I logged into one of my Synology NAS boxes and saw a flock of disk errors: And these, too: I decided to replace the disk, even though it was part of a RAID 6 volume. But then I noticed that the Synology OS was out of date. I upgraded to the supposed latest version, … [Read more...]

I noticed a problem with Goodsync backups to one of my Synology boxes:     In the past, when I've seen this, it's been because the Synology box has stopped updating its time settings, which it gets from a local windows domain controller. So I took a … [Read more...]

Am I the only person who thinks there are way too many Java updates?   Am I the only person who is tired of unchecking the gratuitous toolbar loading box that Oracle tries to con my into every time I update Java? Am I the only person who is scared not to update … [Read more...]

I was using Outlook on a laptop when it crashed.   Restarting it produced this:       That didn't look good. I started it in safe mode. No go. I went to another machine, and Outlook crashed there, too. Looks like a bad email … [Read more...]