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Western Digital My Book = Corrupt?

Posted at February 4, 2008 10:28 am | In Research | By: Ben Woodruff

Last Saturday I wanted to take my My Book external hard drive (400GB) to work, to share some files with a co-worker. It was plugged into my AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn non-gig version) via the USB port. I normally have that and a printer plugged into a hub which then plugs into the base station.

So Saturday I did what I thought I was supposed to do in order to unplug the drive: hit eject on my machine, and then just to make sure, logged in using the AirPort Utility and clicked “Disconnect All Users” on the drive. So I unplugged it and drove it to Avon.

When I get there my co-worker plugs it in: it doesn’t mount. I didn’t think anything of it. He is running OS X on non-Mac hardware (hackintosh). I figured it was just his machine. So I plug it into my MacBook Pro: still doesn’t mount.
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Tags: Annoyances, Apple/Mac, Backup, Data Recovery, Hard Drive, Research, Technology

Dear Time Warner

Posted at January 12, 2008 5:15 pm | In Networking | By: Ben Woodruff

Hello,

You dial access dialer does not work with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). I’ve confirmed this with tech support. It hasn’t been updated in a very long time anyway, so it’s probably time for an update.
Or, better yet, release the PPP script so that we don’t have to use your horribly outdated proprietary dialer and you don’t have to support it. That way it’ll work with OS X, Windows, and Linux.

Note: This may need to be forwarded to someone in the company who actually understand what PPP is.

Ben

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Tags: Annoyances, Apple/Mac, Outdated, Research, RoadRunner, Software, Time Warner

Adobe CS3: ExtendScript Toolkit 2 Error on OS X

Posted at January 7, 2008 8:24 pm | In Software | By: Ben Woodruff

I was reinstalling part of Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 (Web Premium) last night, and after it had reinstalled the shared components it asked me to “Please Insert Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2 to Continue Installation.” There isn’t any CD labeled anything like that with CS3.

I found the fix here: elaine montoya » Blog Archive » Workaround: Please Insert Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2 to Continue Installation.
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Tags: Annoyances, Apple/Mac, Media, Research, Software

I hate Vi

Posted at September 23, 2007 11:48 am | In Technology | By: Ben Woodruff

Seriously, who actually likes to use Vi? Having to “switch modes” just to save a file is stupid. The whole system is annoying. nano/pico are much much better alternatives imo. I know Vi is supposedly more “powerful,” but really… I don’t care. All I want to do is add a line to my crontab. I don’t need it to cook me breakfast too. Plus trying to get it to cook me breakfast, if I did want it to, would probably take a lot longer than just doing so myself, as I’d probably have to switch between command and insert mode 50 times.

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Tags: Annoyances, Outdated, Technology

Re: Bugzilla

Posted at August 29, 2007 10:03 pm | In Research | By: Ben Woodruff

Update: Had a meeting today with the powers that be and it was decided that I could use our “VM Box” (an XP machine that is running VMWare Server) to setup a Linux virtual machine and install Bugzilla. They seemed unconvinced that it would work for us.
Well… they’re right.

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Tags: Annoyances, Research, Technology, Work

My email to Apple

Posted at July 8, 2007 10:52 pm | In Technology | By: Ben Woodruff

Subject: “The current implementation of the Finder makes me cry myself to sleep at night”

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Tags: Annoyances, Apple/Mac

Slower Internets?

Posted at June 7, 2007 11:07 pm | In Personal | By: Ben Woodruff

Rochester Road Runner (Time Warner Cable) seems to be slower the last week or so. Speed tests have proven it…

Maybe I should give them a call….

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Tags: Annoyances, RoadRunner, Time Warner

Vi or Emacs?

Posted at June 4, 2007 9:48 pm | In Technology | By: Ben Woodruff

Neither. TextMate.

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Tags: Annoyances, Outdated, Technology

No Halo 3 Beta?

Posted at May 16, 2007 10:46 pm | In Gaming | By: Ben Woodruff

So I went over to Jordan’s today with Graham to play the Halo 3 beta and… guess what… it was delayed. It was supposed to be up at 7:00AM EST. It’s not up as of my writing this post (approx 10:45PM EST). Good Game Microsoft.

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Tags: Annoyances, Gaming, Halo, Halo 3, Microsoft, Xbox Live

VoIP

Posted at March 29, 2007 11:09 pm | In Research | By: Ben Woodruff

I don’t see the point.
Does everything have to be digital?

Anyway, I’ve been trying to setup a softphone on my laptop to login to our allworx VoIP system at work. I tried iSoftPhone, with no luck. I finally found X-lite (free), which has both a Windows and Mac version. That works perfectly. Well, almost. It’s good for a softphone anyway. I may have to buy it’s big brother, eyeBeam though, as X-lite doesn’t allow you to transfer calls…. which is a problem.
I just wish they had an educational discount or something.

I’m also looking into getting a bluetooth headset to use with my MacBook. I have a Logitech USB headset which I love to death, but it is a pain to carry around (even though it’s their “notebook” version). I’m looking at the Plantronics Explorer 320, mainly because it’s cheap and still got pretty good reviews.

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Tags: Annoyances, Apple/Mac, Technology, Work

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