idling, with two sleeping monitors pulled...

Caught a short vid on YouTube talking about a battle in the Pacific in WW2. The Garands were firing 3-round bursts as fast as an M16, and sh...

It only took a year and a half, but I have finally moved my Thunderbird profile from Crispy IV to DerpyPuter. I guess it was time to admit t...

Ubuntu has three "Power Modes." Performance, Balanced and Power Saver. Performance notes, "High performance and power usage....

There's no iTunes for Ubuntu. There was iTunes on my Win7 and OSX 10.6.8 installs on the dead Mac Pro. This has led to a discovery of ju...

I noticed that I didn't have a song I wanted to listen to on my phone. Then I discovered that I did have the file on my phone, but it wa...