Archive for June, 2004

Beer and The Buffalo Theory (2004-6-21)

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Whoo hoo! New hard drive is done (2004-6-19)

  Yay!  The new hard drive is installed and fully loaded (restoring data was a process that lasted approximately forever!) I can now report that the backup/restore utility in Windows XP works pretty darn well.  There were only two episodes of weirdness that I've encountered: I had to re-join the local Domain before I could [...]

Slow Restore (2004-6-19)

Backup/restore capability is cool, but jeez it takes a long time to restore 20-ish Gigs of data to a new drive. 

New BlogJet is Out (2004-6-15)

BlogJet V1.1.0.20 is out now.  Of course, I think it's been out for a while, and I'm just now getting around to installing it.  I'm such a luddite. Anyway, if you're looking for an excellent Blog tool (that's out-of-the-box compatible with Blogware), this is far and away the best I've found. 

Danger, Will Robinson (2004-6-15)

Looks like the hard drive is really going to fail this time.  It was threatening failure a few weeks ago, but seemed to straighten up, but apparently it wasn't really happy.  Today it has gotten hung up several times, and I've found the computer spontaneously rebooted and unable to see the drive more than once [...]