Author: todd

I had the most infuriatingly bad technical support experience yesterday, with Hewlett-Packard. All I was trying to do was make my networked printer work with my new PC. Somewhere along the way in transferring stuff from the old to the new, Windows XP lost its printer settings. So I uninstalled the printer and the driver… Continue reading typical bad technical support

You know what I want for my Windows XP PC? I want some software that I can run and it’ll make other applications’ windows snap to a grid on the desktop. In other words, I want it to be that when I resize the window for any program, it’ll only resize in increments of N… Continue reading snap to grid software

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) – Beth and I just got back from this movie. It was good fun. I’m surprised IMDB users haven’t rated it higher.

I’m now totally switched over to my new PC, which I called Barracuda. I moved it over to my desk, after tossing my old PC aside. I’ll come back to that later and install Linux on it. In other news, I got 3 vaccines today: tetanus, hepatitis A, and hepatitis B. They said I need… Continue reading the switch is made

request – I enjoyed this. I imagine this budding young actor had a good time making it.

Lowercase Tee – If I had a kid, I’d buy one of these.

The New York Times > Technology > After Foray Into Space, Pilot Says Rocket ‘Flew Like a Dream’ – 2 down, 1 to go!

I’m impressed. The MoveMe software worked quite well. I apparently moved all my applications and data files over to my new PC. In fact, it moved some apps over that I thought I got rid of long, long ago! It got about 80% of the apps right, with the other 20% needing some manual repair… Continue reading MoveMe worked pretty well

Well, I took the day off work and spent about half the day building my new PC. In the end, I decided to take the full ATX size motherboard that I originally bought by accident, and the non-ECC RAM I bought when I learned the ECC wouldn’t work, and base my new PC off that.… Continue reading the new PC shall be Barracuda

Well, my project to build a new PC has been the typical frustrating mess these things usually turn out to be. By Friday, all the various parts had arrived. I spent some time Friday evening and Saturday putting it all together. And when I turned the new PC on, nothing happened. Not even the beep… Continue reading building my new PC