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Why I hate my Windows PC
At work, I am blessed with a HP Elitebook 8460p (15 inch wide screen, core i5) laptop. It has OK specs, and I pimped it out to 16 G of ram. But it is dog slow. We probably have 2 – 3 updates a week pushed to us that require a reboot. I have to…
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Crap, the frost we had wasn’t hard enough.
The house behind us has a large “shade” tree. It has an enormous quantity of fern like foliage that does a good job cutting the sun that beats down on our back yard. All good right? Except that when it loses its foliage, it dumps an incredible amount into our pool. How much? I have…
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GoDaddy can kiss my ass
There are many valid reasons to hate GoDaddy web hosting, from their soft-porn advertisements, to their owner’s proclivity to go big game hunting in Africa, to the barrage of pushy marketing of their goods and services (no, I don’t want to add domains today). Today though, I will be complaining about their support and their…
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Cyclists that drive me nuts
A recent post I mentioned that I would follow up with my irritation with Arizona cyclists. In that post I mentioned the insane practice that is widespread of cycling on the sidewalks, that greatly increases the hazards to people walking. Today, I am going to grumble about cyclists who are unfamiliar with the rules of…
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Arizona Quirks
No secret is the fact that I moved from Tucson to Chandler last summer. So far, the experience has been great. Roads are better maintained, there are streetlights, and most of the neighborhoods are well planned, and laid out with plenty of green space. My wife and I compare it to “Sunnyvale” where no dangerous…
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Fucking skimming scammers
A week and a half ago, my Wife bought gas at a Quick Trip in Tucson. Apparently, some shitball skimmer had jacked the pump she used, and lifted her credit card information. We came back from a short holiday in San Diego, checked out bank account, and found some sleazeball had used Western Union to…
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How come really smart people are so dumb sometimes?
Just had an ambush call. (that is when Sales invites you on a call, but “forgets” to clue you in on what is to be discussed). Needless to say, some pretty deep hip waders were needed. The whole premise was that we failed to accomplish some perform…
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A fucking shame – Boss 302 Mustang
A wicked american piece of heavy metal, a real muscle car, the Mustang 302 Boss. A bitchen car from 1969 and 1970 has been re-introduced. A worthy successor. However, it is a fucking crime against humanity to defenestrate such an awesome machine w…
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Losing faith in my fellow geeks
I have long thought that us “geeks” who spend a large fraction of our existence working with, and trying to improve technology were a cut above. Both emotionally and mentally. This belief has been shattered. Two threads on Slashdot recently showed…
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Special ring of hell : PC manufacturers that do dumb things
I have recently changed jobs, and as part of my standard kit when I joined was a brand new HP Elitebook 8460p. Not a bad system, a pretty peppy Intel Core i5, and a Sandy Bridge chipset. It came with 4G of Ram, and our standard Win 7 x64 image. SH…