tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344816046179865624Fri, 06 Sep 2024 04:30:26 +0000CDsHeDidNotJustSayThatlulzmemories21stAmendmentAdventuresInBeerlandBOFHI-75ISOITIsHeInsaneMicrosoftWindowscleaningdrivingiceonthejobreadingshittyoutlookonlifesnowtheyareamongushttp://thatskinnyguy84.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (OP)Blogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344816046179865624.post-7077403364733839147Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:38:00 +00002011-10-06T19:38:04.593-04:00 So I was hungry and looking for something to eat. Instead of opting for something easy, what I saw lead me to something awesome. I looked in my fridge and I saw some emaciated red potatoes. They didn't look all that appetizing, but they weren't that old (3 weeks tops). My fridge has a tendency of making red tater skins look shriveled in no time flat. The insides were still good. http://thatskinnyguy84.blogspot.com/2011/10/bare-shelf-cooking-kickass-red-potatoes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (OP)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344816046179865624.post-722061191898279353Wed, 13 May 2009 14:53:00 +00002009-05-13T10:56:12.436-04:00Disclaimer:These instructions have been purposely and maliciously obfuscated as to barely resemble their original form. While the original form of this document was found to be incredibly useful and helpful to the majority of focus groups, it has been obfuscated for security reasons.Here at Microsoft, our definition of “Security” may or may not resemble your definitions of “insanity” or “unusablehttp://thatskinnyguy84.blogspot.com/2009/05/official-help-for-microsoft-product.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (OP)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344816046179865624.post-4391914804471414080Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:52:00 +00002009-01-10T21:05:59.639-05:00I recently got my hands on the Public Beta of the 32-bit version Windows 7. I installed it in a Virtual PC VM due to my lack of DVD media. I think I would have had a better experience had I installed the OS on a dedicated physical box but that just wasn't doable in my case. Here are my thoughts on the whole shebang.InstallationThe installation process was much like installing Windows Vista: very http://thatskinnyguy84.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-impressions-of-windows-7-ultimate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (OP)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344816046179865624.post-4989092181752268703Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:37:00 +00002008-10-06T14:02:31.764-04:00BOFHITonthejobreadingshittyoutlookonlife<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>http://thatskinnyguy84.blogspot.com/2008/10/impressions-of-bastard-operator-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (OP)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344816046179865624.post-8505204356261861928Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:59:00 +00002008-07-17T14:01:38.808-04:00I’ve been a late adopter of many things. I didn’t have a DVD player until 2003. I didn’t have a CD burner until 2005. I didn’t even have a personal music player (iPod) until last year. Having an iPod changed the way I thought about my music. Instead of compiling anywhere from 10-20 tracks on a CD, I had my entire music collection at my beacon call. There were also many perquisites that were http://thatskinnyguy84.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-ipod.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (OP)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344816046179865624.post-6700045437750397908Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:57:00 +00002008-03-14T10:48:35.351-04:00Recently, I bought a second domain name. I already owned kendallsofcanton.com and I wanted to also run my new domain (HackersAre.us) on the same web server. I fumbled –around for about 2 days on the internets, damning them at every step of the way for being totally useless, trying to get both of these sites hosted on the same server. I thought the problem was my Apache webserver. I tried many http://thatskinnyguy84.blogspot.com/2008/03/dns-hell.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (OP)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344816046179865624.post-8475857120170966792Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:46:00 +00002008-02-15T01:44:44.621-05:00It's been about a month since my last update. It's really been a month since anything interesting happened with me that involved technology.About a week ago, I installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 [snore] on my laptop thinking that it might do something for it. I mean, SP3 is out in the Release Candidate stage of production. What could go wrong? Right?After installing, it seemed to be a pretty http://thatskinnyguy84.blogspot.com/2008/02/adventures-in-world-of-linux.