This may look like a repeat… well.. because it is… BUT.. you cannot find the old post. Why? Because, well … it no longer exists. My old host decided to accidentally delete my account. Yeah. Oops. After that nightmare, I’ve moved to a new host where the grass is greener, the hippies wear deodorant and well … wait … never mind… onto the good stuff…Here’s the old post, reposted again. ——————————— Ok, I admit … I have a fascination with maps. Why? Who knows. I just love...
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Be Prepared – A Practical Handbook For New Dads Being a new dad is sort of like anything else in life that you've never done before. Its confusing, its hard, its fun, its rewarding and well, its just plain hard to figure out. Babies are like computer viruses that always adapt. You have to figure out how to keep them within their sandbox before they get out and destroy everything. Before you can confine them to their sandbox, you have to figure out exactly how and what you need to do that. When it comes to babies, simple tasks can be quite daunting to a new dad. Some of...
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The data backing this up is purely from reading on the web and just following a “gut” feeling. Just from following people on Twitter you can see how much hype this thing is getting. Check it out. This is how I see 2009 panning out for our browser market:   Notes:I’m not trying to offend anyone by calling them turtlenecks or francois or booger eaters. It is, what it is. We’re dorks! Thats the way we roll.  ...
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It never fails… I’ll boot up, start a program, walk away, log back into my PC and all of a sudden the disk light on my laptop or desktop is lit up like a Christmas tree for the next 10 minutes. The computer is rendered useless until its done “working”. I can’t do anything at this point but wait. A WASTE OF MY FLIPPING TIME. The Problem With Task Manager The problem is: I can’t do anything while the disk is tripping on a couple of tabs of electric ecstasy … opening task manager shows me… WELL… nothing. Task Manager says not a single process...
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Last night I needed to wipe a machine of mine clean – back to factory settings. On the 6400 series there is a D partition that has all of the factory settings. It even has a little utility called "PCRestore.exe" that looks VERY promising. However, if you double click it it will ask if you would like to reformat. Of course, you say "yes" and then it starts and then you get a brilliant dialog error. I don’t have a screen shot of it, but basically, its an error box that has the error icon (big red circle with an X in it) and an OK button. No error text. Click...
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