Computers Suck

Software Developer Becomes Ice Road Trucker

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Watch tonight, 9 PM ET/PT, and you’ll see how I tossed in my career as a Software Developer and became one of the top stars in Ice Road Trucker.
Joking …
Sometimes you have weird dreams like tossing in the towel and taking a life of a less stressful job like a Truck Driver making runs up […]

Goodbye Quicken 2005 Hello Quicken 2008

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Guess what? On May 1, 2008 your Quicken 2005 will become NFG when you can’t access your financial accounts anymore.  Now of course, if you enter all your records by hand, you don’t have to worry. Perfectly great software going down the drain.
Please, someone at Intuit tell me why?  The last time I had to […]

Sometimes I Just Hate Computers

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Simply put, one of our computers crashed and I’m not too happy about it. Old Faithful, PLMS1 Linux file and email server, RIP. Now instead of enjoying my weekend, I’m going through the process of restoring email, Perforce and whaever else was lingering on that file server.
I’ve been planning to retire PLMS1 […]

The Dragon Increases Your Productivity

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Walt at 365 To Freedom wrote a very good review on Dragon NaturalSpeaking. I totally agree with him that it is a very productive tool that everyone should purchase. Walt, this is what I think of the product:
Excerpt From My First Dictation (unedited):
This is a review of Dragon natural speaking. […]

02h — You’re Killing Me Today

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

I really didn’t want to go into work today but I keep getting a Check Condition (SCSI Status Code 02h). I should have hooked up the Fibre Channel Analyzer up last night, but with the “Great California Rain Storm” pounding down, I left the office to pick up my wife before the real […]

Life Span of a Mouse

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Today was the first day I had to change the batteries in my Microsoft Natural Mouse. The two Energizer AA batteries that came with the mouse ran out of juice after about four months of use.
The mouse got a new life with some old 1800 mAh rechargeable batteries I found in the garage. (I […]

I Killed My Windows 2003 Server … and Was Happy!

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

I managed to kill my Windows 2003 server the other day. It happened when I was upgrading it to Service Pack #2 and it ran out of disk space and couldn’t revert back to the previous version.
You would think that 1.7G is plenty of space to upgrade, but no….
The server was an old […]

The Natural is Very Natural

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

At the time of my last post, The Natural is not so Natural, I was having some difficultly getting use to the Microsoft Natural Mouse. But after a few days, I’m finding out that the pain in my wrist is going away!
I’m also holding unnatural mice at the same angle as the Natural Mouse. […]

Smoking Motherboards

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

I managed to fry my motherboard with a little help from Southern Cal Edison. They’ve been having power outages in Thousand Oaks with the last one causing all my servers to shutdown after the UPS ran out of juice.
ClknGo Server 1 (cngs1) is a Win2k server that automatically shuts down via a signal […]