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Get 3G internet access in Paris, France on your iPad

Posted on June 27, 2010November 1, 2021

If you are a true geek and you are visiting Paris and you have an iPad (if you are a true geek then you do) then your first stop has to be the Louvre. Mary Magdelene may not be buried under the upside down pyramid but there is a shrine just as holy right there…

Mac OSX and the Samsung ML1740 on a network

Posted on September 8, 2009November 1, 2021

I’m mostly posting this so I don’t forget since it seems like I have to reinstall my printer driver often enough to be annoying but not often enough to remember. I run my Samsung 1740 on my wife’s computer and share it to the other computers on my network. The driver isn’t built in so…

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My Macbook Pro, the Single Link DVI cable and the Not so Genius Apple Bar

Posted on March 1, 2009November 1, 2021

I and Callie took the kids to Salt Lake a while back so they could go to the Children’s Museum at the Gateway. They had a great time. At the end of the day we wandered around the area a bit and since there is an Apple store I dropped in to see if they…

So I am a Big Geek

Posted on December 4, 2008November 1, 2021

I had to reboot the server in my office closet this evening. That’s when I realized that I am a really big nerd. I have a server in my closet with RAID 5 to backup the other computers in the house. I have so many now that I actually have to count them to remember…

Maybe I Should be a Computer Tech

Posted on December 4, 2008November 1, 2021

My wife’s computer finally died. I mean really died. For about ten minutes I could push the power button and it would just barely turn on and then it would immediately shut down. Then it stopped turning on all together. It is an old Dell Dimension 8400. There are two things that can go wrong…

New Apple Laptops – I’m so Excited

Posted on October 9, 2008November 1, 2021

I’ve been wanting to buy a Macbook pro for a while now. I hate to be yet another one of those Apple nuts but I have been waiting for Oct 14 ever since the rumor came out that Apple would be announcing new laptops on that date. Since they hadn’t said anything I was getting…

Amazon S3, Jungle Disk and the new way to backup

Posted on September 30, 2008November 1, 2021

Not long ago I wrote a rather unflattering review of Mozy. I feel bad in a way because I still believe that the concept is good. I haven’t played with the software recently but I am guessing that my voice was loud enough to influence significant change. I am fine with that. There are a…

Mozy.com’s Backup Software is Shit

Posted on February 22, 2008November 1, 2021

Yes you read that right. I used to love this company. The concept is great – backup your data online for dirt cheap. Install the software and away you go. They backup everything and even encrypt your data for security. You get cheap backups and they get a little bit of money. I thought this…

Email Sucks

Posted on February 1, 2008October 25, 2021

In a job interview a long time ago I was asked what I hate to do the most.  At the time my response was, “write USB device drivers.” I had to do that at Sorenson Vision and I hated it.  When you write device drivers you can really mess up a system. You screw up…

No I Won’t Fix Your @!#$!@#$ Computer

Posted on October 8, 2007November 1, 2021

I am a software engineer. That means a lot of things. It means I can write code. It means I can talk about servers and argue about what programming languages are best (Check out PPH for the standard measure for programming languages.) It means I can build a cool website or write scripts that help…

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