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Archive for December, 2006

Spooky Laptop Maintenance

My dad was having trouble with his laptop - for some reason whoever installed the OEM version of Windows XP Pro on it (I don’t know if it was Acer or NCIX) decided to divide the disk space into two equally sized FAT32 partitions.
That created several problems. FAT32 is not known for [...]

Norton Internet Security Dangers

My dad and I spent an hour trying to backup his laptop with NTBackup. It kept hanging, so we guessed the problem might have been the Norton virus checker. Sure enough, disabling Norton Internet Security allowed NT Backup to make some progress (at which point ntbackup failed, because FAT32 can only store [...]

Chomsky vs Snidely Whiplash

From Teenagers Are Ignorant:

The world’s misfortune is less the cause of Snidely Whiplash than of Noam Chomsky-types

Technorati Tags: noam chomsky, chomsky, economics

Missing Youtube Tool

I wrote awhile back that I had stopped using youtube, I have found it convenient to have my videos available on the web. Most of the folks who want to see my vides have subscribed via foldershare, but not all.
I have found posting videos on youtube a total nuiscance typical of a web based [...]