To anticipate and prevent
At work we started purchasing some Lenovo Thinkpad X220s and of course I got the first one. I’ve used the X220 before, so this isn’t my first time with it. Though along with this purchase I got a couple of the popular accessories, those being the Ultrabase and the 6 Cell (19+) battery. Also, since…
This week I got a brand new Doxie Go scanner. If you’ve never heard of it, have no fear. It’s a brand new model and honestly, I hadn’t heard about any of the other “Doxie” products before either. The Go is a portable cordless (not wireless — there’s a difference) scanner that has a built…
I recently had an IT revelation. I’m not sure why it took me so long, but I suddenly realized that many (though not all) people treat their corporate IT group in the same way they treat a customer service rep on the phone. How so? Well, many people call customer service when they are upset…
At the office I’ve been working to move our operations infrastructure into Puppet. Since I’m fairly new to puppetizing, I’ve been spending a lot of time with puppet. During one of my recent trial runs, I got the following (cryptic) error message: Error 400 on SERVER: Puppet::Parser::AST::Resource failed with error ArgumentError: Invalid resource type What….
Recently, I was trying to install an Intel 320 SSD into my Lenovo X220 laptop. Since the X220 uses the a 7mm tall 2.5″ HD bay, this is annoying. Once I got the SSD drive trimmed down a few millimeters and installed, I had to re-install Windows 7 and this is where things went screwy.
I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, regardless of what you’re doing. I’m sure most of you are out with friends and family — which you hopefully enjoy! I’m plunking about at home, relaxing, and enjoying a few days off. My vote is for teriyaki chicken and cupcakes over turkey and stuffing… but…