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This post has been merged with several others, and moved to a new location. You can view it here: Make Vista Look Like Win2k Thank you.

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Backup drive #1 died today after a short battle with the controller card. The plug was pulled after doctors noticed that it was spinning up but there was no brain activity. It is survived by one operating system drive, four grand data drives, and two great-grand backup drives. There will be a small private service [...]

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One of the nice things about Vista Ultimate is the ability to easily use the ‘Previous Versions’ tools that are built into the operating system. Previous Versions (Also known as Volume Shadow Copy) is a feature that was introduced in Server2003, and a precursor of it exists in Windows XP as ‘System Restore’. On server [...]

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http://improbable.com/ig/ How else would you honor the confirmation that coke is an excellent spermicide?

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I had a bit of trouble finding out why a computer I was working on this week kept overheating. The processor fan wasn’t too clogged up, and other than a light coating of tar from cigarette smoke it wasn’t too hard to blow out and wipe clean. Then I took off the front, where most [...]

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On Friday at work I was cleaning up and refurbishing an old laptop so I could give it to a new employee when I accidentally broke a piece off of the crappy little heatsink inside. The remaining chunk of heatsink wouldn’t stay put on its own, so I reached in my pocket, pulled out a [...]

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*phone rings* Me: I.T. Support. This is Clem. End User: Hey, ever since you gave me that new computer two months ago I’m missing the icon for %Application%. Can you put it back? Me: Wow, two months, huh? How often do you normally have to use %Application%? End User: Oh, I never use it. I [...]

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For many years many of us have been devotees to SETI, the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence. The SETI group was based out of Berkeley and would occasionally record raw data from radio telescope arrays and then would have their volunteers (people like us) process it. You can read the Wikipedia article on SETI here. The [...]

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