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By bfwebster on Mar 15, 2012 in Main, Maintenance, Quality assurance | 0 Comments
One of my three desktop systems — a slim Gateway tower (SX2802-01) I’ve had for about two years — notified me last week that the hard disk (a Seagate Barracuda 7200, 750 GB) was failing. I googled the Windows system message, and what I found indicated the hard drive was indeed on its way to [...]
By bfwebster on Dec 19, 2011 in Main, Quality assurance, Surviving Complexity | 3 Comments
A few months ago, I wrote a post contrasting my experience with setting up and using an Apple TV (v2) device vs. setting up and using a Roku 2 streaming device. The Apple TV device came out very favorably, and while I did get the Roku 2 to finally update its software and start functioning, [...]
By bfwebster on Nov 23, 2011 in Complex systems, Main, Management, Product development, Quality assurance | 5 Comments
This is actually a problem I’ve been dealing with — or, more accurately, ignoring and working around — for a few months, at least, so I thought I’d put a post up here to see if anyone has come up with an actual fix. Back in July 2010, I bought an Acer Aspire easyStore Home [...]
By bfwebster on Feb 28, 2011 in Complex systems, Main, Quality assurance | 5 Comments
My wife called me up to her office with a question earlier today. She was syncing her iPad (64GB) with her MacPro and noticed that iTunes listed 9.9GB of space on her iPad being taken up by “Other”, with no indication of what that “Other” was. She said she had checked on-line, found some similar [...]
By bfwebster on Feb 23, 2011 in Complex systems, Maintenance, Quality assurance | 0 Comments
As I mentioned in my previous two posts (here and here), I ran into a bunch of networking problems during a recent extended business trip to a client site. One of the problems I mentioned was that I had brought along a Gateway desktop box so as to be able to use files and applications [...]