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Dell Precision 7865 OOBE, part 2

September 3, 2023 Jim Leave a Comment

In the preceding post, I observed a gradual, intermittent failure of an OWC disk array. I suspected the OWC box, but it could have been one of the 18TB Toshiba disks, so I popped them out of the box and installed them in an OWC dock. I copied over 8 TB of data to each … [Read more...]

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Dell Precision 7865 OOBE

August 30, 2023 Jim Leave a Comment

In my new, much smaller office, I needed a new, somewhat smaller workstation. I had been using a Lenovo P16 laptop with 128 GB of RAM, and, while it served me well for most things, it couldn't handle the larger photographic and Matlab tasks very well. For the last decade or more, … [Read more...]

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OWC 32 TB Elite Pro U.2 SSD array

March 29, 2023 Jim 1 Comment

I ordered a 32 TB Elite Pro U.2 SSD Thunderbolt 4 array from Other World Computing a couple of weeks ago, with the idea of using it to transfer files in bulk between computers located at different sites. I sent it back when I found out that it wouldn't connect to any computer … [Read more...]

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Media Temple Support

January 18, 2023 Jim Leave a Comment

This site is hosted by Media Temple. I've used them for more than a decade, and they've been generally good. They used to have a trouble ticket support system which worked with a web browser and email. It wasn't a real time service, and it sometimes took them 24 hours to respond, … [Read more...]

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iPhone 13 update to iOS 16.2 — no service

December 24, 2022 Jim Leave a Comment

Day 1 Yesterday, I updated my iPhone 13 to iOS 16.2. Today, I went to log onto a website that required two-part verification, and I didn't get the text message. I looked closely at the phone, and in place of where the bars should be, there was "SOS". I did some web research … [Read more...]

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