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

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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … Read more

Xbox 360 Junkie?

Are you an Xbox live Junkie??? Love playing your games on-line? Well, if you do then you will like this. I just read a tweet from @digitarius over at Twitter about this deal he found on Amazon. It appears that they have Xbox Live Gold memberships on sale.. Thirteen months for only $29.97! So, hurry now while they last !