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Today, I was trying to wipe a hard drive on my gaming machine using DBAN 2.2.6 and kept seeing two "unrecognized devices" in the list of available drives. When trying to run the DBAN wipe, it would crash, complaining about /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
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On February 16, I sat down at my Windows 7 based Media Center HTPC to watch some Netflix streaming shows, and was instead greeted with an Internet Explorer window stating "Navigation was cancelled". Here's how I fixed it.
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It seems that nearly anything with the word "iPad" on it commands a price premium, including carrying cases. Well, I found an alternative case that is nearly perfect for the iPad and it costs less than $15!
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If you've got a QNAP NAS and some file in your music library is causing the QNAP's iTunes server to die, here's how you can track-down the problem and fix it.
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Check-out this awesome LED persistence of vision project some guy made from leftover junk in his parts box. The video (inside the post) is worth a million words.
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Is anyone surprised that "pecan pie" has pecans in it? Are people with allergies that brain-dead that they'd buy "pecan pie" thinking it's safe to eat simply because it doesn't list pecans on the ingredients list?
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I finally decided to bite the bullet and bought a real NAS for use at home. I decided on the QNAP TS-219P for a number of reasons I'll discuss in the post. Also, I have plenty of screenshots showing the QNAP UI and a couple simple benchmarks comparing the performance to a USB disk attached to an Airport Extreme.

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It's been a while since I posted, but today, I had to figure-out how to make the OS X version of Safari stop opening PDF files inside the browser since that's one of my pet peeves.
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This awesome site has the complete audio of the original moon landing along with lots of interactive goodies.
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• Weed eaters are one of my top ten annoying sounds possible on the planet... #
• Anyone else get tired of people who follow you, (for obvious marketing purposes) but obviously don't read anything you type? Gonna unfollow! #
• Wow Florida style rain here in Colorado! http://twitpic.com/8boqf #
• Imaging my new used Series 2 TiVo drive to a new 320GB. Finally gonna retire the trusty Series 1 after 7 years. http://twitpic.com/8ezte #
• Argh... I've got about 10 books here on Amazon that I'm interested in and would buy for the Kindle if the price of the reader was reasonable #
• Crazy thought but will Michael Jackson be another Elvis where people think it's a hoax and see him at gas stations and other places? #
• New TiVo drive is installed and I'm bringing it up now. Felt odd to remove my Series 1 after 8 years. http://twitpic.com/8klxm #
• Awesome weather in CO today and no signs of the daily storms... yet. http://twitpic.com/8levo #
• RT @ freeiphoneapps RIP Billy Mays. He was the only human that was allowed to speak entirely in CAPS LOCK. #
• hahaha Sneak 80oz of beer into concerts and sporting events in the Beer Belly http://bit.ly/seEoA #
• RT @OrlandoUpdates: PHOTO UPDATE: Gaylord Palms (this place is incredible; you have to see it if you haven't already!) http://ow.ly/g0QY #
• MAKE Controller & I/O board via @YoTwits http://bit.ly/kjPcc #
• I hate waiting to get a haircut. 25 minutes down the drain. #
• Beer holster is perfect for 4th of July, BBQ, or whatever. Funny idea. http://bit.ly/YwuCh #
• Just put 6GB in my Penryn Macbook Pro. Did hardcore geek-fu and hacked the SPD EEPROM on one of the sticks cuz Apple doesn't handle diff. #
• Awwww yeah. Plenty of room for running a VM, FireFox, and other goodies now on the MBP! http://twitpic.com/93nx5 #
• Lol for being "illegal" I can count at least 10 diff spots shooting aerial fireworks just looking out bedroom window. #

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