Monthly Archives: December 2008

I made the mistake of showing this to Trey

Posted on December 21, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

Now he wants to build a Hoth diorama with Legos. Awesome job brickplumber.  

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Very cool HD video of Jupiter and one of its moons taken from the Hubble telescope

Posted on December 19, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

“this movie shows Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, as it ducks behind the giant planet. Astronomers combined a series of images taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to make the 18-second movie. The 540 … Continue reading →

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Well this is something we didn’t plan on

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

Today our roof is being resurfaced (another Ike remnant.)  Ok, it’s noisy, something we’ve combated by running a bunch of errands and not actually being here much.  But we didn’t plan on the TV not working.  Our satellite dish is … Continue reading →

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What lens?

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

Carl has been pining away at lenses over the last week due to the fortune of getting a rather nice Amazon coupon.  The unfortunate thing is he can’t figure out what size lens to get.  Not that I think that … Continue reading →

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The Ultimate in Productivity?

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I found it very strange to see this in my list of recommended books on Amazon’s home page.  Clicking through on the “Why is this recommended for you?” link pointed out that this book is written by David Allen.  No, … Continue reading →

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How did I miss this feature?

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I spent a bit of time importing some of my old OneNote notebooks into Evernote today.  There were some notes that worked well, but some didn’t work quite so well.  I imported everything into Local only notebooks to ensure that … Continue reading →

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Now WoW has better security than your bank

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

Apparently it’s old news, but World of Warcraft has the option of using a one time password token for their login.  US banks were required to implement two factor authentication, with mutual identification, but I’m not aware of any who … Continue reading →

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Live Mesh Updates

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

If you follow my Google Reader Shared Items, you probably saw the Live announcement that there would be Mesh updates today.  I awoke to the Mesh icon in the Dock on my MacBook bouncing away, wanting to update.  The update … Continue reading →

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Spooler SubSystem App has stopped working

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

Every time I boot my machine, I get the following: Of course “Check online for a solution (recommended) doesn’t seem to do anything.  When I check in Services the Print Spooler service is stopped. The workarounds I can find via … Continue reading →

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Huh?

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I was just installing Cygwin on my new Vista laptop, and at the end, I got this message: Of course the “What settings are applied?” link was less than helpful.  

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