10/26/2010

Dear Boise State,
Filed under: General — nobrainer @ 9:37 pm

Your blue field turf sucks. It’s terrible. I hate you and now actively root against you because of your stupid fucking blue turf. The turf by itself wouldn’t be such a problem, but you insist on wearing blue uniforms the exact same color as the turf. As such, when I watch your games, I can’t tell what the fuck is going on.

I hate you with a passion,

Nobrainer

10/19/2010

“It fucking prints money”
Filed under: General — nobrainer @ 10:21 pm

In an email from regular commenter LawtonFunk:

I know you’ve all probably seen this, but I saw it again this morning, and realized why it still funny to me. I always picture Nobrainer as the person helping the stupid customer.

10/7/2010

Verizon Wireless Card Dormancy — Linksys Print Server
Filed under: Computing,Technology — nobrainer @ 2:35 pm

For my work, I’m granted a Verizon Mobile Broadband card. It’s a nice perk, but for the last several months, it hasn’t worked right. It would work fine until I would connect to my work’s VPN (so that I could actually, you know, work). About a minute after connection to the VPN it would go into a dormant state and then disconnect very soon thereafter. Any number of google and bing searches revealed solutions that didn’t solve my problem. Finally, today, I found the fix at the SmarterGeek Blog by Rex Moncrief.

Wrote Rex:

I decided to troubleshoot. After all, I rely on the service when I am not at my office. The first thing I did was try and think of anything that had changed between Tuesday and Wednesday on my machine. My laptop runs a very clean installation of XP Pro – and I know every piece of software that is installed.

Linksys Print Server Utility 1.0
On Tuesday, I was at a client’s office and we installed a Linksys WPSM54G Print Server, which requires the installation of Linksys Print Server Utility 1.0 and naturally Linksys thinks it has to run at start-up. Typically, I would remove software like that from startup, but in my hurry I just hadn’t done it yet.

Funny. I installed some Linksys print server software many months ago when I purchased and installed a Linksys Wireless-G Print Server for my brother. Rex was right, the Linksys software is the problem. I just disabled it and now my Verizon access is being maintained perfectly.

Thanks, Rex!