Lighter posting this weekend.  I’m cleaning up the back yard for Spring and other assorted house-cleaning chores I’ve been putting off for a while. Michael Pietroforte at his awesome 4sysops blog has one of the best sysadmin sites I just can’t wait to see a new post from. Michael’s skil...

The latest incarnation of the chaos music project is the chaos blues, where I hooked in a synthesizer to generate the sound. But, as Brian Eno says, this immediately presents a new problem; tweakability. Tweaking isn't feeling. It isn't music. It's the old problem of abundance that we know from the ...

Last major collection of links. Alvis has a TAKS test tomorrow so we are going retro and watching some Azumanga Daioh anime DVD’s to melt our brain cells before heading off to an early bedtime. I’ll try to section it up a bit. Lots of neat finds and worthy candidates for your attention.  Do...

So much material, so little time. Partition and Disk Management: Part I – Dancing with Diskpart Partition and Disk Management: Part II – Free and Useful Tools Partition and Disk Management: Part III – Pesky Dell Partitions  Partition and Disk Management: Part IV – Secure Wiping In many ...

It appears that many of us have had quite a bit of a weekend these past few days. Sitting here in Barcelona’s airport on my way home from a whistestop visit I can happily look back at some very nice dinners and conversations in the company of friends and colleagues as well as the odd stroll down L...

Previously posted in this series: Partition and Disk Management: Part I – Dancing with Diskpart Partition and Disk Management: Part II – Free and Useful Tools  Partition and Disk Management: Part III – Pesky Dell Partitions It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was making this post: Secu...

Previously posted here at Grand Stream Dreams: Partition and Disk Management: Part I – Dancing with Diskpart Partition and Disk Management: Part II – Free and Useful Tools In “Part I – Dancing with Diskpart� I was working with some Dell systems and in using GParted noted some strange thing...

In my previous post Partition and Disk Management: Part I – Dancing with Diskpart, I mentioned that I prefer to use Microsoft’s DiskPart Command-Line Options as my primary tool. I do this for a number of reasons, As I use WinPE 2.0 boot disks for primary system maintenance it is always at hand, ...

Sometimes I find myself on a technical issue and end up puzzling it out. The aftermath finds me overwhelmed with linkage.  Sometimes due to the interrelatedness of the issues, I struggle a bit to get it all organized in a logical manner. I’m having to “puntâ€� this time and do another multi...

Alvis and Lavie are watching the Oscars tonight and I’m along for the ride. I wasn’t able to come even close to getting out some of the posting I wanted.  Nothing like a short weekend, a bit of weed-pulling in the yard, and the regular mix of loving on the girls to wear a weekend out. Coupl...