Onefinemess

The blog formerly known as Onefinemess.

so my views hit 0 yesterday or so

| September 15, 2009

For the first time in YEARS I think. So I should post something.  Right.  Because we’re all here for the digits yo.  Even if they be singles. So, what’s going on lately? Well, right now I’m annoyed that there isn’t an RSAT tool for Windows 7 RC, only RTM (how am I supposed to test [...]

Ubuntu 2 version upgrade in < 4 hours

| May 13, 2008

So a few weekends ago I turned on my almost never used Ubuntu laptop. It was running Feisty I think…version 6.something.  I just recently found out you could actually update entire OS versions from inside the OS – which I think is the boss shit.  I found the instructions here. Anyway, it worked almost perfectly. [...]

Why does “yes to all” not mean exactly what it says?

| March 28, 2008

You know one thing I really hate about Windows? When you’re doing a giant file copy, and there are several files mixed in that have attributes that set off the “are you sure you want to copy this?” pop-up.   And you hit “Yes to all” that first time, assuming it will be the only [...]

Windows Vista is Windows ME2

| January 3, 2008

I’m just sayin’.

Lesson learned: always use a primary key

| August 15, 2007

No, our house didn’t get broken into,  I’m talking about Access (Microsoft Access that is). So, over the last year or two I’ve taught myself a good deal about Access, and database stuff in general.  No classes, all just muddled through of course (although I did finally get a class on Oracle reports recently!), but [...]