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I think it is finished, well sometime on Saturday it finished.  It would have been nice if there was some indication of progress during the upgrade. The black screen eventually went away and I could log in from the console.  For a while things stopped working, but that was because the upgrade activated the Windows Firewall which I had ...

If my server is offline for awhile this is why.  The reason I am upgrading is that the new stuff I am playing with i.e. ASP.NET MVC works much better on IIS7.  Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras Dirs : 678 678 0 0 0 0 Files : 218482 ...

I jumped a little ahead and didn't wait for any price drops.  Boy am I happy with my new machine it is very very fast.  There have been a few minor issues with Vista 64bit but overall it has been good.  I purchased it assembled from NCIX, just used there configuration on one of the higher end machines.   This way it cut ...

The Good Lots of Memory, my regular usage is just over 4GB, so no swapping with 8GB of real RAM.  Most things work with out any issues.  This is much improved over my experience trying 64 bit in beta. Very fast file transfers, between two my two main machines I got up to 50MB a second.  Drive to drive on the new machine I have ...

I just upgraded from v23 SP2 to the new v24 SP1 firmware from dd-wrt.   I am hoping my internet connection is more stable with the new release, since I moved I have been having intermittent issues where the connection drops for a few seconds throughout the day.  Dd-wrt doesn't seem to produce comprehensive release notes so here ...

Going over my receipts for the last year in preparation for doing my taxes I realized I haven't upgraded my computer in a couple of years.  My current machine is almost 4 years old, but since I first bought it I have upgraded the CPU and video card.  The CPU is a AMD 4400+ and can't really be upgraded again since AMD changed the ...

Do I really need:Turbo Assembler 3.0The X Window System Programming and Applications with XTX Window Applications ProgrammingUsing XPC Interruptsand many moreI don't think I have looked at any of them in over 10 years, they are almost books historical record now.  Oh well off to the trash.

  If you don't read Penny Arcade you may have missing this.  It is pretty cool.  I playing around with it a little.  If you don't want to move your senor bar as he suggests, just multiply things  by -1 to flip things around and use the remote instead.  The default Vista Bluetooth drivers work with the Wii ...

A nice impulse purchase at Costco 1TB of network storage, seemed like a good idea, I was running out of room on my other drives.  Too many MSDN downloads and other large files.  According to the box it came with some backup software and some remote access software. Sounded like a good deal but I didn’t read the fine print, the ...

I lost my boot drive on my server this evening about 5 hours later and pretty much everything is back up.  I really should look into backing up the OS too. Any problems let me know.  I am probably missing something.