Yea, yea, dead blog that has only 3 readers. Not completely dead, I’ve been feeling more guilty as time goes on and I don’t update, or at least point to where I am actually doing stuff. Basically now that I’ve been working at Left of the Dot and my commute went down by about […]
Where I’ve Been Lately Read Post »
Well, this morning marked the second day, and start of the first “real” week of work at my new job at Left of the Dot. So far so good, though not without some griping and minor failures on my part. The latter mostly came this morning. See, right now I have no shower (another long
Day Two At the New Job Read Post »
Hows this for a blast from the past: All comments: help@counter.li.org Your record was created: 1999-04-23 05:07:09 Person info last modified: 2006-03-12 08:33:53 //PERSON name: Alan usage: Home, work started: 1998 homepage: https://arcterex.net/blog/ //MACHINE 52939 cpu: Pentium 75 # Interpreted as Pentium/75 disk: 2000 memory: 48 network: Ethernet source: debian.org distribution: Debian country: CA accounts:
Linux Counter Entry, 1999 Read Post »
Two starkly different experiences with customer service today. First the Good: Pretty simple here. I have been looking into online backup services and had let the 14 day demo of CrashPlan lapse without actually testing it out. Not only are the support people watching their @crashplan twitter account fast and helpful, but they were happy to hook
How You Should and Shouldn’t Treat Your Customers Read Post »
Been doing a lot of “Strobist” stuff lately, the shot to the right is of the beautiful Terra-Jean whom I had the honor of shooting a couple of weekends ago at a meetup.com gathering of photographers, led by Chris Pike. Great time was had and I got some great shots if you hit that image’s
Portrait and Teeth, etc. Read Post »
Well, it took it’s time, but it’s finally here (at least for a bit). We were sitting watching the new (and excellent) Sherlock BBC series when we looked out the window and what appeared to be snowballs were falling from the sky. Turns out it was just snow in huge flakes though. Grabbed my Pentax
So it was the power supply, and I didn’t have to resort to spending a ton of money (well, yet anyway). After installing the new power supply, and finding the solution to my next problem (the system running super-slow with 4 1G sticks of RAM) – installing a BIOS update, everything is back to normal
Computer Back To Normal Read Post »
Another day of complete and total hardware failure 🙁 The plan was simple… help clean up the office by converting two computers into one by moving my aging linux desktop (mostly unused except for the occasional consulting project I get) into a virtual machine (using either Virtual Box or VMWare) on my more modern (but
Windows Done Did Blow Up! Read Post »
Oh well, guess it’s not always a perfect world in Apple support-land. The battery in my laptop has been less than steller lately, so I headed to the Apple store armed with this article hoping to get a new battery from them gratis. Sadly, it was not to be. After explaining to the guy there
No Freebies This Time :( Read Post »
After spending a while hitting the limit of my laptop hard drive, and being annoyed with being forced to actually cull my data and videos and music to make it all fit, I finally realized that for under $100 I could almost triple the storage space I had in it with little or no worries
Upgraded My Laptop Read Post »