Arcterex's Random Thoughts Since 1996
One of my coworkers got a new laptop last week. Friday I set it up with software, configured email, removed a ton of the pre-installed crapware that wasn’t needed, and passed it on to her. Should be all fine, all that was really needed was to install a few bits of extra software, Skype, Slack, …
I take it back. I used to say that Windows 8 wasn’t that bad, you just have to get used to it. Sure it’s a bit different, but once you start using it, you’ll start to figure out what the thinking was. I was wrong. At that time I had never “really” used Windows 8. …
Some days it’s a bad idea to ignore (or rather, just not check) email. And ignore weird stuff when you see it. Turns out for two days straight my server has been spewing out spam, after a user on the server had their password compromised. The server is a Ubuntu server with Postfix as the …
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There are many Pebble Smart Watch reviews, all similar, all unique. This is mine. I heard about the Pebble Watch on Kickstarter the day that it made it’s goal, and even though I didn’t write about it, I did back it immediately. I got back into wearing a watch a couple of years ago with …
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: http://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: …
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 …
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 …
Shaw called me up yesterday and asked if I was wanting a digital cable box for the low-low price of $0 (for the next 6 months) to “make my picture and sound better” because they were “trying to get their customers onto digital picture and sound” or something like that. I talked to the guy …
Short version: got up early, didn’t get one, bummed. Here’s the long version though. I’ve wanted an iPhone 4 for a while, accuse me of being a fanboy or silly or whatever, but I have. My current iPhone is two generations old now, and is starting to feel like it, and with the official Canadian …
So in 2003, I reported Bug #123796 in the GNOME bug tracking system. Three years later it was marked as duplicate of Bug #340180. Finally over 3 years after that (today), it was marked as confirmed. It’s a relatively simple bug, easy to reproduce, and while not a huge important bug, it’s annoying and I’d …
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