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]

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]

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]

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]

When I got my present workstation last February (for the story, click here), It came with a single 1 TB disk. I planned to put two more in it, since there were supposed to be two free bays. When I opened up the case up to stick the new disks in, one of the bays… [Read More]