Sorry NCR, we broke your brand new ATM.
DaleWhen I wrote about printers jamming though being incorrectly loaded, I was reminded of the time we broke a brand new NCR ATM. I was working in the ATM helpdesk…
Recycling an old mattress
I needed to get rid of two old double-bed sized mattresses. I’m currently sleeping on a king single futon bed (loving it) and the two double-bed mattresses were taking up…
Same place, 9 years later.
Top end of Collins Street Melbourne, 2005 and 2014
The internet has made bike maintenance cheaper.
I’ve owned/worked on several motorcycles where the part you need must be purchased in a bulk package. Kawasaki, and their tappet shims, were fairly infamous for this practice. “Yes sir,…
“The printer isn’t detecting the correct paper size”
On higher-end laser printers, the printer is smart enough to know what size paper you’ve just loaded into the tray. And the real smart printers won’t try to print from…
USB power issues with Citrix Receiver
So we deployed the latest Citrix Receiver (4.0 at the time). Then the issues rolled in. “USB Hub Power Exceeded” was one of them. The typical customer complaining was a…
Shrinking a SQL Transaction Log File
Every so often, I run out of drive space on my SQL Server. The culprit ends up being the Transaction Log File (LDF) expanding to consume all available space. My…
$30 dollars, 3 months.
The Sam Vimes "Boots" Theory of Economic Injustice runs thus:At the time of Men at Arms, Samuel Vimes earned thirty-eight dollars a month as a Captain of the Watch, plus…
Saturday link roundup
AVG Rescue CD AVG Rescue CD is a comprehensive toolkit that will repair system crashes and return systems to a state where they can operate at full capacity, thanks…