Years ago, when I was at Echelon, we worked with several PC manufacturers who had an acronym for the experience that the user had when setting up a computer for the first time: OOBE, pronounced to rhyme with “scoobie” (or, if you are an aging hippie, “doobie”). It stood for Out Of Box Experience. I… [Read More]
They don’t make them like they used to…
…and that’s a good thing. Many years ago, I turned around while I was sitting and pushed a Nikon FM off a bench. It fell about a foot to a stone patio, and the light meter never worked after that. A few years later, my wife set a 35 mm Minox down a little too… [Read More]
Sleep mode
In 1996 or 1997, when I was running engineering at Echelon, Intel sent us a computer to test. It was equipped with special hardware to allow it to go into a low power mode. We called the computer “Dozer.” Dozer occasionally had a hard time waking up. There were jokes about Rip Van Winkle. Around… [Read More]
Drobo: replacing a failed drive
Last week, I swapped a new set of four 2-terabyte drives into one of the Drobo arrays. I formatted the drive as an 8 GB single partition, created the top level directories, and set Vice Versa to work backing up the server on line files. After about two days, all the data had been transferred,… [Read More]
Exchange in the cloud
A few days ago, I came home and turned on my iPod Touch to check email. It said it couldn’t connect to the Exchange server. I went to a computer running Outlook and tried to log on. No dice. I pulled up a remote console window to see what was going on with the Exchange… [Read More]
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