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Yearly Archives: 2012

[fixed] Your dad asks iPhone Questions

I don't know how or why I did not know about this series of videos until recently, but you will see a lot more...

Tech Support: 1800’s style

This one's a tall image, scroll to the bottom for the transcript: Transcript via ohnorobot.com: "Dear South Asian Techinical Support Corporation. / I have recently purchased...

Laptops And Milk Do Not Mix [pic]

Chocolate milk on a laptop is very gross.  

Security fail #2: badge problems solved the old fashioned way

Back at my old job, we had a "Configuration Center." It was an area that was dedicated to unboxing and building/deploying new desktops and...

Security fail: This is a a story right out of “Get Smart.”

We had a printer repair contract with a company that did work for Uncle Sam. The new building there was to be a secure...

Brown Friday deal of the day: Rare, vintage Packard Bell

Other possible headlines for this post: "Not surprisingly, the price has been reduced" "What, so the monitor is $20, then?" "I'm not buying it if it doesn't...

Fails in public places: Fast and Furious

It seems a bit ironic that the game "Fast and Furious" would be run on Windows...well, the "Furious" part seems right... via:

Lessons in IT: When IT pros go bad

#1: Tell someone else who knows what they're doing before you fire someone who can damage the company. A former job, right before I was...

The ‘smack technique,’ it works for computers too…

Back in the 90's I was working for a large manufacturing corporation. In these days, we were still transitioning over to ethernet from token-ring,...

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