OK, so it’s not exactly what I was thinking, but it’s actually the best of all worlds. Let me explain.
Intuit (via Quicken) is the leader of personal finance software. There’s just no disputing that statement. I spent time evaluating other solutions, and nothing even came close to Quicken. There’s a [...]

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I can’t believe you have to buy the god damn XBox 360 Elite to get HDMI.  That’s so lame.  They should have offered it as a connector to those with “legacy” XBox 360s, also.
Hey, I hope you miss my OS business.  And my Office business.  In fact, I don’t need anything from you anymore.

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Did you know that `cups-pdf` is a free print driver for Linux that integrates right into CUPS?  I didn’t.  But now I do.  Awesome.  Everytime I think I need Windoze for something, I find the Linux equivalent.  Sweet.

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Actually, more than halfway, but who’s counting?
Tax season is over but, as you may have heard, Intuit had a rough end of season.  That’s why I dropped off the face of the earth for a while.  There were a lot of issues to be dealt with.
So I’ve been on vacation this week.  I ended up [...]

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Tax season is a bitch.

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Well, it looks like my data loss has become limited to only a little bit of really insignificant pr0n.  After the last ditch effort this morning, I’ve found everything I was possibly concerned about.  And none of the fancy-schmancy data recovery software helped me a bit.  In the end it was good ol’ open source [...]

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Woo-hoo!!
I went and bought a new external enclosure yesterday, since mine was acting wierd.  I then deleted the partitions that Ubuntu had created and ran `testdisk` under linux.  It actually found my missing partition!  I then had to run `chkdsk /f` on the drive, and almost all my data came back to me!  I have [...]

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Oh, wait. That’s not news. My bad. A good reason to post a picture though.

Should I mention… there was not a Wii to be found.

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Thanks, breals.  This totally worked.

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None of those 23 partitions were useful.  Oddly enough, there were files that I think were really old being listed, but none of my more recent files.  So now I’m trying Data Recovery Wizard.  I don’t know if it’ll work, but I’m not losing much by trying.

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