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when i blog, i don't mention where i work. all you know is that i work for a major insurance company. you'll understand the anonymity after you read this. remember the software space shuttle launch last month? remember how i spent two hours writing an app
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8/26/2009 10:58:15 PM
after a long day at work (11.5 hours), i got home only to be greeted by a loud whining sound coming from the server. "great", i muttered, "i just installed the fastest sata hard drive in the known universe and it's already dying?". when i stuck my head in
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8/26/2009 10:31:12 PM
recent activity indicates that this site is #1 on google for home computer lab pictures and #2 on google image search for the same. therefore i think it's time to refresh you on my home computer lab and server rack. even though it's only been three days s
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8/19/2009 6:37:27 PM
at work, we're migrating our source control repositories from visual sourcesafe to team foundation server 2005. part of this entails project move-code, the migration from vss and cruisecontrol.net to tfs and a proprietary alternative build mechanism that
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8/19/2009 5:13:43 PM
the lab has been reorganized more or less as i had planned it out a week ago. i haven't yet ordered the additional 4 dell monitors, nor the mounting arms, so the upper row of monitors is just sitting on the shelves on the back row of tables. i also rotate
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8/16/2009 4:47:33 PM
i use microsoft security essentials as my antivirus/antimalware solution. the microsoft security response center gets the reports of virii and malware first. sometimes the perpetraitors even report the flaws to microsoft so they can fix it. it's rare, but
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8/14/2009 10:17:31 PM
my personal home server is now running the fastest serial ata hard drive in the known universe. true to the name, it's stupid fast.
windows server 2008 enterprise edition has been installed on the drive. normally $4,000, microsoft accidentally gave m
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8/14/2009 7:25:56 PM
my server's new velociraptor hard drive has arrived, according to my newegg order status page. they delivered it at 1:30 pm, but failed to add that little detail to the order details until 5:30. by that time the office had closed and i have to go pick it
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8/13/2009 5:56:59 PM
recently i downloaded windows 7 rtm and installed it on saturday. i was driving to best buy to buy an internal dvd drive. i had been using an external drive, and was sick of the driverless usb 1.1 speeds (12mbps) whenever i install operating systems. the
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8/13/2009 12:51:54 AM
dad showed me a technique as a child to reorganize a room. you take a piece of paper and cut out smaller pieces, to scale, for each major object in the room. now, in the 21st century, i prefer an even geekier route. i've used rhino3d 2.0 for this purpose
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8/10/2009 2:06:14 AM
i have ordered the new hard drive i mentioned earlier: the western digital velociraptor wd1500hlfs. it stores a paltry 150gb, but spins at 10,000 rpm and boasts a 16mb cache. the cache isn't huge for modern drives, but quite plentiful for a drive this siz
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8/9/2009 2:53:48 PM
i have successfully downloaded and installed windows 7 rtm from microsoft connect. i don't actually see any differences from the rc so far, which means of course seven has been stable for some time now. i've been using windows 7 since november. they gave
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8/9/2009 1:57:33 PM
we all know there are lots of paypal scams out there. generally, they ask you to click here and go to paypal. this if course is a fake website where you log in and receive an error. this one is different. i received this email today: from: service [mailto
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8/7/2009 3:54:19 PM
today's blog post is brought to you by this area. in this case, you are going south on lexington, approaching woodmen on your way to rangewood. at the light at lexington and woodmen, there are two straight-through lanes, the right of which is also a right
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8/4/2009 6:17:01 PM
the software space shuttle launch payload finally ran a week ago and everything went smoothly. against all odds and the merciless logic of the universe itself, i succeeded in getting a tiny data fix tool deployed and run in production. 2.5 million records
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8/4/2009 4:37:21 AM
the software space shuttle launch payload finally ran a week ago and everything went smoothly. against all odds and the merciless logic of the universe itself, i succeeded in getting a tiny data fix tool deployed and run in production. 2.5 million records
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8/4/2009 3:53:46 AM
the windows 7 rtm package will be available for download to beta testers on aug 6, 2009. sorry, people who participated in the public beta aren't eligible. i was part of the private beta, as i was in windows vista, and again i get a free copy. w00t! they
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