Category Archives: Hacks & Slacks

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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Dual Boot Linux and iOS for Kicks

I was having a long discussion with a friend on Facebook concerning whether or not using a jail metaphor to describe the gated community aspect of Apple’s consumer relations is accurate when he hipped me to this odd little match-up … Continue reading

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