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Why I (almost) never delete program installers
June 29th, 2009Some people may think keeping a 55gb archive folder with program installers dating back nearly 10 years is a bit excessive. But when you have the disk space, why not? Today, it just saved me a TON of head ache and trouble. Since 2005 I have ran a USB Power Commander 3 on my motorcycle. [...]
Funny “insider” type joke in the new Ghostbusters video game
June 18th, 2009On June 16th the new Ghostbusters Video Game came out. Being a HUGE fan of the series for the majority of my childhood, I decided to do something fairly rare (in my world at least), and that was to actually purchase the game. Luckily it was made available on Steam, which I already have an [...]
Clean up old files after installing Vista’s SP2
May 28th, 2009Around a year ago I wrote about getting 800mb of space back after installing SP1, and I come to you today with a similar tip for SP2! This one is not as dramatic as 800mb, but I did gain back around 400mb of disk space. Just as with SP1, this works by removing backup files [...]
Sync Your Server 2003 Time
May 13th, 2009For nearly all servers you don’t really need to worry about configuring this since most servers can keep their time by themselves. But every once in a while you run in to one of those black sheep servers that seems to lose time every time you turn around. The particularly annoying thing is that if [...]
I Love Dell Support
May 8th, 2009Trying to not be a negative nancy, I decided to post up a quick article on a great experience I had today with Dell’s customer support. A client called me saying their server wasn’t booting. I went out there and to make a long story short (about an hour of troubleshooting), I determine 1 of [...]
Install IPCop from a USB Drive
May 1st, 2009IPCop is a really neat open source project that can basically transform any old computer with 2 NIC’s in it in to a hardware firewall, VPN server, and Web Filter, among many other useful things. We use it quite a lot where I work and we’re always looking for the smaller, better IPCop box. The [...]
Acer Predator Fail
April 22nd, 2009Hahahaha, oh Acer, you make this too easy. Their top of the line gaming system, costing well above the $2k mark, failing brand new out of the box. In Acer’s defense though, it could’ve happened during shipping. Turns out the video card had come lose and wasn’t seated properly any more. Ryan took it out [...]
A stroll through a crashed MySQL database
April 5th, 2009Saturday became the day to install a new ceiling fan in our dining room. It was quite an adventure, and ended up not going so well because we apparently bought the wrong type of fan. We needed a flush mounted fan, but the one we bought can only be mounted with a down rod. Frustrating [...]
