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Archive for August 28th, 2009

Replacing the last of the Western Digitals…

by @ Friday, August 28th, 2009. Filed under general

As I have griped in the blog before I have had some serious issues with the 500GB Western Digital drives from a few years ago. This was about the time that the drive warranty changed dramatically (go figure – duh). In the last month I have had several more fail on me, 3 of them […]

Practical Intelligence…

by @ Friday, August 28th, 2009. Filed under quotes

‘To (Robert) Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like “knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for maximum effect.” It is procedural: it is about knowing how to do something without necessarily knowing why you know it or being able to explain it. It’s practical in […]

Windows x64 file redirection from <WINDIR>\SYSTEM32 to <WINDIR>\SYSWOW64 pain…

by @ Friday, August 28th, 2009. Filed under tech

Alternate working title… The super cool PERL backup script I wrote in 1997 doesn’t work on Windows Server 2003 x64 *&(#%^&^# Back in the golden days of Windows NT 4 SP2 or maybe it was SP3 in or around 1997 by then I had a problem I had to solve with automatically backing up some […]

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