In what has been the longest arbitration of an issue in the history of wikipedia, the online encyclopedia has finally issued a world wide ban against the “church of scientology” (not capitalized on purpose). The scientologists have been running a concerted effort to to maintain their status on wikipedia and push their agenda and point [...]
Posts Tagged '@thesnarkyone'
How does Google’s Wave Work?
David Wang from the the Wave team at google explains how operational transformations work to make Wave sho concurrent changes. (Non-geek speak – David shows us how simple math is used to make live changes to 2 different computers at the same time).
Free Computers for Needy Folks
UPDATE: We need a not-for-profit organization to help us send these PC’s to a good home. We don’t want to donate them the a company that will just turn around and sell them. We want them to be given to people that could really use a free computer. The computers are older and will work [...]
Yes. We Are Geeks
Geek -noun 1. one who is perceived to be overly intellectual. 2. a computer expert or enthusiast (a term of pride as self-reference, but often considered offensive when used by outsiders.) That is most definitely us. Patrick (@thesnarkyone) works as a IT Tech for a local company. While I, Brian (@bc42), attend Fountainhead College of [...]
The JL
The JustUsLeeg started out with @bc42 and @thesnarkyone having a beer at breakers. They went to high school together and decided the next time they should invite some other friends to show up. Little by little people started showing up every two weeks to geek out and have beers together. We then decided to have [...]
Why your IT department hates you
If you are reading this online you most likely do not need to. You may want to print out 100 copies and place around your office for your office mates that have “issues” with technology. I work in a relatively progressive place of business. It’s a medical facility and deals with some newer technologies, but [...]
How to “runas” .bat and .msi
We enjoy our ability to “RunAs” an executable file at work so we don’t have to log out any users. We want more. We want to be able to do the same to .MSI and .Bat files too across the whole domain. Here’s how. 1. Create a .reg file and put this in it: Windows [...]
How to Bullet-Proof your computer
There are a million posts and blogs out there that tell you how to make your computer safe on the interwebs. I’m going to tell you how to bulletproof the damn thing. I’m also going to tell you how to do it on the cheap. You don’t have to be an uber-geek or millionaire to [...]

