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Switch to e-books was an unmitigated disaster, says school principal – Independent.ie.

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This just in, poorly informed people making tech decisions without guidance nor the correct kind of knowledge will invariably make bad decisions and then blame the tech instead of the poor management.

Can we really trust a person who refers to hard disk drive storage as memory to make the right call?

An unmitigated disaster, perhaps, but not because of the tech.  A poorly planned out roll out with poor tech management for sure.  But the fault does not lie squarely on the shoulders of the technology.

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Cool, so I went ahead and enabled ‘voting’ on posts per a request, only to come back this morning and see someone went through and voted negatively on every post.  No commentary or anything, just a thumbs down and away we go.

Cool, well we can play that game if you like.

I have reset all vote counts, voting now requires you to be logged in and registered (which I need to approve), and now you can’t even vote it down.

So, very mature whoever you are (p.s. I have a hunch who it is) but if you think that’s going to make my day sad, you’re very mistaken.

-M, out.

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[UPDATE 2 – Key File inside] – TL;DR – Accounting firm gets Cryptolocker Virus. Tech wipes the server to clean it because he has Carbonite backups. He can’t remember password to the privately managed encryption key file and can’t download the firms backup. Everything lost. : talesfromtechsupport.

Lessons learned.

  1. Never trust a single point of failure.
  2. Backups are only as good as the person maintaining them (see #1).
  3. Never store critical information in only one spot (especially if it’s just your head).

Good grief.  This is the shittiest of the shitty situations.

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Today is a good day, and it’s only 10:05am.  Here’s a great tip for those of you who work in I.T. shops and have Dell 5110cn Printers.

You know those pesky transfer rollers?  Yeah, the things that need to be replaced 3x as often as the Imaging Drum they’re often sold with?  Yeah, it turns out that you can re-use them successfully.  I know, I did it myself just today.

Wanna see how?

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Hey everyone!  It’s my favorite time of year, Fall!  And with Fall here comes Fall foods.  One of my recent favorites is squash.  And lately we’ve heard a lot about Spaghetti Squash, so I took the time and wrote up a very simple recipe for Spaghetti Squash for you.  This is a recipe to just get the Squash done.  How you dress it is entirely up to you.  My advice is to keep it simple: the Spaghetti Squash is DELICIOUS on it’s own.

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Hey all,

I did an update to WordPress a few days ago and didn’t pay it any specific mind, but it turns out it fubar’d something internally and made the CSS of the Minimal Theme not work too well.

After about 15 minutes of tinkering, I found the culprit.  To fix it (until they fix it officially, as I’m sure they’ll be working on it soon):

  1. Click Appearance
  2. Click Editor
  3. Click Stylesheet (style.css)
  4. Find the line:

    #content
    {

    float: left;
    padding: 27px;
    line-height: 1.6em;
    text-align: left;

    }

    and change it to:

    #content
    {

    float: left;
    padding: 27px;
    width: 531px;    /* To fix display bug with text running into the sidebar */
    line-height: 1.6em;
    text-align: left;

    }

  5. Click update file.
  6. Done!

Pictures of before and after:

Before:

Bug with Minimal Theme, See the Top Right Corner and Right Edges.

After:

All Fixed!