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Dan Rubin's SuperfluousBanter

Suffering from chronic idiocy since 1977

Category Archives: Technology

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Schools Switching from Macs to “Personal Computers”

File this under the “bull­shit” cat­e­gory: Schools in Pinel­las County, Florida will be switch­ing from Macs to “Per­sonal Com­put­ers” for stu­pid rea­sons (aside from the fact that they appar­ently do not real­ize that Macs are per­sonal com­put­ers too). One teacher is quoted stat­ing “With PCs, the kids should get more com­puter time” and “I usu­ally like […]

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Tuesday, October 7th, 2003.

Homeland Insecurity

In a move which brings a whole new mean­ing to the “Blue Screen of Death”, the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­rity has awarded a $90 Mil­lion con­tract to Microsoft to pro­vide the desk­top and server soft­ware for about 140,000 com­put­ers inside the orga­ni­za­tion. I would nor­mally use pro­fan­ity here, but I think I’m too stunned by […]

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Thursday, July 17th, 2003.

Learning OS X

I usu­ally like the learn­ing process. I’ve never really hated it (well, except Math…) until today. I’m sup­posed to set up a Mac OS X Server machine to run MySQL, Post­greSQL, and a few other toys, so the box can be used for com­mer­cial web host­ing. I say sup­posed to because I don’t actu­ally know anything […]

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Wednesday, July 24th, 2002.

You’ve Got Banter!

OK, so I wanted a web­site, some­where to put all my thoughts (well, most of them any­way), music, pho­tos, projects, art­work, etc. for all the world to see. Here it is.

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Friday, July 19th, 2002.

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