Tag: Computers


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  • Discovered in the wild… Your mission if you choose to accept it is to record debug information now. This uninstaller will self-destruct in 10 seconds. 10… 9… 8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… …BOOM! Pure awesomeness.

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  • A recent comment I made regarding to another blogger regarding my interest in getting an MLIS: Huh… Back in college, MLIS was part of my career path. That seems like forever ago, but it was only less than eight years? It was a natural fit for me. As a university student, working in the library,…

  • Waste Not

    Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of forwarded or group invites for kinds of things about not buying gas for a day, not buying gas from the two largest oil companies, or even everyone not using electricity for an hour (One Hour NO Power). These are ambitious endeavors for problems I agree are present. My…

  • Some of my latest work has been in chasing cheaters or “Vista ate my homework” claims. Some background: I work for a project that hosts online classes for 32 of the 35 universities in our system. We have about 125,000 users who have performed at least 100 actions this term. We have had about 50…

  • So I scanned some baby pictures I found for posting on Flickr. I noticed the memory gage on Corsair (I’m a geek, I name my computers) was near full, so rather than deal with swapping, I clicked the Close button on iTunes. It reclaimed about 1/3 my memory usage which is exactly what I wanted.…

  • I took a college course on FORTRAN in college. At the time I was a Pre-Engineering major with aspirations to transfer to a program requiring it. In my entire educational career I haven’t taken much in programming classes: QBasic Fortran Java Actually, that is all the programming languages I’ve learned (and through lack of use…

  • Insanity

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    . Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein, (attributed) The Quotations Page Very nice! I’m nearly insane from working with computers.