Eric Stewart: Running Off At The Mouth

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Home Repair

by on Dec.02, 2008, under Home Stuff, Life

I’ve taken to doing a few things around the residence to make things work better than they did when we first showed up. This included replacing faucets, repairing toilets … the bulk of this post is about the latter. More specifically, it’s about flappers.

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“It’s a sure thing … ” – No, it’s not. VOTE.

by on Oct.30, 2008, under Politics

I don’t like hearing the future fortold …

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Verizon FiOS update

by on Oct.29, 2008, under Home Stuff, Internet Service Providers, Life, TV

An update to my opinions and experiences with Verizon’s FIOS service.

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Bright House Networks vs. Verizon FIOS – HD and Internet in Tampa Bay

by on Aug.16, 2008, under Home Stuff, Internet Service Providers, Life, TV

I had Bright House (BH) Networks in my old apartment in Temple Terrace, with an HD-DVR (see earlier blog posts about some of the things I encountered with it).

This blog posting serves as an example of how I can often repeat myself.

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Switching from Bright House to Verizon

by on Aug.12, 2008, under Home Stuff, Internet Service Providers, Life, TV

I hate sales calls. I’ve gotten a few from Sprint that have tested my patience. But only now has a sales call from a service I’m using caused me to drop that service.

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Where have I been?!

by on Aug.11, 2008, under Home Stuff, Life

In the middle of moving, it’s been a while since I’ve blogged.

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Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), Active Directory, Canon’s “EOS Digital Solutions Disk”

by on Jul.11, 2008, under Computers, Networking, Technology

This is where we find out that the permissions on Mac’s newest OS don’t always resolve properly for some software. At least we figured it out for you, so that if luck is with you and your Google-Fu is strong, you’ll find this page before going out of your mind.

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“Safely Remove Hardware” – “Operation has been cancelled”

by on Jun.11, 2008, under Computers, Technology

Yo Domain Admins! Safely Removing a flash drive can be difficult if you’ve mucked around with your GPOs. Read on for a pointer or two.

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Gnome, Winbind (Samba), and Wierd Characters

by on May.29, 2008, under Computers, Networking, Technology

Sometimes programmers are pretty sharp and ensure that their code covers all possibilities as far as unusual characters are concerned. Sometimes … well, they don’t even cover all of the possibilities for the not that unusual …

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New word: “unrecoverably”

by on May.05, 2008, under Technology

Okay, so it can’t be “new”, but Word didn’t recognize it and wanted to make it “unrecoverable”. In the support field, there’s “lost”, and then “unrecoverably lost”. It’s just a new form of an existing word, so I think you get the gist of what it means.

There is no “more …”

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