Author Archives: ryan

Deleting a service in windows

Posted on October 7, 2011 by ryan

Use the following syntax in a command line prompt for Windows XP and above. sc delete “service name” Or create a service with this: sc create “service name” Note: Don’t add the quotes.

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Memorial Day Wishes

Posted on May 30, 2011 by ryan

Wishing everyone a great Memorial Day. To all our veterans, thank you for your service to our country. Freedom is not free, but through your patriotism and dedication we make it free for others to enjoy! God bless you!

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Accordance 9.3

Posted on April 17, 2011 by ryan

Accordance 9.3 was released early last week.  It seems to be a major release with a new user access bar for those just starting out in Accordance such as myself as well as a much anticipated sync function which will … Continue reading →

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Ejecting a stuck disk in Mac OSX

Posted on March 31, 2011 by ryan

Try typing the following command in terminal: drutil eject Otherwise, reboot your mac and hold down the mouse or trackpad button while rebooting until the disk ejects.

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Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 flash drive problem

Posted on March 28, 2011 by ryan

After installing Ubuntu Netbook onto a flash or pen or thumb drive, I received the following error while trying to boot from the newly created drive:   SYSLINUX 3.63 Debian-2008-07-15 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin Unknown keyword in … Continue reading →

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Making folders appear at the top of the list in Mac’s finder

Posted on March 3, 2011 by ryan

navigate to: /System/Library/CoreServices/ – right-click Finder.app and select Show package contents… – navigate to: Contents>Resources>English.lproj – backup InfoPlist.strings – open the original InfoPlist.strings in a text editor – locate the line that says: Code: “Folder” = “Folder”; – add a space at the start of the … Continue reading →

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Cool iTunes trick

Posted on February 28, 2011 by ryan

If you happen to be using a Mac and don’t like the iTune 10′s vertical minimize and close buttons, you can change it back to the old style. Open a terminal window and type the following command followed with the … Continue reading →

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Back from deployment… almost

Posted on February 10, 2011 by ryan

Hey everyone!  I’m currently in Guam and almost home from my deployment.  It has been a long six months mostly due to missing my wife and kids.  In case you don’t know, I’m stationed on a US submarine and have … Continue reading →

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Welcome to simplicity

Posted on August 22, 2010 by ryan

Hello and welcome to my newest blog.  In this blog I intend to keep a chronological record of the simple things that meander in and out of my brain.  It will probably only be interesting to me, but for those … Continue reading →

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