Nobody Listens Anyway

Yes you read that right. I used to love this company. The concept is great - backup your data online for dirt cheap. Install the software and away you go. They backup everything and even encrypt your data for security. You get cheap backups and they get a little bit [...]

In a job interview a long time ago I was asked what I hate to do the most.  At the time my response was, “write USB device drivers.” I had to do that at Sorenson Vision and I hated it.  When you write device drivers you can really mess up a system. You screw up [...]

I am a software engineer. That means a lot of things. It means I can write code. It means I can talk about servers and argue about what programming languages are best (Check out PPH for the standard measure for programming languages.) It means I can build a cool website or [...]

A friend of mine was surprised that I don’t have a Flickr account. I am try to keep up with the cool kids and keep accounts on many of the so called web 2.0 services. So why don’t I have a Flickr account?
We use Picasa. How very uncool of us. The [...]

My xbox 360 died over the Christmas break. It had worked flawlessly for about 6 months. I turned it off before we went to visit my parents for a few days. When we came back I got the three flashing red lights of death. I did the reset and tried all [...]

I have a degree in electrical engineering so I know a lot about computers so there. Over the past five years I have been formulating my primary theory regarding the fundamental nature of computers.
I post it to the world now because my Mac crashed yesterday.
Here it is:
There are millions of very intelligent [...]

I am trying to set a new Macbook pro to boot Mac OSX and Windows with a third partition for data. It is a pain, but here is a good resource to help you get started. I managed to mess up the partitions. If you do that you will need to boot [...]