Articles posted on December 23rd, 2012

Power outage fries DSL modem and brings back kernel panics

Sunday, December 23rd, 2012 • 11:30 am

Sometimes I really feel as if I am somehow cursed. The reality is that I am just too reliant on modern technology, of course, but so is almost everyone else. And the thought that most people have to go through situations like the one I went through yesterday morning is, strangely enough, not particularly comforting. […]

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Pages documents in the Cloud: 5 MB for a blank document with plain text?

Sunday, December 23rd, 2012 • 10:37 am

The one thing I hate the most about cloud-based computing is the sense that I have lost control, that the computer does things on my behalf with very little input or feedback, and that things can fairly easily go wrong. And so I tend to avoid it like the plague. That said, as a tech […]

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