ROBERT OWEN — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap

Month: March 2007

Screen Capture… The Vista Way…

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Way back when… I blogged about easy screen capturing in windows… Well now there is Microsoft Vista and the methods I listed in the blog no longer work. But luckily… It's still easy… Super Easy I say! With the introduction of Microsoft Vista there is a nifty new utility called the “Snipping Tool”. [More]

Friday Funny – Teller Troubles

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I've done it!!!! A Friday Funny on Friday again!! Woo Hoo!! Enjoy! MALE VS. FEMALE AT THE ATM MACHINE A new sign in the Bank Lobby reads: “Please note that this Bank is installing new Drive-through ATM machines enabling customers to withdraw cash without leaving their vehicles. Customers using this new facility are requested to use the procedures outlined below … Read more

New to MySQL

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Well.. This is just a test entry. I have converted my DB over to MySQl and and working out the bugs from the conversion. Most likely this will get deleted. TEST

Internet Speed Tests

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Just how fast IS you connection? I know… your ISP says that you are getting 3meg down x 768 up but, are you? If your Internet connection seems slow, you should do some checking before complaining to your ISP. There are many sites available with Internet speed tests. Internet speed tests let you know how your connection is actually doing … Read more

Jazz Anyone??

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If you like Jazz, then you need to check out the latest CD from the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra. This CD titled, BLUES MAN FROM MEMPHIS, contains “more from the Musical Mind of Donald Brown” and features John Clayton, Stefon Harris & Gregory Tardy. CD tracks: Nancy and the Children's Playground Blues for Brother Jerome Theme for Malcolm Daddy's Girl Cynthia … Read more

CA Arcserve version 9.0 and IE 7

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I ran across an interesting error on a client's server this past week. Their nightly backup had begun crashing without any reported cause. The results of the last back-up simply said crashed.

The logs did not show any clear reason why this would be happening. Other than they had several instances of “Bad media” reported in some of their last actual back-up attempts.

Side note: Pay more attention to your back-ups people!! if you start seeing “Crashed” errors. Don't wait a month before asking someone for help!

We put new tapes in the drive and attempted the back-up job again. It would run the first section of the job until 5-10% then it would just stop. No errors.. Just stop..

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