http://jen3ral.wordpress.com Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:45:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The migration from 7.5 to 11 was not as smooth as I had hoped. We used to netboot and ghostcast that way but with this new version I would have had to edit all the config files and I am not willing to put in the time to figure ... http://jen3ral.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/ghost-11-suite-20/ Original post So the tech just left my house and guess what? Yeah, not my gateway. He had to add an amplifier because the signal isn't coming into the house strong enough. Here's a screen shot of my status page again. Notice how the Downstream power is now perfect. ... http://jen3ral.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/update-comcast-or-me/ First off, we got some new computers at work that have the ATI Radeon 2400 HD Pro video cards. I wish I would have done some research when I had the specs for the new machines because I would have found out that ATI cards don't get along with ... http://jen3ral.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/ubuntu-804-ati-big-desktop/ I've been arguing with comcast for months and months now because my connection at home drops multiple times a day for anywhere from a few seconds to 30 minutes to an hour. They have not once sent a tech out to take a look at things, they just immediately ... http://jen3ral.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/comcast-or-me/ After nearly a year with ZERO notifications from the RIAA, MPAA, or ESA I finally checked my work email to find 5 notifications of alleged copyright infringement.  I can't be certain about why we haven't received any in the last year but an old coworker had a theory.  We changed ... http://jen3ral.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/the-riaa-found-us-again/ So I'm at work trying to get our new computers up and running. They came with Vista installed so I'm trying to put XP on them since we don't like Vista. We already have 1 vista computer, that's enough. I keep getting the BSOD when I try ... http://jen3ral.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/vista-says-no/ They are nothing but problems.  Mine was an a-65 and my friend's was an a-75, both had problems the entire time we owned them. First I'll list my issues: The tab that latches when the monitor closes broke one day during class when I opened my laptop and little tiny pieces fell ... http://jen3ral.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/just-say-no-to-toshiba-laptops/ So far so good since I reformatted back to factory settings. I've removed all the crappy programs I didn't want and now I'm installing all the stuff I do want. Haven't had any problems yet. Saying that I probably just cursed myself. But we shall see. I ... http://jen3ral.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/the-battle-with-vista/ I just bought a new laptop last night since my toshiba took a crap on me again, I decided that would be the last time. The only reason I was willing to get a laptop with Vista on it was because it came with enough ram to actually run ... http://jen3ral.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/new-laptop-yay-with-vista-boo/ A conversation about this started up again on the ResNet list. I've Gone through and picked out some articles that I think are interesting. "An affected institution is only required to "make publicly available to their students and employees the policies and procedures related to the illegal downloading and ... http://jen3ral.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/college-opportunity-and-affordability-act-of-2007college-opportunity-and-affordability-act-of-2007/