Yesterday the upgrade from Windows 8 to 8.1 became available. I bit, and upgraded my Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch. I first looked in Windows Update applet in the Control Panel. It wasn't there. Then I tried the Store. Yep. The download took more than 10 hours. It started out at the … [Read more...]
Washington Post YouTube traffic
This morning I was looking at the SonicWall real-time monitor, and I noticed 1 Mb/s of YouTube traffic. I started closing tabs on my browser, and the traffic ceased when I closed the Washington Post tab. I opened a new tab to the Post home page, and the traffic started again. … [Read more...]
Netsys and NEXT
I have been using a Netsys NV-600L/NV600R pair to get my backup ISP feed from an outbuilding to the server room for several years. I’ve got a 25-pair Category 3 (ordinary telephone unshielded twisted pair) cable between the two locations, which are about 100 feet apart. The boxes … [Read more...]
More Adobe CC annoyances
I had an image to which I'd added a layer with some graphics. The person for whom I was doing the editing wanted a version with the graphics removed. I had five minutes to do the work. I found the image in Lightroom, and told Lr to open the original file in Photoshop. Then I … [Read more...]
StatPress goes off the deep end
I wish that this were true... The historical data makes sense, but the target is from an alternate universe in which my fifteen minutes of fame takes place. … [Read more...]
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