Monthly Archive: March 2010

Mar 28

A Quick Look at Threadsy

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I’ve been playing around with a new (to me) “integrated communications” client. It centralizes your twitter, Facebook and chat all from one web application. As they say, threadsy groups all of your inbound email and social network messages into a single inbox and all of your Facebook news feed and tweets into a single stream. …

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Mar 22

A Brief Tussle with Personal Security

I was over at my folks’ house yesterday when my Dad walked out of their office asking, “Who rebooted the computer?” Well, nobody had, but after he logged in we noticed they had a new unwelcome guest installed: Personal Security. (cue the “Boo Hiss” sounds) This is another one of those fake antivirus apps like …

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Mar 18

A Quick Look at Log Parser

This morning I was alerted to the fact that one of our clients was having problems with our application last night. Unfortunately, none of their end users had captured any of the error messages. I checked the SQL and Windows Event logs but found nothing helpful. Then I had a look in into the IIS …

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Mar 17

Kernel Panic! Major Pain. Easy Fix

After 3 months of steady use, customization and tweaking I (some would say finally) managed to break my Ubuntu Linux install last night. I was rather sad since I didn’t actually do anything this time. I logged on last night and noticed there were some updates to download and apply. Grabbed said updates and was …

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