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From the Search Results: The Madness Continues

December 24, 2010 / posted in Non-Tech / No Comments

Over the last few months, I’ve taken to collecting some of the odd search terms that people have used to find this site. They include:

  • cloud puns
  • go home and take a shower, sit on the floor, wallpaper
  • how to put moblin on iphone
  • insomnia efi boot
  • how to pull up the command prompt in windows 7
  • tea bag double double — Which I hope is in reference to this post, and not to the activity of “tea bagging”, political or otherwise
  • froyo wipe – This references the Android 2.2 OS (codename Froyo), but the idea of a “Froyo Wipe” is very, very disturbing.
  • crappy hardware
  • www.google.com ibm g p o  – Yes, they searched for ‘www.google.com’
  • “i got an agent right away”
  • how to polish shit – I know the post that triggered this one, but I’m still surprised someone actually found this blog with that search
  • microsoft shit
  • where did “the god damn batman” come from — Read this.
  • robocopying hosted vm’s - Wait, what?
  • mess of cables
  • what is the terminal emulator in rooted android – If you need to ask, you probably shouldn’t be using it…

From The Search Results: CLI Basics

June 7, 2010 / posted in Android, Linux, Makes Sense / No Comments

To the person who found my blog by searching “what command to run on terminal emulator“, I’d probably suggest the following:

help

From the Search Results: Product Reviews

May 24, 2010 / posted in Meta, Short, Software / No Comments

To the person who found my blog with the search, “is endpoint good“:

Meh.

(Seriously, though, it’s a matter of perspective — I use Symantec EndPoint 11 (SEP) because I can’t stand McAfee and most of the other enterprise-level antivirus suites, but yeah, it’s not that great).

From the Search Results: Processors

May 10, 2010 / posted in Hardware, Makes Sense, Short / No Comments

To the person who found my blog by searching “does intel quad q6600 work with windows“:

Yes. Yes it does.

From the Search Results: Backing Up

April 7, 2010 / posted in Hardware, Short, Support / No Comments

To the person who found my blog by searching for “raid 1 backup“, please note: RAID IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE BACKUP SOLUTION!

Any method of RAID (other than RAID0) is good for protecting against failing hard drives. However, it is by no means a backup solution, as it doesn’t save your data from things like accidental deletion, file system corruption, users, and malicious software. If you’re looking for a backup solution, investigate external hard drives, SAN/NAS devices, tape backup units, etc….

Please. For the sake of your data, get a real backup solution.

Short: From the Search Results

November 30, 2009 / posted in Hardware / No Comments

To the person who found this blog by searching for “i cant get to my boot menu when i press f11 on my msi laptop”, fear not! I have encountered this issue myself!

On the MSI Wind, and most computers in general, if you enter Suspend or Hibernate from within your operating system, the boot menu (accessed with the F11 key) won’t be available. Instead of giving you the option, the computer will gleefully ignore the keypress and happy resume the OS session.

To avoid this from happening, make sure you are actually shutting down the system. Be sure to check your Power Options, as your physical Power Button may be assigned to Sleep, and Suspend is the default action when you close the lid on note/netbook.

Short: Another From the Search Results

September 17, 2009 / posted in Apple, iPhone, Short / No Comments

To the person who found my blog using the search term ‘iphone exchange “missing emails”‘, it’s an easy answer:

When the iPhone’s Mail.app is setup to use Exchange, it has an initial limit to the number of messages it will grab from the server — the default is the 50 most recent messages. This can be increased to 200.

The key word here is recent – by default, the first 50 recent messages you load will be displayed. Want to see anything other than that? Sorry, you gotta use Outlook Web Access. That’s just how it was designed.

Short: From the Search Results

September 14, 2009 / posted in Hardware, howto, Servers, Short / No Comments

To the person who found my blog my searching for “where is the power button on ibm x3400″:

Behind the front cover (you have to remove it – it pops off on the left-hand-side), in the top-left, immediately beside the power light, as below:

x3400-power

It's the white button beside the green power light