10/25/14 3:00 PM Took my two older laptops and donated them to Free Geek, in downtown Portland. Mailed my HP Pavilion 17 laptop for service @ FedEx today. Need to scan the receipt because it is that dissappearing ink that fades away. 10:40 PM Installed VoidTools Everything. This is an excellent free Windows indexing/searching program […]
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10/24/14 I finished backing up my hard drive on my HP Pavilion 17 laptop around 4 PM. I tried, unsuccessfully, for over an hour to get my hard drive to restore, but it kept giving me an error to the effect of “the restore partition is bad“. Tomorrow I will remove the extra RAM I
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10.23.14 11:16 AM I just finished writing a story about me jogging to clear my head and changing a bad habit pattern of lethargy into vitality called … I published my Dell Computer Setup journal from yesterday, and managed to change the timezone to “Los Angeles” in WordPress, so I should be able to keep
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2014.10.22 Today so far Today is my younger brother’s birthday, so I called an wished him a Happy Birthday. Since this is day 2 of easing back into eating from my fast, I ate a can of Amy’s Thai Coconut soup. It was delicious! I also spent about an hour or so adding images and
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2014.10.21 Greetings folks, I am overwhelmed by how cold my hands and feet are today. It is the day I break my 3-day fast and I find that even though my body is warm, my hands and feet are cold. I have been this way for the past week. I don’t know if this is normal
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2014.10.18 Greetings folks, I’ve just received my brand new Dell Inspiron 3531 laptop from Amazon and now I need to setup up and configure it. This will be the first part of an ongoing record of my setup process. This is mostly for my own knowledge, but please feel free to comment if this information
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Hey there folks! Today I am doing some updates on the site. I’ve gone ahead and updated the software to version 4.0 so I guess we’ll see if it causes any issues. Also, I backed up my site. In case you are wondering how to do that, here was my process: 1) Tools>Export>Everything. This will
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DISCLAIMER: Here are some notes I wrote on my steps in trying. This post isn’t really an article, more as a set of personal notes on how I troubleshot this particular HP OfficeJet 8600 printer issue. I publish it here mostly for my benefit, as an archive or journal. If it can help anyone else
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Apparently this is a common issue with Windows 8. Here is what I know from my own experience: It does not help to upgrade to Windows 8.1 No Windows Update has fixed this issue The problem seemed to start about 2 months after I bought the laptop, after a BIOS update (update must have been
ORIGINAL PROBLEM I spent hours tonight struggling with this Google Apps script I wrote to serve as custom functions or advanced macros. I adapted it from this StackOverflow post. The main issue I ran into was comparing dates. Here is my research path, and hopefully, some indicator as to why it took so long: STEPS
