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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 [...]
Acer support can go pound sand
March 31st, 2009Acer, quite possible the shittiest, yet most popular, cheap ass computer company out there. Why are they so popular? Because their systems are dirt cheap. Unfortunately you do get what you pay for. You pay for shit, you get shit. Acer shits on it’s customers all day long. I’m pretty sure that e-machines put out [...]
Preinstalled “OEM” Software Needs to STOP
March 11th, 2009This is a long one, but it is really a pet peeve of mine and I don’t know how I haven’t written about this before… I’m sure you all know what this junk is… it’s software that comes installed already on the computer when you buy a pre-built system from companies like Acer, Lenovo, HP, [...]
Update on Boxee/Hulu
March 10th, 2009I’m sure you’re following the situation more closely over at http://blog.boxee.tv/ but I’m glad to see Boxee has made Hulu work on their software again. I’m glad they just didn’t lay down and say “oh well”. Content providers need to learn the consumer will enjoy content they way the consumer wants to, despite what restrictions [...]
My take on the Boxee/Hulu Situation
February 19th, 2009Well, if you haven’t noticed or heard yet, Hulu streaming has been disabled in Boxee. I’m not going to go over WHY it happened, as it’s pretty well explained by the Boxee and Hulu teams here: Boxee on the Hulu Situation Hulu “Doing Hard Things” What I will do is offer my opinion on it [...]
The GoogleUpdate.exe Plague
February 5th, 2009Seriously… what the hell is up with this shit Google? I have now noticed this on all 3 machines I use on a regular basis… my desktop, my laptop, and my work computer. They all have at least 1 (if not more) GoogleUpdate.exe running on them, and it is hard to get rid of. Even [...]
Messing with Script Kiddies
January 15th, 2009Starting the first week in January, I started noticing my personal server getting pounded with requests looking for roundcube or mantis installs on my system. After doing a bit of research at the Internet Storm Center I realized it was a new vulneribility in these programs and these script kiddies were just scanning servers for [...]
December 31st, 2008, The Day The Zunes Stood Still
December 31st, 2008Apparently all 1st Gen 30G Zunes with the latest firmware update from Microsoft died at midnight, pacific time last night. None are booting up past the loading screen. Even people that had theirs on listening to it… Son of a B….., Right in the middle of Shine on you Crazy Diamond mine crapped out too. [...]
