http://www.mrchuckles.net So much tech, so little time... Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:26:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tim Russert died today at the age of 58. I'm incredibly shocked and saddened by this, more than I can ever recall for the death of a television personality or reporter alike. Tim Russert brought a level of trust and integrity to political journalism that is sorely absent in today's ... http://www.mrchuckles.net/2008/06/13/good-night-mr-russert/ Evernote looks to be the sort of capture software I've been looking for my whole life. Cross platform desktop and mobile clients, all synced to a web service. I want it badly, but it's invitation only right now. Grrr.... http://www.mrchuckles.net/2008/04/13/untitled/ Never having been a huge fan of Family Guy, I regarded the recently released Blue Harvest DVD with indifference. That is, until I wandered over to Adult Swim's website for my weekly Robot Chicken fix, and stumbled across many, many clips from the Star Wars: Episode IV parody. I must ... http://www.mrchuckles.net/2008/04/11/on-my-god-john-williams/ I'm posting this from my Dell Optiplex 755 running Mac OS X 10.5.1. Awwwww yeeeaaahhhh. http://www.mrchuckles.net/2008/04/08/putting-the-intel-in-intel-macs/ YouTube Rickrolls the World - I generally hate April Fool's Day because it makes it impossible to read tech news for 12 - 24 hours. However, this is the best prank I've ever seen... http://www.mrchuckles.net/2008/04/01/351/ Who does a better "James Brown"? Eddie Murphy [NSFW]? Pros: Spot-on vocal impression.Unintelligible lyrics."What the f**k is James talkin' 'bout Man? I don't know, we gettin' paid, keep singin'." Or Weird Al? Pros: The dancing, or parody thereof.The hair, outfit, and set.The "caped, hardest-working man" scene. You decide... http://www.mrchuckles.net/2008/03/31/fun-with-youtube/ Last week I mentioned a bizarre problem that occurred during an Exchange 2000 to 2003 migration for a client. Shortly after posting that little expository, I discovered another. The customer called to indicate one of his user's Inbox had been moved to his Deleted Items folder. I had never ... http://www.mrchuckles.net/2008/03/29/outlook-inbox-shows-under-deleted-items-folder/ After a nasty power outage a few weeks ago at Key, I realized that I had never installed APC's wonderful Network Shutdown tool on our VMware server. The Network Shutdown tool is a service that runs on just about any OS, and communicates with APC's network-enabled UPSes. When ... http://www.mrchuckles.net/2008/03/27/apcs-powerchute-network-shutdown-for-vmware/ Windows XP: Going, going ... gone? - The most thorough article I've seen yet regarding Windows XP's support future. If anything, the article reafirms my decision to stick with XP at Key for as long as possible. Hopefully, I can bypass Vista altogether... http://www.mrchuckles.net/2008/03/25/348/ I upgraded my Verizon 8703e to Blackberry OS 4.2 about two weeks ago, one out of the desire for "new stuff", and two because someone developed a Blackberry companion to KeePass that required 4.2 or newer. It's a pretty nice upgrade that brings some of the look and feel of ... http://www.mrchuckles.net/2008/03/25/blackberry-os-42-for-the-8703e/