Author: sroot

  • The joy of being a forum/newsgroup moderator

    I like to be helpful. It makes me feel good. When I post lots of technical questions to a community I’ll look to see if I can offer something in return for others. When the spree group asked for volunteer anti-spam moderators I was happy to volunteer. One side effect of that was being added…

  • Peer to Peer downloading (Torrents) and network problems

    Recently my parents had some friends visit. They had a laptop with them and asked to use the internet. We’ve not problem with that so let them connect…. except when they connected they were running a peer-to-peer file sharing program. If you’re here, you probably know what that is. A way of sharing large files…

  • Screen recording on a mac

    Mac OS continues to keep me happy. Sure, it has it’s faults but I just needed to capture my screen to file a software bug report. I could have explained step by step by typing but sending a video file is so much simpler. Except, I hadn’t done it on my Mac before. A quick…