if youre reinstalling windows xp pro on dell optiplex 755 and found out some generic hardware didnt have drivers loaded you might want to read this thread at arstechnica.com forum .
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at tuesdays nscoder sf an icon for which i have a good but clichad idea for i met thekarladam who showed me a few new twitter iphone applications. ill focus on twitterfon since i downloaded it last night and played with it abit.
bear in mind ive been a twitterrific user since the early days of twitter back in early 2007. it was a nobrainer to do...... [Show More]
megabus megasuck Post Source: weblog.lab1663.net Posted: Nov 10 2008 17:52:12
okay okay. im not being entirely fair there but its a catchy title for this post so im sticking with it p
on friday after work i hopped a megabus for a threehour trip to chicago to visit friends from the ars forums .
the trip up was pretty bad. the bus was completely full and most of its passengers appeared to be annoying college students the first sti...... [Show More]
it takes a long time to grow young. pablo picasso
today is chriss birthday. im not sure what hes more excited abouthis birthday or the election. it might be a tie. right now hes very graciously getting the kids ready for daycare while im standing in line to vote at way to early still dark am.
the kids and i have big plans for chris today. evey...... [Show More]
i dont even own a tv Post Source: feeds.feedburner.com Posted: Oct 30 2008 12:00:50
heres an internet culture test how long after someone posts a comment about a particular tv show will someone else respond with i dont even own a tv a it happens more often than youd think on the ars technica openforum it happened often enough that it evolved into a memejoke someone would ask for advice on fixing their toyota and someone ...... [Show More]
from the horses mouth at at the windows server division weblog
first and foremost 32bit is done. history. archives. windows server 2008 r2 is the first windows os platform to go 64bit only and frankly it was high time. customers have been unable to purchase a 32bit server cpu for over two years now and the advancements in cpu architectures really dictated that we squeeze a...... [Show More]
i was trying to set up a friends xbox 360 on my home network that uses a dlink di624 router rev. c with version 2.76 firmware and a brand new motorola netopia 221002 adsl modem but i wasnt able to connect to xbox live.
my xbox which had been connected for months with an open nat while using a old siemens speedstream 4100 modem never had any problems connecting.
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yes.we can Post Source: muchedumbre.com Posted: Oct 19 2008 17:56:57
taxes.
john mccain keeps saying that barack obama is going to raise everyones taxes redistribute the wealth and most of all that he is socialist. yes mccain said the s word today. i think i finally see the problem. somewhere along the way the republicans have turned the word soc ialism82 21 into meaning communism with despotic rule. this is bullshit scaretactics at it...... [Show More]
today we had a few hours to kill so we decided to do something thats both fun and yummy playing with chocolat o no not that way get your mind out of the gutter no...
we spent a bit of time cook ing making awesome snacks. we started out with marlis favorite festival food chocolat covered grapes. we both love this stuff to death and always try to get some w...... [Show More]
you are doing is obfuscating not encrypting. xoring is really very good obfuscation for very little effort. peterb apple et battlefront moderator tribus airstrip one oceania the beatings will continue until morale improves. illegitimis non
more continues here
related posts researchers turn a cold shoulder to the security of encryption security research...... [Show More]
i found this and many other pictures of the same failed hard drive in the ars technica forums and i just had to share it with the 3 loyal readers of this blog.
notice how the inner part of the platter near the hub has actually worn completely through the platter is no longer attached to the hub wow . go have a look at the rest of the pictures which are horridly fascinating....... [Show More]
this comes courtesy of macosxhints and is definitely in a list of things
i plan to do in the morning.
disable shadow in screen window captures
in leopard there is a shadow around wholewindow during screenshots ie
commandshift4 space. this can be disabled from terminal with this command
defaults write com.apple. screencapt ure disableshadow bool true
to make th...... [Show More]
o leitor daniel trezub prometeu que vai continuar com a ha muito tempo abandonada sarie os incansaveis ja tem ata o jogo escolhido para escrever e a um dos preferidos da galera que eu sei mas por enquanto ele resolveu traduzir um texto atimo que encontrou no ars tecnica sobre os problemas enfrentados atualmente pela microsoft com o xbox 360.
uma leitura muito interessa...... [Show More]
just some stuff Post Source: weblog.lab1663.net Posted: Aug 11 2008 16:58:13
it occurred to me this morning that it had been some time since id just given the rundown on what was going on and what was catching my attention these days political issues aside of course. i realize that it may only be of interest to a few of you but heres what ive got going on and what has me excited andor concerned lately
this coming weekend is gen co...... [Show More]
unless youve studied it a bit you probably have a few wrong impressions about how windows memory management works and that may be hurting your understanding of how to get good performance from the os. so here are a few links that are worth reading. on this topic there seems to beaa lotaofa just plainawrong advice out there on the web. so here are a few links which avoid those common mis...... [Show More]
...capitol hill
mellowynk my cousin used to have a mastiff that was well over 100 pounds and had delusions of being a lapdog.
blath im crashing at his place actually. also httpepi steme.arst echnica.co meveforu msatpcf 34709834 m42200134 3931
digimatt resharper turns off the vs intellisense by default you can turn it back on.
ejacqui im always amused to drive by an att more ba... [Show More]
over the past few weeks ive been updating my resume just to make sure it makes a good impression. id been using the same resume for three years now and have never changed much about the format nor the layout. i guess id gotten so used to doing it this way that in my eyes it was the right way tm. just to be sure i asked the guys in the ars technica boardroom su...... [Show More]
mmos x wowplot Post Source: mmocodex.com Posted: Jun 30 2008 20:59:59
mmos x wowplot i was trolling through the forums at arstechnica not too long ago and saw someone chatting up his latest project wowplot . immediately that thread went into the well for future column ideas.
via massively....... [Show More]
filed under laptops
hcls mileap has long been forgotten amongst the swarm of other lowcost laptops to emerge postces but a kind fellow over in bahrain was able to handle one for a tick snap a few photographs and dish out some early impressions. essentially this 7inch netbook was more akin to a vtech toy than a bona fide computing instrument and typing on the thing was ...... [Show More]
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