Recently, I found that I had a TON of photos on my iPhone. These are the photos taken with the iPhone itself… not synced up via Aperture or iPhoto. Managing those is easy enough. These are the really random photos taken over the past year and a half (or whatever). Mine is a 32 Gb model, so I have lots of space, but there’s really no need to have all those pictures on my phone. Deleting them one at a time is easy to do, but...
Everyone knows they should be backing up their data, right? Just like flossing and rotating your tires though, sometimes it’s easy to let it slip for a while. But for those of you that *do* backup your data, are you doing it right? First of all, there’s really no excuse for not backing up your data now-a-days. External hard drives are really affordable and dead simple. Backup software is built into most modern operating...
I got a phone call yesterday. It was from a fairly highly placed individual in another location. He is a CIO of an entire division. He called me and paid me about the highest compliment I think I’ve ever gotten. One of the projects I’ve worked on here at the University of Wisconsin has been the Electronic Application for Admissions (EApp). You can check it out and apply at https://apply.wisconsin.edu The EApp is a...
Here I am… happily working along when suddenly, the screen goes gray. My headphones cut out and I’m left in awful silence. On the gray screen, I get the following message… “You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button until it turns off, then press the Power button again.” Macs are awesome, but don’t ever let anyone tell you they never crash. At least it had the decency to crash with a...
WordPress (the blogging system this site runs on) has been upgraded to version 3.1. There’s a lot of hoopla about it. There are claims that the dashboard and writing interface have received a lot of updates. Uh… I’m not seeing too much right now. Naturally, I’ll have to do more investigation. UPDATE: Well… here’s something new. When logged in but viewing the “user” version, I get a...
We run lots of batch processes overnight. We do this to send emails, to generate reports, etc… We do all this via Windows Scheduled Tasks. It works great. Recently, I needed to add a new scheduled task. I went through the process of adding the task but when I tried to run it, it failed. The error message I got was “Could not start task“ What? I’m an admin on the box aren’t I? What’s going on here? ...