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What Have I Done for You Lately?
- Pin (Formerly My) Computer (or Any Location) to the Windows 7 Taskbar
- The Mac that Broke the Administrator Account and How I Fixed It
- How to Ninja that Huge Drive into Aligning a New Partition
- Using YUMI to Create Multi-Boot Thumbdrives
- Compact and Easy Windows Defragger
- Surveyor of the Foistest
- Random Power Supply FYI
- Sharpening the Social Blades
- Windows Wants a New Printer
- Use the Latest Skype on Ubuntu
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Pin (Formerly My) Computer (or Any Location) to the Windows 7 Taskbar
Pinning things to the Taskbar is pretty useful. I would say even more useful than the previous Quick Launch. The trouble is that there are some things which simply will not be pinned so easily. Like an oiled badger, you … Continue reading
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The Mac that Broke the Administrator Account and How I Fixed It
There is this thing that happens from time to time where a Mac on our network will get confused about the local administrator account. For whatever reason it thinks it’s a domain administrator account. If you were to run id … Continue reading
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How to Ninja that Huge Drive into Aligning a New Partition
I recently received a pair of 3 TB drives to replace a pair of 1.5 TB drives in my music server. I was relieved to discover that both the bios and Ubuntu’s utilities had no trouble in seeing those new … Continue reading
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Using YUMI to Create Multi-Boot Thumbdrives
Lately I’ve had good cause to use bootable thumbdrives. To the point where I am now finding use for having a single 16 GB thumbdrive which contains various different bootable utilities and installation discs. Over at PenDriveLinux I was able … Continue reading
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Compact and Easy Windows Defragger
The built-in degragmentation tool in Windows (any version) rather, to put it politely, sucks giant iguana balls. Seriously. It’s like when you ask a kid to clean up his or her room and they stuff all their crap into the … Continue reading
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Surveyor of the Foistest
You may recall how annoying I found the alleged update of iTunes called Safari. You may also have been amused by my railing against the equally alleged update to Windows called Silverlight. Microsoft has delivered a new alleged update called … Continue reading
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Random Power Supply FYI
I had a client complaining that her laptop was in turn complaining about the power supply was too weak (I think the warning was “your power supply fu is weak!”). I compared the power supply she was using when she … Continue reading
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Sharpening the Social Blades
Ah, yes; the age of mob-rule is upon us. Only it’s a kinder gentler mob-rule than those of old. It’s a mob-rule that merely looks askance at you and scoffs and maybe snorts in contemptuous disbelief. And yet it’s effective. … Continue reading
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Windows Wants a New Printer
I recently had the privledge of setting up a new networked printer for the Seattle Tilth. I really enjoy working with organizations like this because I feel like I’m helping to make the world a better place. At any rate, … Continue reading
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Use the Latest Skype on Ubuntu
I have been using this method for keeping Skype up to date on my Ubuntu systems (I’m currently using 10.04 all around but this ought to be flexible enough to work on other versions). Here is my condensed version for … Continue reading
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