Category Archives: System Administration

Really for the birds

Posted on 2009-09-11 by M. Eric Carr

Carrier pigeon upstages South African ISP. Film at 11. Continue reading →

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Random Thought Of The Day

Posted on 2009-08-05 by M. Eric Carr

I wanna know: Why does Windows’ Task Manager list the size of the “System Idle Process” as nonzero? Also, why is it different, on different computers? My desktop apparently takes 16K of memory to do absolutely nothing, while my laptop … Continue reading →

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XP SP3 breaks Remote Desktop: Here’s the fix…

Posted on 2009-01-21 by M. Eric Carr

Microsoft keeps finding new and improved ways in which to be annoying. Windows XP Service Pack 3, it turns out, breaks Remote Desktop access for some strange reason. Once you know the solution, it’s not a terribly difficult fix (see … Continue reading →

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Clippy Doesn’t Get It

Posted on 2009-01-20 by M. Eric Carr

There are some things that computers do quite well. Correcting English grammar, apparently, isn’t included in the list.(“Subjunctive? We don’t need no steenkin subjunctive!”)

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