WOOOOOooooOOOOoooooOOOOOooooo!
I start Feb 8th...
Monday, January 25, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
God owes me some money...
I think that people should file class action lawsuits against anyone claiming to be the one true faith when ever there is a natural disaster.
You represent God? Well, he fucked up my house, so you owe me some money!
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Windows Media Center Error in Windows 7
So, I got an error message yesterday from Windows Media center:
"a necessary component of windows media center did not start properly"
The error would occur if I tried to add folders to media center... and all my media folders were failing to show up in WMC.
I couldn't find anything on google to help me troubleshoot it, but I had just installed Nero 9 the day before.
When I would restart my computer, it would also take a long time to log in and would frequently load a temporary profile.
The problem was resolved by disabling Nero's background service called "Nero BackItUp Scheduler 4.0" which I have no need for anyway.
Hope this is helpful to someone.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Picasa 3.5
Face Recognition Tagging... Need I say more?
Seriously, this is the best thing to happen to photo organization ever!
Monday, November 23, 2009
Grief doesn't begin to describe...
In the early hours today, we lost a great man. He was loved. He will be missed.
Thank you for everything, Robert Middleton. You will never be forgotten.
Thank you for everything, Robert Middleton. You will never be forgotten.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Carbonite
I feel like it's time that I give Carbonite online data backup a quick review.
A few months ago, I decided that I want to have a secondary data backup measure. Right now, I have my computer setup with a Mirror RAID. This allows me to keep my data on two drives simultaneously. This is great for if one of the drives fails, but does nothing to protect me against fire, flood, theft, etc..
I had heard about Carbonite and thought I would give them a shot. The price was right and the service boasted unlimited storage, so I figured, why not?
I feel like I made the right choice. So far, my favorite thing is that Carbonite remembers your files locations... and this is important for restoring lost data, but even more important for resuming partial backups...
Allow me to explain:
Because I frequently upgrade/reinstall my operating system, I keep all my user profile data on a secondary hard drive. This allows me to restore the main hard drive without disrupting my important data. I have hundreds of Gigabytes of data and I wanted to backup a good chunk of it. This backup is taking about 2 months to complete. About half way through the backup, I decided to upgrade to Windows 7 64bit, which required me to wipe out all the data on my main drive. I was worried that when I reinstalled Carbonite, it would lose its place on my secondary drive backup. It did not.
Carbonite integrates easily into your GUI and works along side windows in a seamless manor. The backup is slow at first, but once it's complete, it only updates changes, so it is rather quick depending on the size of your modified files.
The only complaint I have about Carbonite is that it does not backup all files types by default and for large files (over a few gigabytes) you have to select them manually. For a video editor like myself, this is a bit annoying, but I can see where for the average user, this would never be an issue.
A few months ago, I decided that I want to have a secondary data backup measure. Right now, I have my computer setup with a Mirror RAID. This allows me to keep my data on two drives simultaneously. This is great for if one of the drives fails, but does nothing to protect me against fire, flood, theft, etc..
I had heard about Carbonite and thought I would give them a shot. The price was right and the service boasted unlimited storage, so I figured, why not?
I feel like I made the right choice. So far, my favorite thing is that Carbonite remembers your files locations... and this is important for restoring lost data, but even more important for resuming partial backups...
Allow me to explain:
Because I frequently upgrade/reinstall my operating system, I keep all my user profile data on a secondary hard drive. This allows me to restore the main hard drive without disrupting my important data. I have hundreds of Gigabytes of data and I wanted to backup a good chunk of it. This backup is taking about 2 months to complete. About half way through the backup, I decided to upgrade to Windows 7 64bit, which required me to wipe out all the data on my main drive. I was worried that when I reinstalled Carbonite, it would lose its place on my secondary drive backup. It did not.
Carbonite integrates easily into your GUI and works along side windows in a seamless manor. The backup is slow at first, but once it's complete, it only updates changes, so it is rather quick depending on the size of your modified files.
The only complaint I have about Carbonite is that it does not backup all files types by default and for large files (over a few gigabytes) you have to select them manually. For a video editor like myself, this is a bit annoying, but I can see where for the average user, this would never be an issue.
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