I was in the middle of taking my official copy of OS X Snow Leopard and restoring a disk image of it to a USB Flash drive (you know, to make installation faster… yeah – that’s the ticket), and I came across this problem I wasn’t used to – Snow Leopard threw an error like … Read more
People wonder sometimes why I’m “raging” as a tech support person. I understand that it can be frustrating to have to call tech support to begin with – it’s not even the real jackasses that make me the angriest. It’s people who can’t follow directions – they can’t walk the line, so to speak, to … Read more
So, on the bright side of things, the last round of password expirations is done. Those were some hellish three weeks, I’ll tell you what. My job decided that we needed to come into compliance with state regulations on password security. This is a good thing. They did this by force-expiring everyone’s passwords in batches, … Read more
I’ve heard from several of my fellow bloggers that there’s been a recent PR update again, as they tend to do every few months or so. I know I had an application in to get my PR reinstated, or to at least have a fair shot at re-earning it. My blog is all no-follow, I … Read more
Apparently, Sci-Fi has decided to change their name and adopt the new moniker “SyFy” – stating that they’d like to get away from the “geeky nerd in the basement of his parent’s house eating Cheetos and drinking Mountain Dew while updating their apt repositories and setting up mirrors of their favorite Buffy web site and … Read more
Here’s what I wore today for St. Patrick’s Day: I would have worn the necklaces and other garb, but this was a little neater and cleaner for work. I was already sort of pushing it by wearing the “show me your shamrocks” t-shirt. I like the “Eat, Drink, and be Irish” button though. Tonight after … Read more
Haha. Maybe. At 6:31 (P.M., EST) and 30 seconds tomorrow Friday, UNIX time will read 1234567890 and the apocalypse may very well be upon us. Actually, probably not. We won’t even really have any cool computer glitches to speak of, since Linux has been using 64-bit time for quite some time now, which means the … Read more