November 21st, 2009
I found that my iMac was really loud after I replaced the hard drive with a 1TB Western Digital Black drive (go figure).
I finally found a solution for adjusting the acoustic properties of the drive -
- Boot your mac with Ubuntu 9.10 (or whatever LiveCD you like)
- Open Terminal
- run: sudo hdparm -M 128 /dev/sda (replace /dev/sda as needed)
Your computer will be quieter, and only slightly slower from now on!
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October 29th, 2009
I was encountering a problem trying to publish Windows Updates to our new Windows 7 workstations. The awesome error 0×8007000d is so verbose and helpful that it really helps masquerade the true problem — you need to update to WSUS 3.0 SP2.
If anyone out there finds this helpful, let me know!
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September 3rd, 2009
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May 15th, 2009
DSC_0079, originally uploaded by petwalrus2.
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May 4th, 2009
DSC_0080, originally uploaded by petwalrus2.
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May 4th, 2009
DSC_0030, originally uploaded by petwalrus2.
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May 4th, 2009
DSC_0040, originally uploaded by petwalrus2.
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May 4th, 2009
DSC_0083, originally uploaded by petwalrus2.
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May 4th, 2009
DSC_0095, originally uploaded by petwalrus2.
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May 4th, 2009
DSC_0098, originally uploaded by petwalrus2.
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