Category: General

Britax Advocate 70 CS – Yes, the side impact cushions are removable

I searched all around to try to find out if the side impact cushions on the Britax Advocate 70 CS child car seat are removable. I couldn't find anything, so I went ahead and looked. It turns out that each cushion is held on with...

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Canon MP560 scanner software possibly causing OS X 10.6.6 crashes for me

A follow-up of sorts to my earlier post on Canon MP560 and Snow Leopard troubles. I've actually seen a fair number of kernel panics lately on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.6 This last one occurred last night while we were...

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The Canon MP560 printer/scanner and Snow Leopard: not a match made in heaven

I don't know if it's the hardware or the software or both, but this printer/scanner has been fairly irritating with Snow Leopard. I'm quite disappointed, because I've had a lot of Canon printers and they have always been great....

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Cannot import photos from my iPhone 4 to iPhoto

For at least a few days I've been trying to plug my iPhone 4 into my MacBook Pro and then import photos from it using iPhoto '09. It chugs along for a while and shows lots of photos as its importing and then it stalls and then...

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Happiness is 2 GB of RAID 1-backed space

A few weeks ago, I added two Samsung Spinpoint F4 HD204UI 2 GB SATA hard drives to my ReadyNAS, which is using them to provide 2 GB of space via RAID 1. The only problem I have now is that the stock 60mm fan in the ReadyNAS...

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Don’t you love web sites with useless error messages?

Like this one:

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Editing a crontab with vim

If your vimrc is configured to use backup files and you try to invoke crontab -e (or vipw or visudo, etc.), you might get an error like this: crontab: temp file must be edited in place You need to make vim not do backups of temp...