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (OP)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344816046179865624.post-6568721875804079112Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:09:00 +00002008-01-14T18:53:10.830-05:00I have built my first piece of computer hardware. It’s not something that took days and days of planning and engineering work either. This piece of hardware essentially functions as a mouse with a left-click button only. **Echos in my mind, “Damn it Jim! I’m a businessman! Not an engineer!”** I was trolling the comments on Slashdot yesterday for something interesting and found a link to Johnny http://thatskinnyguy84.blogspot.com/2008/01/wiimote-whiteboard.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (OP)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344816046179865624.post-6372227133411143759Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:08:00 +00002007-12-31T03:50:41.640-05:00Many in the I.T. industry have shied-away from Windows Vista due to the fact that it can run like a dog on systems with seemingly state-of-the-art hardware. I installed Vista on my IBM Thinkcentre A50 about two months ago. It ran Windows XP fine with its 1GB of RAM, 3.0GHz Pentium 4 CPU and NVIDIA GeForce graphics card. I just installed Vista out of curiosity. It ran slowly compared to XP. Not http://thatskinnyguy84.blogspot.com/2007/12/vista-performance-enchancements.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (OP)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344816046179865624.post-7623590620355663289Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:05:00 +00002007-12-24T01:13:04.695-05:00CDsHeDidNotJustSayThatIsHeInsanememoriesWindowsI have been on a sort of I.T. geek nostalgic binge over the past few days. I guess you could say that this is a continuation of my previous blog. Having found all of that old boot media in my spindle upon spindle of CDs, I acted on the temptation to install all of those archaic operating systems. In order to truly gauge where we are in technology, sometimes we have to look back to see how bad http://thatskinnyguy84.blogspot.com/2007/12/2007-os-odyssey.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (OP)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344816046179865624.post-5473266437262092797Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:37:00 +00002007-12-22T13:46:53.112-05:00CDscleaningISOlulzmemoriesMicrosoftI recently took a trip down memory lane. For most people, that involves watching home movies, calling old friends or looking at pictures in a dusty photo album. For me going down memory lane meant going through my hundreds of data CDs and seeing what was worth keeping and what was worth throwing in the bin.In my early years as an IT guy, my labeling skills were non-existent. I would just burn a http://thatskinnyguy84.blogspot.com/2007/12/my-memories-are-digital.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (OP)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344816046179865624.post-2986165246990712303Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:29:00 +00002007-12-15T14:55:57.519-05:00drivingI-75icesnowThere is a big snowstorm blowing-in from Alberta overnight tonight. When I think about a big storm, I’m reminded of February of this year. It was Valentine’s Day: an excellent day for a funeral. My last remaining grandparent was interred in a mausoleum just outside of Cincinnati. I was with my mom and we were about 200 miles from our house in Toledo. We had just spent a week with my aunt and http://thatskinnyguy84.blogspot.com/2007/12/ice-storm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (OP)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344816046179865624.post-2922849953272654929Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:13:00 +00002007-12-09T13:07:04.339-05:0021stAmendmentAdventuresInBeerlandThe 18th Amendment to the Constitution of these United States was an abomination imposed on the masses by a very vocal minority. The lobbying group for temperance who swayed the Congress to prohibit the sale and consumption of alcohol had good intentions. Health and crime were their main concerns. But what it gave rise to was organized crime and a higher mortality rate from the consumption of http://thatskinnyguy84.blogspot.com/2007/12/adventures-with-beer-making.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (OP)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344816046179865624.post-4718275094964515468Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:28:00 +00002007-12-06T16:42:15.912-05:00HeDidNotJustSayThatlulztheyareamongusI'm currently an out of work IT guy who is in school working toward my CCNA certification. This semester has taught me a lot about how things have changed in the short time since I was in school for my Bachelor's degree. I ripped on people quite a bit; but the people at the college I'm at take ripping on people to a whole other level. And I got sucked-in. I'm going to let Murderface explain this http://thatskinnyguy84.blogspot.com/2007/12/superhub-to-max.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (OP)0