Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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They Made in 2017, 2 Billion 350 Million Dollars In Profit
Ever heard of Costco? That big wholesale place that you have to pay to go shop at, deal with big parking lots, traffic and wait in line to pump gas? That place that looks like a warehouse and makes you buy 36 Sharpie’s at one time? By the way, Costco doesn’t market or advertise outside…
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Givers and Takers
Today I was reading an article about Costco and there was something that really stood out to me. To loosely quote from the January 2012 “Costco Connection” magazine. — Several years ago a for Costco clothing buyer was able to purchase a large quantity of high-end name-brand jeans at an extremely low price, and the…
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Camera’s at intersections around Pima County???
So I’m wondering what these are? They started appearing around the northwest side of town in Pima County about a year ago. There is only one at each intersection. I’m assuming they are cameras… but what for? This is at Romero and Wetmore. This is at Romero and Ruthrauff. This is at Wetmore and Flowing…
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Recoverying a TrueCrypt file inside a Vista EFS
Today I’ve been working on trying to recover a TrueCrypt file that was placed inside a Vista EFS folder (the Vista machine isn’t accessible but all the data still is). So I’m now reading through http://www.beginningtoseethelight.org/efsrecovery/ to see if I can get the EFS working on a new system then I can open the TrueCrypt…
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Runtime Software’s GetDataBack and RAID Reconstructor review
Last week I had a laptop failure. I’m not sure yet if it was software or hardware based but basically I couldn’t get anywhere past the BIOS booting up. This laptop has a RAID 0 configuration. Hard drives didn’t appear to be going out so my guess is the RAID controller failed (as I could…
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Little Things Story
Here’s another “little things” story! I love Skittles (the chewy fruit candy)! Every year when us boys and dad would go hunting with grandpa he’d buy us our favorite candy. That was about the only time we’d get candy in a year, so it was a treat. Then one year dad decided that the health…
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Electrified.com – incredible search and great prices
Went to make a purchase for a projector light bulb for client this morning. Looked around at a few sites. Ok, prices, poor searches took quite awhile to find the lamp on some sites (and some didn’t even have it, or had 127 pages of results :/ ). Noticed that Electrified.com had a lot of…
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LimeService and LimeSuvey
Setup an account with LimeService (which offers 20 MB of free bandwidth for hosting the LimeSurvey application). Seemed sort of ok. Seems to be still hanging on setting up the account (or so it says on the profile page but I was able to just go to the admin URL and start setting up a…
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Word 2007 – mouse not working text area – add ins conflicting
Synopsis: Mouse doesn’t work in Word 2007 (text field areas and dialog boxes), appears to be add-in issue, can’t get to the Add-in tab when running with administrator rights as mouse doesn’t work in Options dialog box, so can’t disable add-ins (working in Safe Mode or with the /a switch also doesn’t work as you…
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Toshiba Laptop problems
20080706 – AVG picked up virus from site mom was visiting to get song lryics20080708 – Microsoft sent an update that conflicted with Zone Alarm (didn’t update Zone Alarm with the fix until 20080710 or 11 (I think it was Thursday evening though). Maybe even Saturday.20080712 – Installed TrueCrypt20080712 or 13 – Chloe reported having…
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