[Shopping] eBuyer Beware

I know this.  Read the fine print.  I didn't do that.  The rest is geeky details having to do with rack-mountable servers. I have a 12U rack.  Sort-of an end-table next to the couch.  I have two servers.  One of them is happily racked.  The other one is awkwardly sitting sideways across the top of the rack. I jumped on eBay a week ago, looking to find the rails I need....

25 Aug 2018 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

NYCC : Horrible Shopping Experience

I already have tickets for two other conventions this year, but NYCC is the big one that happens in the city where I live and work. I know in the last few years tickets have been harder and harder to get, and I figured my chances were not going to be very good. If this is too long one can safely scroll down to the Conclusion at the bottom. I tried to buy tickets to NYCC the minute they went on sale....

14 May 2015 · 5 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Manhattan Flagship Stores Are Not For Me

Manhattan shopping.  In the story below, I'm NOT saying the brand or the nam e of the store.  I don't want to throw rage at one tiny example of something that ex i sts throughout Manhattan, especially at the brand-name stores that call themsel v es A Flagship Store.                                                                               There are multiple stores in Manhattan that are not externally identified as Fla g ship but are....

1 Feb 2015 · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Syntaur Doing It Right

I have an Ensoniq KS-32 keyboard that was released 20 years ago.  I think that mine is only 17 years old, though (I'm the third owner, but I have owned it since 1998).  Anyway, it's a great board, and it has treated me very well for a very long time. There had been a low battery warning for, probably the last 10 years or so.  My response was to just never turn it off, which worked until I had to turn it off for a while....

13 Oct 2012 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink