Geek Speak

I’d heard of the gmail logout loop before, but never experienced it until today when I was borrowing my mom’s mac. It was a terribly persistent little issue too. Essentially, when I tried to log out of my dad’s gmail in order to log into mine, I got caught on a screen that endlessly looped through the logout process without ever fully completing it. Restarting the browser window didn’t help, because anytime I’d go to gmail.com it’d have me automatically redirected to the same looping logout.

Clearing her cookies probably would have if I’d known where cookies were stored so I could selectively remove the ones I wanted without messing up the rest of them for her. But first I turned to google for my solution, and to my surprise, none of the top hits I scanned through had an easy fix.

So I figured out one myself. It’s easy, maybe even a bit of a face-palm sort of solution, but it worked. That page you’re googling from? Simply click logout on IT. That logout should work. If it doesn’t, try clearing your private data. You’ll have to re-log into sites that normally keep you signed in, but that’s not such a horrible thing. Good luck.

I didn’t get very many good photos at the UTOS Nerds in the Sun Barbecue this year, being stuck with a low res old camera and the rain and all. However, I must preserve the memory of Victor’s incredible grill… (more…)

I always thought I’d graduate to using ‘real’ book keeping software sometime down the road when I was earning enough to make great plans with my money.

As it turns out, I’m having to make great plans now. Well, greatly complicated plans anyway. I’m making my full-time-student budget work for me. We’re getting by, but just barely sometimes. And since I no longer have any W2 employment, I need a better way of tracking my income for taxes.

Open Office spreadsheets combined with downloaded statements from my banks had suited me just fine in the past. Now I’m looking for something to help me document everything more specifically, and help me to easily be able to pull up reports. The hunt commences today, and I’ll let you know what I find, but in the meantime if you’ve got recommendations I’d be happy to give them a go.

Remember my article on Lenovo Y510 woes? The summary – Lenovo makes excellent laptops and has great customer service, but the Lenovo IdeaPad Y510 (And perhaps some other laptops of theirs) come pre-configured with a tiny, easily revertible C partition for Vista and a large D partition for data. The problem is that all the windows user data.. favorites, desktop, documents, music, etc… are all also configured by default to sit on that tiny C partition. As is the swap file. So you end up crashing Vista fairly quickly.

Well, a few people have written in wondering how on earth they should move their default user data locations to D. Here’s my how-to… (more…)

Don’t you hate it when your laptop dies just days after your warranty expires? Particularly when you’re in the middle of having to go back to school, leave your home, find an apartment, and start a new life? That’s a story for another time, but suffice it to say, the timing really couldn’t be worse.
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