New Reality Show Needs Funding

I'm on vacation typing this my phone so excuse the brevity.

I do enjoy my job, but seriously folks, how can you NOT want to sit and do this all day, every day.

If some crazy ass T.V. Exec wants to take me up on this and put me up in a beach house, make me indepently wealthy and see how long I can do absolutely nothing every day, I am up for the challenge. Viewers of "Beach Bum" will likely findy my daily adventures of beach combing, photoraphing tide pools and watching the fog rolling in RIVETING.

Viewers WON'T see me doing Tai Chi in the mist. Look very carefully. The dot dead center where beach meets water is the Oregon Mist Tai Chi monster. Expending that much energy scares the living daylights out of me.

I couldn't run though, I was to busy being lazy.

Bedtime?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdhzhY9sfo

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Acronis and Drobo Technical Issue Updates

I have not blogged much on this site since my wife started our married blog.  I had two tech issues that I had issues with recently and I though I would share the solutions.

Acronis:

I finally solved this issue.  It was a combination of 2 things.  Windows XP SP2 and Vista have this wonderful new security feature that “blocks” files on your system that come from another computer.  Now this has not caused me any other specific issues, in fact, I was not aware of it until today.  Some files if you show properties, there is a security  area that shows the file has been blocked.

Now as I said, this has not caused me any issues until now.  Acronis has the option during backup to store files unencrypted, and I had selected that option.  It appears that any file that is security “blocked” will cause Acronis to choke on it and be unable to read the file for backup.  Simple fix for this is to NOT enable storing of backup data as unencrypted. Unblocking files did NOT appear to fix this, but each file that it was chocking on shows this dialog.

 

DROBO

So recently during all the backup troubles, my Droboshare would stop allowing me access to my Drobo.  I could ping the IP but not access my data. Reboot, and all would be well again.  Then it would stop working again over time.  The short of it, I discovered there was a specific folder that when accessed would cause this lockup.  Interesting enough it was my backup folder location so every time a backup would start, the Drobo would freeze.  Not helpful.

As soon as I discovered it was a specific folder I disconnected the Drobo from the Droboshare, connected it to my laptop and ran a disk check.  Sure enough errors were found and repaired.  I connected it to the Droboshare and I was back in business with no issues.

One small detail is that I had formatted it to NTFS, not the recommended EXTFS that Drobo recommends for a Droboshare setup.  If I had, I would not have been able to easily repair my disk issues.

I contacted Drobo support and was informed that the Droboshare has ZERO automation for checking for and fixing disk issues.  Something every Drobo owner should keep in mind.  Just be sure to format the Drobo to a file system that you can easily connect to any of your other systems for disk repair.

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Happy Holidays!

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What I Love About Sorting In Microsoft Office

I have emails.  Some I have read, some I have not.  I want all the Unread emails at the top.

Let's put the Read field in the header.

Right click on Subject or other header and select Field Chooser

 

Drag and drop the Read field to your header.  You should now have this nice little Envelope field.

 

Now, Hover over the Icon and Microsoft will give you this great tooltip "Sort by: Read" SWEET…

 

Now CLICK IT.  Yes, sort your emails by Read vs. Unread.

 

 

PWND by Microsoft!

Forgive me, for I have Sp@mmed.

I cannot take it anymore.

This is not something I read, nor was it forwarded to me.  My newly registered Democratic "elitist" mind came up with it all by myself, so excuse any grammatical or errors of passion.

If you like it, forward it to all your friends.  If you don't, just remember Republican voting day is on November 5th (I'M KIDDING)

If you want to flame me, do it in the comments.

http://www.marriedgeeks.com/2008/10/keating-five-for-president-08.html

Greg

McCains Gonna Pay For His Plan How??

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