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Where Has the Common Sense Gone?
By ack154 / in Nerdy Things, Random Thoughts / April 6, 2010Being in IT, you would see a lot of stupid things throughout your career... or even every day. Today is no exception. There seems to be a new trojan-laced spam email circulating lately (just starti...
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Dear Microsoft, I Hate You
By ack154 / in Nerdy Things / August 13, 2009And not even for the reasons you might think. This one is something specific. Windows XP Display Properties. Suck. Hard. Ever try to control multiple displays or extended desktop with Windows? It is...
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What Do People Do
By ack154 / in Nerdy Things / August 11, 2009What do people really do for computer problems if they don't know an IT person? I mean I occasionally help out people I know, but what about everyone else? Do that many people really rely on somethin...
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Accessing the Internets, How I Roll
By ack154 / in Nerdy Things / August 5, 2009Being an IT person, I guess I could share what I actually use for my computers daily... nothing fancy or anything, but they get me from a to b on the internets. I have two systems... a desktop that I ...
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I'm a Dork
By ack154 / in Nerdy Things / January 11, 2009I know this. I've accepted it. What now? Well as some of you may or may not know, there is currently a beta of Windows 7 floating around. I was finally able to get a key from the Microsoft site and j...
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I Just Had To!
By ack154 / in Nerdy Things / January 9, 2009Hard drives are getting cheaper. It's like a rule or something. When I first built my system I added one fast 74gb drive for the OS and one 500gb drive for storage. That 500gb drive cost me about $11...
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