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One of my favourite acronyms at work, because it reminds me of bao!

ASIA 2012, BAU, Uncategorized

Our reliance on technology

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So, I know I’m a Techno-junky, but We (JED) both realized how much we rely on technology. Forget having data all the time on your smart phone, but think of how much we rely on wireless internet. We had brought a laptop on the trip knowing we could use it for media, dumping pictures from the camera, etc. What we didn’t realize is when we got to HK there was a wired modem only. It limited to one of us using the laptop at once. His may sound “spoiled” but we are used to having our own device.We are also not known for our sharing either. So this became a very delicate situation without killing eachother. After one day of wifi deprivation, we caved and got a cheap wifi router.

We also luckily realized that our hotel in Tokyo didn’t have wifi, which we got kind of nervous about so we decided to bring the laptop with us which added more baggage weight. This made us realize our travel/packing woes were more than we expected.

Anyhow, wifiless-ism sucks

BAU, Ed

Coffee good, wordpress updates suck

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So after almost 3 hours of tweaking, troubleshooting and getting it back to where it should be, I’ve upgraded JED to 2.7.1. For a small point release, this upgrade was painful and horrifying. I would think for an application that has been around for awhile, they would have fixed most of the unix file permission issues when installing/upgrading/FTP’ing. However, I was getting error after error and with my limited linux knowledge it was quite frustrating. After almost giving up, I figured I would try re-installing a plugin manually [copy to plugin in directory, and activate] and voila! It works.

Sigh…

Note to self….never again

Anyways…so my knees are hurting. I think I’m getting old. I’m trying random leg stretching/strengthing exercises and I don’t know if it is making things worse, or if it’s actually helping. Leg lifts at work seem like a good idea, however I think my head bobs up and down after each rep. I hope my co-workers don’t think I’m nuts. I think I need new shoes….

BAU

Year of HD issues…sigh

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So why after years of harddrives not failing on me and not having data issues, this has been the bad year of harddrives. I had one failed drive [severe head crash] and tried some home-brew fixes [i.e. freeze the drive, let it spin up and go at it again]. After that failure, I tried to see what it would cost for data recovery. And than the kicker was that it would be about $2500 to restore “some” of the data. So I said to hell with that and had to download everything again.

Now the more recent problem was with a corrupt MFT and with that I had more troubles, thinking it was an enclosure issue [which I had to RMA 2 of them, now I might have to RMA another one…] and than finally figuring out it was actually the disk. I’ve managed to get it all back using some geeky tools [TestDisk, getDataBack NTFS]. Sigh….what a year…