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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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I’m setting here waiting for a form to go through and I’m twitteling my thumbs so I thought I’d write something. And now it’s gone through! 😀 Maybe I should stop and go back to my work. Anyway, don’t buy an all in one HP printer (OfficeJet 6310xi to be exact). Junk! And oh, HP […]