Archive for the ‘Other’ Category

Air filter gets flipped around

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

My air filter in my forced air furnace has been getting sucked into the furnace or flipped around. I’m not sure what the best way to stop this from happening is. The first thing I’m going to try is buying a bigger air filter, maybe 1 inch longer in the longest direction. I’ll report back if that helps.

Best time to shop at Costco

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

This article recommends you shop at Costco during the business member hours (if you have a business membership) and otherwise visit Tuesday through Thursday when the crowds are best.

Search Google For … From New York Times Page Goes to Blank Search Page

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

When I’m on a NYtimes.com webpage and I highlight some text, right click and select “Search Google For” it just opens up a blank search page in the new page. Every other page I’m on works fine with this.

Does anyone know what could be going on? I’ll post more answers as I find them.

I’m on Firefox 3.0.10 in Ubuntu Linux.

Does the iphone alarm still make noise when the phone is set to silent?

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Indeed it does. I just tested it. Even though the phone is silent when a call comes in, your morning alarm will sound off just fine. (Disclaimer at least for me, don’t miss a NYC marathon to oversleeping on my advice!)

Reporting Services – Error When Starting Report Server

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

I got this error when starting the report server:


System.ServiceProcess.TimeoutException: Time out has expired and the operation has not been completed. at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus desiredStatus, TimeSpan timeout) at ReportServicesConfigUI.Panels.ServerInformationPanel.StartStopServiceTask(Boolean start).

To fix I opened up a command prompt and typed:

C:\> cd C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727>aspnet_regiis -i
Start installing ASP.NET (2.0.50727).
.............................................
Finished installing ASP.NET (2.0.50727).

Apparently I had some issue with my ASPNET account