Eric Stewart: Running Off At The Mouth

Technology

“Firefox is already running, but is not responding.”

by on Mar.10, 2008, under Computers, Technology

A problem I’m seeing more and more at work is reports that people are attempting to start Firefox and seeing the error message: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. Along with suggestions about it. Now, hopefully you’ve been a good little tech and googled this error message, and tried all of the other […]

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XP, Vista, Dual Booting: My Experiences/Solution

by on Mar.03, 2008, under Computers, Technology

For those of you who dual boot Vista for one reason or another, you might be running into issues with getting XP or Vista to boot properly, depending on your configuration. There’s a lot of information out there regarding how you get it all working properly. The key is getting Vista’s boot manager to provide […]

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Vibrations: Do You Feel Phantom Buzzes?

by on Feb.13, 2008, under Cell Phones & Providers, Technology

This is mostly directed at the Blackberry, pager, or users of other electronic devices that put them on vibrate from time to time. See, my Blackberry knows when it’s in its holster, so it has “ring” settings specific to the holster – meaning I can have it vibrate when it’s in there before it actually […]

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AOL – Who do they think they are?

by on Mar.15, 2007, under Internet Service Providers, Technology, The Internet

So, if you run your own web site, or if you are site admin, or are someone worried about statistics, or more specifically, what search engines are doing to your site, here’s a little tidbit of info for you. If you’ve been doing it for a while, you’re aware of “robots.txt” – a file you […]

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I have a BlackBerry …

by on Jan.20, 2007, under Cell Phones & Providers, Technology

I recently went to Australia and did a lot of diving with a buddy who works for Research in Motion (they make BlackBerries). I finally bit the bullet and ditched my Treo. The Treo’s email management software (Business Connect) had a push feature that worked, then didn’t, then worked, then didn’t again, depending on the […]

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