It’s official (more or less), we have a house in New York! We had an offer accepted tonight on a two bedroom, two and a half bath townhouse in Peekskill, New York in Westchester County. If everything goes according to plan, we close on or around October 15th. Our lease in Newark ends on November …
Author Archives: Scott Alan Miller
July 24, 2008: No Wonder the Housing Market is Tanking
Oreo made me walk him at almost two in the morning. This late night walking is getting really old. We had to go for a long walk too – out around the block. Way more than I was wanting to do in the middle of the night. Oreo’s routine is to wait until I am …
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July 23, 2008: Waffle House and Water Guns
“Stripes aims to provide an experience similar to owning Apple hardware, Sony TVs and luxury German cars…” – Stripes for Java Website. I was not ready to get up when the alarm went off this morning. Oreo was very snuggly and I was still quite sleepy. Five thirty is too early for me this week. …
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Sofia the Miniature Schnauzer Euthanized
I discovered tonight that Sofia, the miniature schnauzer that we got to know through emails when Oreo was in the hospital with pet food poisoning in 2007, was euthanized just a few months after Oreo recovered from his bought with pet food poisoning. Sofia had to be put to sleep due to complications arising from …
Dual Head OpenSUSE 11 on the HP dx5150
One of my favourite workhorse platforms is the Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq dx5150 desktop with the AMD Athlon64 processor and ATI Radeon Xpress 200 chipset. I’ve used this model for many years with a variety of operating systems. I recently installed Novell’s OpenSUSE 11 to one of my dx5150 units to which I have attached two …