Year: 2006

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remembering an old friend

Today I sit in front of my computer listening to Herb Alpert remembering an old friend and mentor whom I haven’t seen in a long time. I used to spend hours at his little house on Center Road playing games on his new 286, 386, and 486 computers as the years ticked by. His wonderful wife always had a smiling…
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another online quiz

You scored as Engineer. Military Engineer. Your job is usually overlooked, but without you nothing gets done. While you sometimes annoyed at this, and you know the only time people come to you is when there’s something wrong. You understand that you are the heart and soul of any organization with honesty and nice work ethic to boot. "I need…
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Vista user profile hell resolved

Well after a bit of tracking things down and booting to safe mode a few times I figured out that the combination of mozy.com’s backup service and windows onecare is what caused the problem. Looks like mozy was trying to backup my registry file while onecare tried to scan it and poof…  windows couldn’t access it when i logged in……
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Vista user profile hell

Well, after a little while running Vista I’ve had a weird thing happen. My user profile fails to load on a fairly new install… Luckily I do most of my work in a VPC image or I’d have been rebuilding my stuff for a week. As it is I’m not sure exactly what the cause is but the event log…
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SNOW!

We got snow today…  I haven’t seen a lot of snow since moving here in ’99, but if this keeps up I may. Here are some photos…

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