Category Archives: Geek Stuff

Running Bootcamp using VirtualBox [Updated 2011-08-04 for OS X Lion]

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Garrett

UPDATE (2011-08-04)! If you installed OS X Lion and are having problems with “missing operating system” when you boot your virtual machine, it is because Lion installed a new recovery partition that re-arranged the partition numbering scheme. Replace any references … Continue reading →

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Monitor Servers Behind a Firewall Using Reverse SSH Tunnels (and Cacti)

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Garrett

Wow. What a subject line! It’s a little technical magic, but fairly easy to do. I won’t cover installing Cacti or the SNMP daemon. There are plenty of guides for those. However, guides for creating and using the reverse SSH … Continue reading →

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Kevin Smith and I are pretty much best friends now

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Garrett

…he just doesn’t know it. But, hey, he responded to a Twitter post by one of the @PredFans participants! Oh, and if you didn’t know, he’s a HUGE New Jersey Devils fan and a pretty active Twitter user. For those … Continue reading →

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Vista Activation Got You Down? Bypass it! (Sort of)

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Garrett

Let’s just start from the beginning (aka “the excuse”). I had to install Windows XP or Vista on my MacBook Pro for the data architect class I’ve been taking. Since this is work-related, I snagged work’s copy of Vista. We … Continue reading →

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Time Machine Backup to Samba NAS with Mac OS X 10.5.8

Posted on August 29, 2009 by Garrett

After a couple of days of struggling and Googling, I finally came across a resource that worked to allow Time Machine to back up to my NAS over Samba with Mac OS X 10.5.8. The resource I found is How … Continue reading →

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That’s Me on the Griffin Technology Blog!

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Garrett

I was featured on the Griffin Technology Blog as a prize winner from this past weekend’s BarCamp! Here’s a screenshot just in case they archive the post and it goes away.

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Networking at BarCamp Chattanooga 2009

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Garrett

We all know BarCamps are about networking. Typically people networking or social networking. The kind of networking I’m talking about is wireless networking. This past weekend was Chattanooga’s first ever BarCamp. The announcement of the BarCamp was made shortly after … Continue reading →

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Structs, Arrays, and Arrays of Structs in WSDL

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Garrett

I’ve been getting into creating web services lately for all sorts of tasks. I started out with XML-RPC and was hammering away pretty well with it until I discovered that .Net didn’t like to play with XML-RPC. Since this was … Continue reading →

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Another shot of the cardboard laptop photo frame

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Garrett
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Windows XP: Access is denied.

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Garrett

Error Deleting File or Folder Cannot delete filename: Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use. Sound familiar? Over the years, I have stumbled into this error … Continue reading →

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