Category Archives: Hardware

Files Gone on Drobo FS with OS X Lion? Get ‘em back!

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

Using DroboFS and OSX Lion only to discover that your Drobo shares have no content!? Yikes! But fret not, you merely have a small corruption problem brought on by the firmware, and in moments you can force a rebuild of that database and all your files will be back safe, happy, and sound with no data loss. Here’s how. Continue reading →

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Apple Magic Mouse Sleeping on Win7

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

My bluetooth Magic Mouse kept falling asleep. Here’s how to keep it away. Continue reading →

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NTFS on OS X

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Trying to write to an NTFS volume on OS X, and all you find are third party packages and complicated config file manipulations asking you to reboot? Do this…. Continue reading →

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Mysterious Copyright

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

This is clearly one of those things I did to myself as a good idea, then forgot about, only to be plagued by it later. I noticed that all of my photographs on my camera were reporting a copyright with … Continue reading →

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Garmin WebUpdater

Posted on November 2, 2008 by Walt Stoneburner

I own a Garmin GPSmap 60CSx in order to geoencode my photography using HoudahGeo. Garmin now has a means up updating the firmware in their GPSs by using a WebUpdater, of which I use the version for the Mac. I … Continue reading →

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Macbook Pro Screen Goes Dark on Wakeup

Posted on June 13, 2008 by Walt Stoneburner

My MacBook Pro should have woken up when I lifted the lid, but all was dark. However, while checking the battery level, I noticed it had woken up. The problem was the backlight wasn’t coming on. Here’s the solution. It isn’t the brightness button either. Continue reading →

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Sticky Fingers: Logitech Mouse

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Walt Stoneburner

Ok, not making this up. It’s been so long since I used my home Windows system that the plastic on my mouse is decomposing. Literally. Not the rubber. The plastic housing. The hard plastic. Continue reading →

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Dell Inspiron E1505 Mouse Pointer Problem

Posted on August 16, 2007 by Walt Stoneburner

The cursor on a new Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 graphics card running XP Home looks like a vertical bar, not a pointer. Here’s the fix. Continue reading →

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New Apple Battery Defect (Model A1189)

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Walt Stoneburner

Got a 15″ Apple laptop battery that’s split out of its case? Exchange it! Got a 17″ Apple laptop battery that’s split out of its case? Sorry, “different problem.” Hear the Genius explain it. 17-Inch MacBook Pro Rechargeable Battery – Model A1189, Li-ion, 6N6184M9US0A. Continue reading →

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iPhone terms of service – deal breaker

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Walt Stoneburner

Apple’s iPhone Terms of Service do say some pretty nasty things, enough so that I’ve canceled my plans about getting one in October. However, OpenMoko, the open source phone, has just caught my eye with their sleek development kit. Ooohs and ahhs abound. Continue reading →

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