i went out of town for 4 days which means my workstion was also off for 4 days.
when i got back, my workstation didn’t even want to boot. the screen was blank. there was no error beeps. the power supply was running, the fans were spinning and there’s the usual blinking of the leds of [...]
givens:
desktops are running windows with ms office; file server is running samba on linux
problem:
file ownership of a shared file gets messed up once a user opens, edits and saves the shared file.
what happens in the background is when user1 opens, for example, an excel spreadsheet with a file ownership of nobody.research, excel copies the file [...]
busy. its been web work for the past couple of weeks. i now have two more e-mail addresses and, thankfully, they’re spam-free. at least for now.
i realized that i have an old e-mail address that i still use. by “old” i mean that one of my e-mail addies has been around since 1999. i can [...]
i had a visit from a friend of mine who works as a web designer. she was half way through her pint of ice cream when she came in. i was working on a website and she took one look at the page i was working on and she gave me that knowing smile.
“obssessive/compulsive.”
“what?!?”, i [...]
i don’t know if its the summer weather (hot and toasty), the manila dust (dark and hairy) or just me (ha!) but my cpu temperatures are up. i regularly replace the fan filters but dust and hair still manages to get inside.
i think its time for some desktop spring cleaning. this means disassembling everything in [...]
