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Back-Up Crash and Burn (update)

June 23rd, 2009

So I realized that I forgot to give an update as to what happened with the pitiful external hard drive.
“TS” took the HD to a local disk repair shop, who (after some confusion) opened up the case to discover that when the drive landed, it grounded out in 3 places. This means that there were [...]

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When the Back-Up Crashes

January 22nd, 2009

What do you do when your back up crashes? I’ll tell you what I did.. Freak out! Most of my crap stuff are backed up on DVDs and my .5 TB MyBook external. Had I known how crappy fragile the MyBook was, I would’ve jumped on my annual back up a [...]

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FavIcons = Important

November 24th, 2008

I updated the favourites icon (FavIcon) on the EmaCartoon.com page last week.  I told a friend subsequently thereafter, and was promptly thanked on behalf of all System Administrators.
What?  Why?  How could a measly 16 pixel x 16 pixel image have such an impact to be thanked on behalf of all SysAdmins?  So I did what [...]

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We discovered something amusing..

January 11th, 2008

Today, at work, we discovered something amusing. My manager had previously installed Netscape Navigator onto his work computer, and since we work on web publishing, he later installed Opera so we can see how webpages will look in the different browsers. Makes sense, right? Well, turns out Opera overwrote the navigator.exe file [...]

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