Comments for The Braindumpery http://braindumpery.com Wherein Michael deposits the things weighing on his mind. Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:46:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Drobo Ordeal Followup by Mark http://braindumpery.com/2009/06/05/drobo-ordeal-followup/#comment-166 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:46:45 +0000 http://braindumpery.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-166 Hi Michael,

I am having a very similar problem with my Drobo with endless reboots. I was wondering about the special firmware that allowed you to access the files off of the Drobo before doing a reset- as you stated in your Newegg review- I was wondering how you acquired that and who I could contact to get that from Drobo without having to navigate the awful Tier 1 support I am currently involved with? This is critical to me as the Drobo data is unfortunately not fully backed up.

If you could let me know, that’d be great!

Mark

]]> Comment on iPad 2 Announcement Bingo Card by braindumpery http://braindumpery.com/2011/03/02/ipad-2-announcement-bingo-card/#comment-122 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:25:12 +0000 http://braindumpery.com/?p=192#comment-122 Thanks Godfrey! I put together a card at http://www.theapplebingo.com/boards/369.

Do you get points for an actual “Bingo!” (5 correct predictions in a row, column or diagonal) or just the individual point values of the predictions?

]]> Comment on iPad 2 Announcement Bingo Card by Godfrey Chan http://braindumpery.com/2011/03/02/ipad-2-announcement-bingo-card/#comment-120 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:51:27 +0000 http://braindumpery.com/?p=192#comment-120 I just launched this DIY bingo thing today and you might enjoy it :) I’ll update it live during the event.

Site: http://www.theapplebingo.com/
My prediction: http://www.theapplebingo.com/boards/42

]]> Comment on Cell Phone Blockers For Safer Driving by braindumpery http://braindumpery.com/2010/04/29/cell-phone-blockers-for-safer-driving/#comment-23 Sat, 01 May 2010 19:00:11 +0000 http://braindumpery.com/?p=138#comment-23 Pogue’s article was about phone software that prevents the host phone from calling or texting when it senses that the phone is inside a moving vehicle (based on GPS). So their “range” is the phone they’re installed on.

]]> Comment on Cell Phone Blockers For Safer Driving by KEN SOWDER http://braindumpery.com/2010/04/29/cell-phone-blockers-for-safer-driving/#comment-22 Sat, 01 May 2010 13:29:49 +0000 http://braindumpery.com/?p=138#comment-22 What type of range do thies blockers have?

]]> Comment on I’m a bad bad person, apparently by braindumpery http://braindumpery.com/2009/06/27/im-a-bad-bad-person-apparently/#comment-9 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:39:11 +0000 http://braindumpery.wordpress.com/?p=85#comment-9 And by “bad bad person,” I mean that I’m bad at being a bad person. Otherwise I’d have gotten in more trouble like the guy in Seattle.

]]> Comment on Pondering Google Wave by Doug http://braindumpery.com/2009/06/02/pondering-google-wave/#comment-7 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:56:32 +0000 http://braindumpery.wordpress.com/?p=63#comment-7 While Google’s reference client is a web app, since there’s a wave protocol it means that heavy clients can exist and store waves offline. Just hope and pray that your company doesn’t decide to adopt Lotus Wave as its standard…

]]> Comment on My (First?) Drobo Ordeal by braindumpery http://braindumpery.com/2009/05/18/my-first-drobo-ordeal/#comment-4 Tue, 19 May 2009 03:05:28 +0000 http://braindumpery.wordpress.com/?p=4#comment-4 I don’t actually use mine for backup; I keep all my DVDs and TV shows on it so I don’t have to walk to the DVD shelf (see http://plexapp.com). But it is frequently billed as an excellent companion to Time Machine. For Time Machine I actually use an ordinary 1 TB external USB drive. Since my primary machine’s main HD only has a 250 GB hard drive and I only need about 100 GB of that constantly backed up, the 1 TB external is plenty.

]]> Comment on My (First?) Drobo Ordeal by houstyh http://braindumpery.com/2009/05/18/my-first-drobo-ordeal/#comment-3 Tue, 19 May 2009 02:34:44 +0000 http://braindumpery.wordpress.com/?p=4#comment-3 Hey Mike, yeah, I need to do something like this to back up my data… might stay away from the drobo though.

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