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We are back and runing!

By marlyse | Published: Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Thursday night Central Time the lights went out on our server which physically was hosted in Dallas for the past 4 years. Dead and out. Just as dead as the service to track the problem – it all began with the plant having a power outage and this obviously fried our machine – and then [...]

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April’s Fool Day is what I thought.

By marlyse | Published: Tuesday, April 1, 2008

The G4 Power Book was the first Apple item that gave me problems and for the first time since the early 90′ties was I glad to have an Extended Warranty. Before I never worried and my needs never outlived the hardware, often I was able to sell the equipment when I upgraded to the latest [...]

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Sometimes I actually do love computers.

By marlyse | Published: Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Today I really, really enjoyed the easy Mac-PC networking at work. ME, I am Apple, since 1992… oh yeah, it’s been a while. my own business is all Mac. Of course I have a PB. And, as you know, since a few months I part-time as web / graphic designer. Of course the shop is [...]

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