Enter the Fujitsu Stylistic 1000s

December 8, 2005 D. H. McKee

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In a bout of thoughtless haste, my co-worker and I ordered some Fujitsu Stylistic 1000s off eBay. I mentioned that they were in this O’Reilly book as a prime example of hardware repeater starting kits. These devices are 486 DX100 with 16MB RAM and no hard drive, but they’ve got 3 PCMCIA slots, and can boot off compact flash or a PCMCIA hard drive. They can run Windows95 and Linux, and apparently make great low-power-consumption WiFi repeaters, if you put 2 PCMCIA WiFi cards in them.

So my co-worker looks on eBay, and finds 3 for under $30US — or something like $8 each. So we ordered them. I told my boss that we might use them in an in-house experiment, using them as actual WiFi sources in the building, and since we have a mandate to get WiFi up and running here, that it’s a good buy.
Now I may have a 2kg paperweight coming to me. We’ll see.

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.