For several years I had a HP laserjet printer. It was functional. It printed stuff when I needed it, but, unfortunately, whatever drivers it needed did not "play nice" with my Mac and eventually I had to retire it. I mentioned my printer dilemma to a friend a couple of months ago and he suggested a couple of models of wifi enabled printers. I like wifi and bluetooth devices, … [Read more...] about Wifi Printing Brings A Bit Of Sanity
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I Might Have Too Much Music!
I listen to music on my desktop machines pretty much all the time. While I have bought a few tracks via iTunes I'm still buying physical CDs. Recently I've been using Spotify quite a bit, but I still like being able to listen to the music that I have in my own collection. My desktop machine in the office has a pretty large hard drive, so this isn't an issue. Unfortunately my … [Read more...] about I Might Have Too Much Music!
Site Downtime Tomorrow
Image via WikipediaThis site, and several others, will be offline for up to an hour tomorrow. The server already got a RAM upgrade recently, but it's now getting a CPU upgrade.While the performance of this site and most of the others on here hasn't been an issue there are one or two sites that might perform a bit better with slightly beefier hardware. In any case I thought it … [Read more...] about Site Downtime Tomorrow
Dvds.ie Offline Temporarily
DVDs.ie has been taken offline, as the server simply did not have enough RAM. I've ordered extra RAM and will put the site back online once I have the RAM installed.For the past 48 hours the site has been slow, while the server itself has been nearly always inaccessible via ssh, due to MySQL eating cpu and ram. It seems like the GoogleBot started crawling and "upset" the … [Read more...] about Dvds.ie Offline Temporarily
Is Apple’s Global Warranty A Myth?
One of the annoying things about Apple is that they insist on doing silly currency conversions. As a result it's a lot more attractive to buy Apple hardware AND software in the US and import it into Europe.. But what about customer service and after sales support?Will Apple's Irish team help you if your Los Angeles bought hardware is causing you problems?It's an interesting … [Read more...] about Is Apple’s Global Warranty A Myth?