I recently received an email from Fandango in which they proceeded to inform me that the last time I bought a movie ticket from them was for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. Now, I almost always use Fandango for purchases, and I know for a fact that I haven’t been to the movies [...]
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As I mentioned in my last twitter post, I’ve moved into the realm of uber-nerd. I’ll do my best to explain how and why that is.
A few months ago I started working from home 4 days a week. In an effort to keep myself from getting carpal tunnel from typing on a laptop [...]
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I spent the better part of two hours fighting with the BackupPC backup service on my Linux server. The software itself is extremely powerful and a pretty good fit for what I want to do: backup multiple computers to one spot, then create CD archives. The problems I experienced stemed from what I [...]
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Why? Well, I’ve had too many horrendous experiences with their product to continue putting money into it. The most recent experience put me over the edge.
My computer HD crashed. Not a few things went missing, the drive just crapped out. I’ve tried all manor of recovery (save sending it somewhere and [...]
While re-installing Windows on my new hard drive, it became clear that Windows XP SP3 did something to the Windows Update client, because I couldn’t install any updates through either the web interface or the automatic update interface. A quick Google search turned up this entry, which solved my problem.
