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Waste ink near full for Canon Pixma 780

By on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 | 4 Comments

What does this error mean that suddenly came up on my Canon Pixma 780? What is waste ink? After doing a bit of research I found the following: This printer has an ink absorber that takes in ink during the printing and print head cleaning processes. The cleaning process is necessary in order to keep [...]

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Easy Firefox profile backup

By on Saturday, June 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Want a nice easy way to backup your firefox profile? I discovered one that is much easier to do than the manual method I posted on this webiste a few months ago. It’s call Mozbackup, and is a great piece of open source software. To perform a backup, it’s real easy: Run the program, and [...]

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Move firefox user profile to new computer

By on Friday, February 13th, 2009 | 5 Comments

I had some issues with my work laptop the other day and all my settings for my applications had been lost. Damn I thought, I’ve lost all my bookmarks and firefox settings. However I had backed up my profile a few days before but wasn’t sure how to move it to my new computer seamlessly. [...]

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PC/Server uptime?

By on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 | No Comments

How long has my PC been running for? Often you want to find out as you need to know if your PC or server has rebooted. There are a quite a few software tools out there on the net that can do that for you, but you don’t need them. I’ll show you a couple [...]

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DNS-323 Stuck on 94% error

By on Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Had to setup a DLINK DNS-323 as a backup unit for a customer a short time ago. This was my first time with the Dlink as I had previously used a Linksys NAS200 but found them to be a bit slow and very little ventilation/air flow for the drives. I had two 1Tb drives which [...]

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