This is a Great cause! Take a moment and go buy a T-Shirt to help support the rescuing of Dogs in our area! Here's a little info on Bones for Homes: Bones for Homes by Elijah is the dream of seven year old Elijah. He was devastated after learning that some animals in shelters must be euthanized when they do not find homes, and he was determined to do something about that. Elijah decided to help buy selling dog treats, specifically the … [Read more...]
Tired Teachers
As a husband of a Teacher, this is right on. This video is from a recent Knox County School board meeting... A teacher gives her opinion about the new evaluation process for teachers in Tennessee. … [Read more...]
Pre-Order your ZuneHD!
The other Day Gizmodo and others leaked information about the official release date and prices for the new Zune HD. If you missed those posts here's the "skinny". According to Microsoft the new Zune HD will officially be available starting September 15, 2009. Originally we thought the release date was set for September 5, then later we heard it had changed to late October or early November of this year. So, it's good to have an Official Announcement on the date. The new Zune HDs are … [Read more...]
New Start
This, I guess, can be tagged as my first "Official" entry... Getting ready to make some MAJOR changes to my main site: Owen Consulting and also to: Southern Brass Quintet Well... In preparing for the new changes at the main site I though I would go ahead and work a version of the new banner into this Blog design. I know no one is reading this but I'll ask anyway... what do you think? Think it will work? I know... most of you fictional readers are really asking what I have to blog … [Read more...]
Large Hadron Collider
CERN's Large Hadron Collider... Info via Wikipedia: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing particle beams, of either protons at an energy of 7 TeV/particle, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV/nucleus. The Large Hadron Collider was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the intention of testing various predictions of high-energy physics, including the … [Read more...]
Unistall Norton Network Antivirus Without a Password
Here's a quick "How-to"... Symantec AntiVirus Clients, especially Corporate Edition Clients, can be installed remotely and managed via a Symantec AntiVirus Server. When a Symantec AntiVirus Client is managed, it prompts for password when you attempt to uninstall the client via local computer Control Panel Add or Remove Program applet. If you don't know or have forgotten the password, then the client is not able to be uninstalled or removed. In that case, (or when the Symantec AntiVirus … [Read more...]
PC Boots to Blinking Cursor
This is more of a note for myself than anything... If I put it here, I will have an easier time finding what I did if/when I run across this problem again. Had to reboot a working PC. No updates installed, no new software of any kind installed. It just simply locked up and needed a reboot. On reboot, after finishing the POST test, it went to a black DOS style screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left-hand corner. This could mean several things: Corrupt Hard Drive Bad RAM Bad … [Read more...]