Category Archives: UtterPower Articles

10/13/2011 Dennis Ritchie, (Bell Labs) RIP, C language and Unix

Posted on October 14, 2011 by George B.

  Above: A Mini Computer that so many of us loved… including Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. A tribute to Ritchie With the most recent passing of Steve Jobs, it was a little bit of a shock to learn that Dennis Ritchie had … Continue reading →

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Lessons on Fence Building, and how you avoid building a new one.

Posted on October 13, 2011 by George B.

  You need not be a Fence Builder to invest in learning the basics of Fence Building, and the five minutes you spend reading  this short story may save you a thousand dollars or more. We are DIYers, and of course we … Continue reading →

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Try and blow this off! just the tip of the ice berg folks :-)

Posted on October 11, 2011 by George B.

          Another Fraud! Watch your technically ignorant Greenie Friends rationalize robbing the tax payers! And how much of this money went to political supporters? Remember, they’re taking the money out of the general fund…  ‘your social security payments’. … Continue reading →

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Lessons Learned this week in the Mountains, and news of the next bad investment in Delaware

Posted on October 6, 2011 by George B.

Some of the best thinking I do is in the Mountains. This last trip was a special one.   I’ve had more than 30 years to observe the animals and the plants up here and I’m just beginning to know what … Continue reading →

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Email of the day, what can we learn? 9/27/11

Posted on September 27, 2011 by George B.

  An email follows and there are many I receive that are most similar to this one.. perhaps the Author will be angry when he sees it here, but I have deleted some specifics and changed his name.   Hey George, To … Continue reading →

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The Future Of News, Subscribe to a topic!

Posted on September 23, 2011 by George B.

News  I’m not sure any of us are fully aware of our bias, but I do believe it comes down to what group of two major groups of people you fall into.  Those who think the entire world can be organized and controlled top … Continue reading →

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Remember failed Evergreen Solar?

Posted on September 21, 2011 by George B.

I posted the reports of Evergreen Solar’s new production facility built with your Social Security Payments. The math was easy, and the plant was doomed to failure competeing against the Standard panel of the day. Twenty percent larger than the … Continue reading →

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Waste Not, Want Not

Posted on September 18, 2011 by George B.

AS we’ve discussed a number of times, DIYers are generally ‘thrifty’ People, and we have a hard time throwing away stuff when we find them less that useful. Consider all the books and reports you have stacking up? Here’s some examples I’m looking … Continue reading →

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Reinventing Collapse, by Dmitry Orlov

Posted on September 18, 2011 by George B.

  Utterpower’s Sunday Morning Book Review The following is more ‘thinking out loud’.  Consider adding your thoughts, simply keep scrolling down to the comment box.  As many of us watch our Government attempt to print it’s way out of a huge mess, we DIYers attempt … Continue reading →

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An Important Study in Human Behavior and A Prediction of Things to Come

Posted on September 17, 2011 by George B.

A link worth your effort to study, but first a short introduction. Al Gores’s September 14th 2011 (24 hours of Reality) never made it onto the radar screen for average folks, and I think there’s a Prophecy to be made if … Continue reading →

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