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16 articlesNever assume no one reads the comments in your code
So, a few years back a client of mine was very excited about their recent uptick in web traffic, though it wasnāt very clear why. The client had just finished a...
The Day We Fight Back
Regardless what you think of Edward Snowden, his actions illustrate one thing clearly: The data collected by the NSA is rife with potential for abuse. No matter...
The Bieber Algorithm
So I had to reverse engineer some software we use at the office the other day. It uses a hash to store its current users in a table, and we needed a way to moni...
Equallogic Command Line
Well, we had another failure late last month. The rebuild went fineā¦ and quickly since I had another disk on hand. That disk was supposed to be replace the othe...
EqualLogic with a questionable drive
Wellā¦ last month we had one drive completely fail, which is what these arrays are supposed to protect against. However, when this happened, there were enough ba...
Phone System Error
I honestly dont know what this error message is trying to tell me. Maybe it makes sense if you translate it to chinese.
Lambo tiresā¦
Whats wrong with this picture? For some reason, Walmart is out of stock on 335/30R18 tires. Isnāt that where all Lamborghini owners get their tires?
GCM Computers
MeetNWA interviews my old boss, Gary McLendon. I think GCM Computers is the best computer service center in Northwest Arkansas, but I may be biased since I work...
iOS 4.0 is hereā¦ well almost.
iOS 4.0 is hereā¦ well almost. I managed to get the iOS 4 update going right after noon today. However, I had to go to lunch a hour later, and it hadnt shown any...
Antivirus āFalse Positiveā Problems
My biggest gripe for all Anti-Virus solutions is the amount of false positives. One recent incident I posted about prompted me to completely change AV products....
I dont want to jailbreak my iPhone
Iām catching a lot of flack from my iPhone enabled coworkers for not jailbreaking my phone. Iāve had my 3G for almost a year now, and Iāve been tempted many tim...
vb FormatBytes
Quick function to format bytes in Excel / VBA into human-readable strings. Function FormatBytes(bytes As Double, Optional places As Integer = 0) As String If by...
Whatās wrong with this ad?
Home Subscribe to RSS Feed Whatās wrong with this ad? I just saw this ad on LinkedInā¦ notice anything odd about it? Yes, thats a MacBookā¦ though they fixed it w...
Alltel and SPAM
Alltel HTC Touch Diamond I had a customer come in last week to setup his Alltel HTC Diamond (looks like an iPhone wannabe). We host his POP, but not SMTP (we do...
The Ballmer Peak
http://xkcd.com/323/ Between 0.129% and 0.138% So trueā¦ Maybe thats why my current programming project is taking so longā¦ I havent had a drink in a while.
Bellagio Fountains
Jennifer just posted some videos of our Vegas vacationā¦ The Bellagio fountain was one of the most impressive sights on the strip. http://jenniferforrest.com/vid...