Jerry Pournelle

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May 1998	•    Four Ways to More Storage .  Jerry believes in backups, and Chaos Manor's multiple redundancy system has just entered a new age.
April 1998	•    Good Enough Is Good Enough .  Spring is around the corner, and the Orchids and Onions are sprouting in Dr. Pournelle's garden.
March 1998	•    Doing Something About Microsoft .  Jerry wants to leave the definition of "operating system" to Microsoft -- but there's a catch.
February 1998	•    To Cure a Failing Memory .  Jerry's unending quest for more storage space and more RAM leads him into the thicket of disk and memory optimization.
January 1998	•     From the Workbench .  Jerry builds yet another system, his first with an AMD K6 processor, and adds a second Pentium Pro to Fireball.

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December 1997	•    Fire Three for Effect! .  Jerry builds a new dual Pentium Pro system from the ground up -- and gets a case of the software-installation blues.
November 1997	•    Fooling Around with the Web .  Jerry finds some new tools to help him work on his Web site -- and finds time for a visit to SIGGRAPH.
October 1997	•    Virtual Publishing -- and Virtual Travel .  Jerry takes to the skies with a new laptop -- and muses on some virtual possibilities.
September 1997	•    New Synergies for Computing .  The combination of writable CD-ROMs and new image technologies may usher in a new age for computer users.
August 1997	•    Some Things Make You Feel Stupid .  Jerry is plagued this month by things that he should have known -- but a new high-end graphics program cheers him up.
July 1997	•    A Web Site for Chaos Manor .  Jerry finally puts Chaos Manor on the Web -- and finds time to give Pentafluge an OverDrive upgrade.
June 1997	•    Of Supercomputers, Sound Files, and Sugarscape .  Jerry encounters some powerful machines and embarks on some programming projects.
May 1997	•    Two Heads Are Better Than One .  Two processors plus two monitors make for an impressive graphics display.
April 1997	•    Orchids and Onions Are Blooming .  Jerry surveys the chaos and presents the year's User's Choice Awards.
March 1997	•    It Was a Great Comdex .  Here are a few of the things that impressed Jerry this year -- and a few caveats.
February 1997	•    Of Bug-Hunting and a New Frontier .  You can't always predict the way two programs will interact -- but you can be sure graphics design will never be the same.
January 1997	•    A Hard Drive and a Hot Santa Ana .  Another heat wave brings near disaster to Chaos Manor -- and Jerry finds a novel use for a CPU fan.

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December 1996	•    A Hot Night at the Opera .  A heat wave and disk errors plague Chaos Manor, causing Jerry to reach out for the Panic box.
November 1996	•    Don't Swap: Network! .  Upgrading the Pournelle way means more than trading in one machine for another.
October 1996	•    Of Zip and Spam and NT 4.0 .  Jerry finds new uses for removable drives -- once he gets SCSI drive assignments under control.
September 1996	•    A Little Taste of Crow .  Jerry discovers the real explanation for the Cyrix system crashes -- in an unlikely place.
August 1996	•    Adieu, Pentafluge....Hello, Cyrus .  Jerry breaks in a new Cyrix 6x86 machine and wrestles with Win 95's System Agent and the PCI bus.
July 1996	•    Comments on Code .   Once nearly everyone did a little programming -- then along came C.
June 1996	•    When D Equals E .  Global environmental models capture Dr. Pournelle's attention--and installing a removable drive on Pentafluge brings on a world of problems.
May 1996	•    Of Cables and Cards .   The Diamond Flower, Inc. (DFI) dual-Pentium Doubleshot 133 is the quietest machine at Chaos Manor.
April 1996	•    The Fragrant and the Foul .  Spring comes early at Chaos Manor--the Orchids and Onions are blooming
March 1996	•    An Upgrade for Mrs. Pournelle .  Big Cheetah's departure casts a pall over Chaos Manor--but the show goes on--and Roberta gets a Win 95 machine
February 1996	•    SuperCow on the Beach .  Carrying monitors is an odd way to get exercise, but Jerry does get a gorgeous display
January 1996	•    Dead Chickens and Portable Data .  Jerry offers advice on disaster recovery and looks at ways to access data -- anywhere

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December 1995	•    A New Mutation .  As usual, Windows 95 is the focus of attention at Chaos Manor. But first, a new virus.
November 1995	•    Digital Models .  Digital images are available for everything from an Iowa-class battleship to Denzel Washington. Seeing is no longer believing.
October 1995	•    Death Swoops and Upgrades .  From a spacecraft to hardware and software upgrades, Dr. Pournelle's explorations into the unknown continue on all frontiers
September 1995	•    Of COM Ports and Digital Frogs .  Jerry attends an education conference and then learns a thing or two about communications software in Windows 95
August 1995	•    Windows 95 Pastiche .  Jerry divides his time between W indows 95 installations and the Electronic Entertainment Exposition
July 1995	•    Windows 95 Arrives .  Jerry is both successful and unsuccessful at installing Windows 95 on the Chaos Manor machines
June 1995	•    Privacy and Liberty .  Galaxies on the Internet, technological threats to privacy, CD-ROM art exhibitions--the esteemed Dr. Pournelle serves up another technological stew
May 1995	•    Prizes and Surprises .  Jerry visits Microsoft and finds time to wrestle with OSes, hard drives, and laser printers
April 1995	•    Orchids and Onion s: Part 1 .  Jerry presents his list of last year's best and worst computer products
March 1995	•    Unexpected Adventures .  Intending only to update a simple BASIC program, Jerry winds up locked in combat with uninstallers, tape drives, INI files, and more
February 1995	•    Software-Installation Hell .  April may not be the cruelest month. Last February, Jerry's column was ``Upgrades from Hell,'' and this month...
January 1995	•    Communications Issues .  A visit to the Interop Conference in Atlanta reinforces Jerry's belief that networking is very important

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December 1994	•    Can You Say Network? .  Jerry's campaign into computerdom proceeds on all fronts, with particularly heavy activity in networking
November 1994	•    A Look to the Future .  After visits to some computer giants, Jerry discusses several major trends he sees in the industry. He also looks at new fax devices, CD-ROMs, and modems.
October 1994	•    Odds and Ends .  Short-shrift time at Chaos Manor finds Jerry looking at an outliner, an uninstall program, a Windows shell, and much more
September 1994	•    Don't Blink .  A wrestling match with a new Pentium machine and graphics card produces a winner: the fastest system yet at Chaos Manor
August 1994	•    Traveling Light .  A quick trip to a SCSI summit gives Jerry an opportunity to explore minimalist on-the-road computing
July 1994	•    An Educational Trip .  Jerry travels to London to attend a conference on education and then goes to Birmingham to visit a major English computer show
June 1994	•    A Pentium Is Sounded Out .  Jerry names his new Pentium system, which he thrusts into the multimedia stream by testing several sound boards
May 1994	•    Crash, Bang--Quake .  Orchids and Onions issue forth despite an earthquake, operating-system wars, and a Flying Windows ordeal
April 1994	•    What's Hot, What's Not .  The annual Orchid and Onion Parade issues forth from Chaos Manor
March 1994	•    Booting, Benchmarking, and Bob's Your Uncle .  Jerry's ongoing exploration of Windows takes him to novel boot-up utilities and more benchmarking of video cards
February 1994	•    Upgrades from Hell .  Installing CD-ROM drives and graphics accelerator cards turns into pitched battles between Jerry and the Chaos Manor computers
January 1994	•    Travels and Travails .  Traveling, lecturing, lobbying, watching the launch of a spaceship, testing modems, setting up a NetWare network, having printing problems, getting a new monitor--Chaos Manor is aptly named