Drat! My production machine has started to act up lately. Yesterday was a pretty extreme example, as this trace from Event Viewer will show: The system has been getting increasingly, but not unbearably flaky over the past 3-4 months. My symptoms include: no records being written to my Reliability Monitor files (I’m pretty sure this …
Category Archive: Letters from the Ed
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Get the iPhone/Pad/Pod (iOS) Windrivers without installing iTunes
I’ve got numerous PCs around here and there — I can see two desktops and two laptops as I sit here in my office, and there are two more laptops and one SFF desktop elsewhere in our domicile at this moment; I’ve also got four laptops out on loan right now to various friends and relations. My wife …
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USB 3.0 SandForce Flash Drives: True Value or False Economy?
I’m in a bit of a quandary on an interesting subject. I just purchased a 128 GB USB 2.0 Flash drive — a Centon DataStick Sport — that I picked up on special from TigerDirect for about $65 (as I write this blog, you can pick them up at Amazon for about $80). It seemed …
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Dell XPS 13 Leaves Great First Impression
Through a strange series of events, I got selected to fill Dave Strom’s inestimable shoes at the Dell Customer Advisory Panel (aka DellCAP) meeting in 2011. Since then, I’ve been a member of that sometimes stormy, sometimes sedate, but always interesting group and have provided my input and insight — such as they are — …
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Upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion
When I got the news yesterday that the latest 10.8 version of OS X, aka “Mountain Lion,” was available, I jumped on the opportunity to download and install the new OS upgrade for a mere $19.99 at the Apple Store. I’m not sure if it was heavy demand for the approximately 4 GB download file, …
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