Monthly Archives: December 2008

Free Enterprise?

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Jim

Long ago, I was a staunch supporter of laissez faire capitalism, believing that private enterprise was much more efficient and effective at self regulation than any kind of government intervention.  But my support of laissez faire was based on two … Continue reading →

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Resetting a Nikon Coolpix 4600

Posted on December 21, 2008 by Jim

My Nikon Coolpix 4600 digital camera stopped working the other day.  It just wouldn’t turn on.  When I hit the power button, the LED on the top would start blinking.  For a while.  The camera must have been doing something, … Continue reading →

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Adventures in mass storage

Posted on December 20, 2008 by Jim

We’ve been using a number of different computers as file servers here at the office, but we’re to the point now that we really need some kind of centralized data storage.  It’s one thing to have a single machine storing … Continue reading →

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Memory Upgrades

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Jim

It’s been an interesting few weeks here.  We’ve been collecting data much faster than we anticipated, and we’ve had to upgrade hardware.  One thing we’ve had to do is bring several of our servers from 16 gigabytes of RAM to … Continue reading →

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Burning CDs on Windows Server 2008

Posted on December 10, 2008 by Jim

Updated 2008/12/13, see below A while back I mentioned that I was unable to burn a CD on my Windows Server 2008 box.  At that point I didn’t have time to figure out what was going on.  Today I needed … Continue reading →

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Charlie

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Jim

We noticed Charlie having some trouble walking about two weeks ago, and the Saturday after Thanksgiving it got bad enough that we had to take him to the vet.  His back legs were working, but not well, and he was … Continue reading →

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More bailout madness

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Jim

In a very thinly reported move last week, the Federal Reserve announced that it will spend up to $600 billion buying up obligations of government-sponsored enterprises, and mortgage backed securities, many of which were the original targets of the $700 … Continue reading →

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No IEnumerable.ForEach?

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Jim

Overall, I like working with C# and the .NET Framework.  But sometimes I just can’t imagine what the designers were thinking when they put some things together.  High on the list of things I don’t understand is the lack of … Continue reading →

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