Eric Stewart: Running Off At The Mouth

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …”

There are many DVR boxes out there that one can add external drives to in order to have more room to save stuff. Here’s what I encountered when I tried it with mine.

“Apple Software Update” originally offered new installations of “Safari” on Windows systems as an “update”.

Both are packages that allow you to run Windows (or other x86 operating systems) on top of Mac OS (assuming you’re using a newer Intel based Mac). I’m a long time user of Parallels Desktop, but I’ve recently switched to VMWare Fusion (and am hoping that work will pony up the $40 to get me […]