Category: Information Technology

I have long wanted to learn/run VMWare in my environment.  Face it, experimenting with something is always better done in one’s own personal, controlled space than it is in, say,… Read more »

So, how was your week?  Mine was rather animated. 

Here’s where I’m going to be documenting the “fixes” I find for the annoying “features” in Firefox.  Most of these features, mind you, are pretty stupid and shouldn’t have been… Read more »

I have just completed the Windows 10 upgrade on my main machine. Yay. Forgive my lack of enthusiasm but I only upgraded because a) I’m a gamer and b) Microsoft… Read more »

Just a short post to report that I finally took a deep breath and went through the motions to clone my 500 GB SSD drive to a new 1 TB… Read more »

NerdFest 2020 began in earnest early this afternoon, once one “Uncle” Dave Brackmann finally arrived at the palatial command center to embark on all sorts of nerddom.  And while a… Read more »

…and “it” is the apparently inevitable upgrade/migration to Windows 10. Yes, it’s true: support for Windows 7 is quickly nearing an end (January 14th, last I heard) and I’m having… Read more »

A while back, I mentioned upgrading my server, and providing “updates as they happen”.  Well, I got so excited during the process that I didn’t stop to provide updates or… Read more »

Say it ain’t so!  Another Chrome annoyance? Yes. This time, it comes in the form of a rather obnoxious “balloon” type thing that appears when you hover over a tab in… Read more »

Yesterday, i received the SAS controller card I’d been waiting for so now I have that, the 1-4 cable, 32GB of RAM and 2 SSD drives (not shown) ready to… Read more »