I recently tried to sell my old KVM switch and cables on ebay. A local guy from Orillia won. I used to have a really old dying monitor from the early 90's attached to it and saw the same kind of lines you'd see when pointing a video camera at a monitor. I thought it was the monitor but to be sure, I tested with my new LCD screen. The dam scan lines are still there, so it must be the KVM. I emailed the guy and said he could have it for free because I didn't want to keep it and didn't want to see it go in the garbage if replacing the KVM cables might solve the problem.
Today I dropped it off, and while there he gave me a tour of their server room. It was neat, because the entire ISP was basically one server cabinet with a bunch of stuff it. The room was the same size as our server room. I got to see where the old Encode Online BBS used to be, and one of the remaining BBS computers. He says now the guy maintains the BBS from his home.
Well hopefully it works out for him, with high quality KVM cables. If not, he didn't lose any money on it.
In just a few hours I leave to Toronto for my first class in the Professional J2EE Web Application Development. I'm excited and nervous at the same time. I'm focusing the future of my career on java web applications. Hopefully the months of reading I've done beforehand will make it easier for me to get through this course.
Working from his home office in Toronto,
Ryan de Laplante can be found developing software in
Java by day, and obsessing with technology by night.
Ryan has been designing and writing software for
IJW since 1998 and is very passionate about his work.
