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This is a pretty common question folks ask about on the internet. They bought a new machine with 4GB of RAM and Windows is only telling them it has some lesser amount between 3GB – 4GB available so they think their machines are broken or that Windows is broken. Here is an excellent article discussing […]

So wow, looked at this list of recalled Peanut Butter products for the first time today… http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm Rating 3.00 out of 5

Random super bowl thoughts… 1. Boring Springsteen put on a poor half time show. 2. Not sure why he wouldn’t have closed with Born in the USA with red white and blue fireworks. Likely would have been huge right now. 3. Cardinals did not deserve to win. 4. Cardinals offense and defense both were explosive […]

The conference formerly known as The Directory Experts Conference (DEC) and now known as The Experts Conference (TEC) For Directory & Identity is now on my itinerary for March. I really didn’t think I was going to be able to pull it off this year and by some spit, luck, and a miracle I was […]

Ok so how about we let the future decide on what is and isn’t history and how about we get to work on getting our collective asses out of the hole we put ourselves in. I would much rather put my time and focus and energy on that versus getting sprained elbows patting ourselves on […]

Apparently a new Sonic Drive-In… This last weekend we had 6-9 inches of snow in the Mt. Clemens area of Michigan. At the same time a new Sonic has opened up here (probably only 4-5 inches by the point these pics were taken). The traffic to this place is unbelievable. The nearest Sonic to this […]

Happy New Year everyone. Let’s hope for a much better year this year than the last. 🙂 and just think… Next year it will be 2010… Unbelievable to me… I still feel like the year 2000 vigil just happened and that was so long ago… Rating 3.00 out of 5

Merry Christmas to everyone.   If you don’t celebrate Christmas then Happy/Merry/Whatever <insert holiday>. 🙂   Basically…. just have an awesome Saturnalia/Winter Solstice/Yule/Festival of Lights based celebration. Rating 3.00 out of 5

A couple of my coworkers live in New Hampshire and have been without power since last week due to the ice storms. One of them has come up with a creative method for keeping his work computer and Internet up and running… A few marine batteries (from a trolling motor if I recall correctly) and […]

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/12/12/microsoft-workers-set-to-recieve-a-bar-on-campus Rating 3.00 out of 5