TAB DUMP! Hello random reader! As you can likely tell from a quick look, I am far less active on this blog than I likely should be to justify its continued maintenance… This said, I’ve had it up for many years and so I don’t see it going away anytime soon… In this spirit of… Continue reading Tab Dump
Category: Tech
Who’s Myspace?: Dear, Future. By the time you are reading this, this will be your present (but it will read ‘facebook’) and you will know that this was now your future. in the past…
Today I found myself up to my eyeballs in long forgotten backups – bad, I know… I should really do some spring cleaning – but odds are that won’t be happening… Sites and projects from nearly a decade ago in some cases – nothing more than 404s or the sort today for the most part…… Continue reading Who’s Myspace?: Dear, Future. By the time you are reading this, this will be your present (but it will read ‘facebook’) and you will know that this was now your future. in the past…
NTFS File System Tunneling (…is stupid …and wrong)
I will keep this short… I’ve already spent far too much time on this easy to work around peculiarity of NTFS and how it associates file meta information under the hood… Consider this console app: http://pastebin.com/66QABWS3 If you were to actually read this (don’t feel too bad if you didn’t – the last link will explain… Continue reading NTFS File System Tunneling (…is stupid …and wrong)
The Lenovo Nightmare – An adventure with customer service of the worse kind
tl;dr – Lenovo has decided that customer support and functional support systems are not important. If you are a masochist, by all means, go buy from lenovo.com. If you don’t like abuse and wasting time, go find another vendor as Lenovo has a long way to come before I or anyone should do business with… Continue reading The Lenovo Nightmare – An adventure with customer service of the worse kind
To CM9 a0.5 or not to CM9 a0.5 – that is the question…
Of course, I have been anxiously watching the development of custom roms for the HP Touchpad… I am really happy to see not one, but TWO releases (Alpha 0 and Alpha 0.5) of CM9 for the Touchpad so far! Great work from the Cyanogenmod team! So far, I have been too gun shy to pull… Continue reading To CM9 a0.5 or not to CM9 a0.5 – that is the question…
Touchpad Mod Upgrades – Bump to Cyanogenmod Alpha 2 and WebOS 3.0.4 while maintaining dual boot heaven (easy)
Note: I performed the below from Ubuntu 11.04 x64 After this process, you will be on CM7 a2 (newest Cyanogenmod – steps 1-2) and WebOS 3.0.4 (newest – steps 3). Once you pull the WebOs update, moboot (what let you pick which OS to boot to) will no longer be the active bootloader. But we… Continue reading Touchpad Mod Upgrades – Bump to Cyanogenmod Alpha 2 and WebOS 3.0.4 while maintaining dual boot heaven (easy)
ASP DropDownList DataBind Woes – Invalid SelectedValue Error
Yesterday, as I was plugging away on an ASP WebForms application to add some new features, I encountered an error I had not yet seen. “SelectedValue which is invalid because it does not exist in the list of items” Although Googling turned up a lot of results, I could not really find anything that fit… Continue reading ASP DropDownList DataBind Woes – Invalid SelectedValue Error
Restarting Vino-Server from CLI
As is often the case, I am posting this here just as much for myself as I am for others Googling this problem… Sometimes Vino-Server on Ubuntu can be flaky, preventing me from logging in, even though it is showing as running. I recently stumbled onto a helpful thread at UbuntuForums that assisted me… Using… Continue reading Restarting Vino-Server from CLI
Stop your laptop from whining at you in Ubuntu…
If you are reading this, chances are you know exactly what I mean when I say “whining laptop”. If you happened here by chance and are still curious, in short, certain Linux kernels will cause certain notebook hardware to emit a high-pitch whining noise – generally it is low in volume, but at times the… Continue reading Stop your laptop from whining at you in Ubuntu…
Microsoft no longer forcing Firefox users into “Classic” mode – “Full” version now available to Firefox users!
So, I logged into my Hotmail account (aka the Spam Dump) and was surprised to find that Microsoft has stopped their blocking of Firefox for the “new” mailbox features…Â A long time user of Firefox, I have simply accepted the petty tactics of MS against Firefox users (it’s not just them, my bank does it… Continue reading Microsoft no longer forcing Firefox users into “Classic” mode – “Full” version now available to Firefox users!