I’m unusual in that I’m a technology guy who prefers a cell phone that is simply a phone without a lot of bells and whistles. For this reason, I continued carrying my trusty Audiovox 9100 phone for six years. Yes, I carried the same cell phone for six years.
Now, the End Has Come. [...]
Question: What if you want to listen to music while your iPod is plugged into a computer?
Say you want to listen to your iPod at work, but discover that your iPod’s battery is dead. If you’re like me, you probably have a perfectly good computer at your desk with perfectly good USB ports which [...]
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It seems that my Valve Steam account has been deleted. I can’t log in, and my account doesn’t show up in my friend’s accounts either. Further, the “retrieve lost account” functionality isn’t sending me a temporary password.
The last time I logged into Steam was on Wed Dec 5 to play Team Fortress 2, so [...]
When I tried to log in to my blog this morning, I was blocked by the Bad Behavior plugin. To get into my website, I had to SSH into the host’s server and delete the Bad-Behavior directory from the wp-content/plugins directory in my WordPress installation. (Deleting a plugin’s files from the plugin directory is the [...]
My installation of Norton Internet Security 2007 stopped working recently. The main dialog said that I had a “subscription problem”. This didn’t make a whole lot of sense, since I still have at least 6 months remaining on my Norton subscription.
As it turns out, I received an email from Symantec recently, advertising that the latest [...]
I received a replacement power supply from Antec yesterday — a NeoPower 500, which is a bit of an upgrade from my previous NeoPower 480. I’m going to install it this weekend, and we’ll see how it works out. Hopefully this one will last for many years (knock on wood).
My computer’s power supply, an Antec NeoPower 480, failed last weekend. It is two years old, which means that it is still under warranty. I contacted Antec through their website and received an RMA number within a couple of days; the power supply is now on its way back to Antec. Fortunately, I still have [...]
Checking my stats logs this morning, I noticed an interesting search engine term. Apparently, entering “cal poly band” 2007 pictures into either Google or Yahoo brings up my copy of the LA Times story Peacenik paper fawns over antiwar mom within the first few pages.
Odd.
At work, I’m experimenting with a code profiling tool called DevPartner Performance Analysis Community Edition from Compuware.
The user manual — a 410 page PDF file, yuck — contains this nugget of wisdom on page 228:
When you have finished reviewing performace data you can save the session file.
1. Close the session file window in [...]
Comment timeout
More than 90% of the traffic to this blog is merely spambots trying to post spam as comments and trackbacks. Akismet catches almost all of it, so I can mostly ignore it. However, that traffic places an undue burden on the server and clogs my access logs. Since there’s very little real commenting on this [...]
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