When Geeks Cry (Part 3)

(A little technology rant about how it has recently let me down.)
Part 1
Part 2
I’m big on backups.  I backup incrementally every few days, and a full backup once a month.
Of course, I wasn’t always like that.  Backups were more of a chore when trying to backup your PC to 50 floppies, or 20 CDs.  Man, [...]

When Geeks Cry (Part 2)

(This is a rant about technology, and how it has recently let me down.)
Part 1 here.
I had left our laptop for days trying to get the hard drive to work again.  It had been running SpinRite for several days and was making slow progress.  There were several sectors of the hard drive with a big [...]

When Geeks Cry (Part 1)

I consider myself a geek.  I’m an engineer by trade, and so I’m always trying to figure how stuff works, what’s wrong with it and how to fix it.  That’s just how I roll.
So when my wife called last week saying that she was having trouble with our laptop, I wasn’t too worried.
And then when [...]

Sayonara, Symantec

The laptop that we got a few months ago came with Norton Internet Security 2007 and a three month free subscription.  I almost uninstalled it the the day we got the PC, but hesitated long enough and thought, “Well I can at least try it out.”
It seemed heavy from the get-go, and I ended up [...]

iPhone Review (by a 10 year old)

After all the buzz about the iPhone that you hear out of just about every technology news outlet around, I found the following conversation quite refreshing:
“So, ~D~, are you glad that the iPhone is finally out?  They’ve finally started selling them.”
“i-what?”
“iPhone.”
“iPhone!? What’s that?”
“Never mind.”
Ignorance is bliss.

On the Fritz

Our main PC, a Dell E510, stopped working about a week ago.  It just wouldn’t boot up.  At all.
After poking around it some, I tried measuring the voltages from the power supply with my multi-meter.  They weren’t reading correctly, so I naturally assumed that the power supply had gone bad.
I ordered a replacement supply from [...]

Skype and the Parental Units

I tried out Skype last year when they were running their special where you could call any land line phone for free.  But once they started charging again, I gave it up.  I don’t really have anyone to “skype” because my family isn’t all that tech savvy.  No offense, but they just don’t have the [...]

Preoccupied

Posting has been light around here, but it really is only because I’ve been preoccupied with working on our churches web site.  Not that I know much about HTML and CSS and such, but being the sound ministry coordinator, I’ve been posting the sermons online, and have been noticing the “old-schoolness” of the web site.
(I [...]