Amazon shipped the Windows 7 Upgrade UPS ground instead of the 2nd day air I specified, so it won’t be here until next week. I will use the time to make friends with my new printer. I’ve had an Epson 3800 for a couple of years now. I got it when the baryta-coated fiber papers… [Read More]
Another Win 7 upgrade: preparations
I plan to attempt another in-place upgrade from Vista to Windows 7. This one is a real hard case. I have a Falcon Northwest water cooled gaming machine (the way they think of it; I thought of it as a great photo editing machine when I bought it about three years ago). It shipped with… [Read More]
Don’t tell me what it is
In the mid eighties, I wandered into a dive shop looking for new fins. On the counter was a coffee table book of underwater photographs. The title was Within a Rainbowed Sea, and the photographer was somebody I’d never heard of named Chris Newbert. I picked it up and leafed through it, my jaw dropping… [Read More]
A Windows 7 upgrade
Normally, I don’t upgrade my OS until the new one has been out at least six months. Conventional wisdom in an industrial setting is to wait for Service Pack 1, but I don’t wait that long at home. Nevertheless, I’ve been reading about Windows 7 for a long time now, and I’m intrigued. There’s always… [Read More]
Upgrading a Drobo
A few days ago I was down in the server room, and I noticed an orange light next to the top disk in Drobo2 (my second Drobo box). I brought up the Drobo dashboard, and it said that my disks were OK, but that the array was getting full, and I should install a larger… [Read More]
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