Archive for October, 2009

Fall Colors

I took my sis­ter and her fam­ily up on Hib­riten Moun­tain on Sat­ur­day. I took some pic­tures with my new phone, a Sam­sung Omnia I910, and I was impressed with the qual­ity of the pic­tures. The weather was nice on Sat­ur­day, and vis­i­bil­ity from the moun­tain was really good.

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Posted in Photography

RCA HD52W58 TV

Today I fixed my Par­ents’ RCA TV. It has a prob­lem that a lot of RCA TVs have in this model line. The Hor­i­zon­tal Out­put Tran­sis­tor goes out and the TV will not power on. Instead it just makes a high pitched sound and clicks (that is the fly­back try­ing to start).

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Posted in Electronics

Block A Program Using Hash

Here is a lit­tle tuto­r­ial on how to block a pro­gram with Group Pol­icy, and the program’s hash.

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Posted in Group Policy, Tutorials

Tech Meeting

I went to a tech­ni­cian meet­ing in Ashe county today with my fel­low Techs. We met at Ashe County High School to talk about all things tech related to the school sys­tem. We got some good infor­ma­tion on how to serve the schools bet­ter, and man­age the 5000 PCs that we have.

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Posted in Work

Boy in Runaway Balloon Found

This kid must have seen the movie “12 Mon­keys”, some kids pulled a sim­i­lar stunt in the movie.

Boy Believed to Have Been in Run­away Bal­loon Found – Local News | News Arti­cles | National News | US News – FOXNews​.com.

Posted in News

New Phone

I am get­ting a new phone from work, a Sam­sung Omnia I910. Looks to be a cool phone, it has a full browser (Opera) and WiFi support.

Posted in Work

WordPress

Changed the site over to Word­Press – It is a lot sim­pler to use than MovableType.

Posted in Web Design


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