Indoors

Stop the beeping! How to de-Beep UPS battery back ups

December 8, 2011

With the blustery winter weather comes the occasional power outage. Most of which are just a few seconds. I’m a well prepared techie, so I have 8 UPS Battery Back Ups in house to protect; my computer, another computer, database server, cordless phone, alarm clock, internet modem, router, wireless router, Tivo, etc. All very good, [...]

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How to fix a Corrupted Time Machine backup

November 15, 2010

If your XServe TimeMachine SparseBundle disk image becomes corrupted, here is how to fix it and save the day. Errors fixed are “operation not supported on socket” and “time machine sparsebundle error”. Also involved a network restore of a Mac from the remote sparse bundle disk image back up file. Happy ending.

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What to do with that old PC

September 19, 2010

I have a 6 year old laptop with Windows XP and 512mb ram. I would say it is running XP, but that would be a generous statement. It has XP installed (at factory default settings), but it is painfully slow. Not running anything. Maybe walking. When I do try to use this thing, it usually [...]

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How To Use A Tivo universal Remote to Control a Sony AVR Receiver STR-DE597

March 3, 2010

For those of you who have a Tivo, and also have a Sony AV Receiver model STR-DE597 this is for you. You may have noticed that none of the Tivo provided remote codes are able to control the volume on your Sony STR-DE597. Of course there is a trick. It is possible (and easy!)

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