Posted by nathan on 13 May 2008 | Tagged as: Tech Stuff., my life.
This week, I’ve been working on bring back to life a couple of older office computer to turn into day care ‘play’ computers.
I had three old computers, purchased in 2001 (I actually have one computer identical to these still in use), before Windows XP was released, so they all came with Windows 98se installed on [...]
Posted by nathan on 21 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Tech Stuff., polls
In keeping with last week’s question of the week (which Operating System is better-built), we continue this polling this week with:
Posted by nathan on 24 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: New Hope stuff., Tech Stuff., my life.
This afternoon I spent some time testing my MacBook Pro on the New Hope network. With the whole Vista thing (resource hog), I’ve been debating for months if I should:
1. Migrate to Vista
2. Stock up on XP and stick with XP until Vista SP3 comes out.
3. Switch to Ubuntu/Linux.
4. Slow (3-4 year) migration to Mac.
Option [...]
Posted by nathan on 19 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Tech Stuff.
Today I was upgrading a test site on our server, and I accidentally sent the files to New Hope’s live site instead.
The result?
I crashed our website for about 20 minutes until I wised up and was able to restore the files via backup.
O Crap.
So, I have the website back up and running, and now I [...]
Posted by nathan on 16 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Tech Stuff., my life.
I just made a backup of my firewall’s settings, and the thought hit me–’When was the last time I backed up my files?’
O…about three months ago. Not cool!
This past weekend, as I was sorting through photographs, I thought to myself, ‘You know Nathan, you really should create a backup of these photos, just in case.’
So [...]
Posted by nathan on 01 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Tech Stuff., my life.
Ever since my nightmarish issue with an HP notebook computer several years ago, I’ve been on the Dell bandwagon. When Dell started going downhill a couple years ago, I didn’t jump ship, I stayed the course.
I have never experienced any issues with Dell whatsoever (about 10 computers in four years), until this week.
I was installing [...]