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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
The advent of YouTube, Hulu, Netflix's watch instantly feature, torrents, and offsite/online backup has made good bandwidth crucial to an enjoyable experience. The first time my wife got me killed by hogging the bandwidth while I was playing World of Warcraft I immediately cranked up the DD-WRT control panel ...
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
I decided to give Google Chrome another chance today, hoping there would be an update to fix the scrolling issue I previously discovered.
The following steps produce the following error message—if you can call it that.
Using Google Chrome, navigate to http://www.google.com/chrome/
Click "Download Google ...
Posted in Annoying, Bugs, Depressing, Google, IT, Programming, Software, Technology, Web Development | No Comments »
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
I was reading Life Hacker's Best of the Best today and came across Launchy, a Windows application launcher, so I decided to check it out. I run NoScript at work for security purposes so I was greeted with the following image.
And I quote: "This is where Ads would go, ...
Posted in Ads, Humor, IT, JavaScript, Programming, Quotes, Software, Web Development | No Comments »
Monday, September 8th, 2008
After much enthusiasm from the geeks at work about Google's new browser, Chrome, I decided to give it a shot. So far I'm impressed and depressed. Chrome's speed is almost unrivaled. Unfortunately, one of the most important features to me, scrolling, does not work properly.
I have a ...
Posted in Annoying, Bugs, Depressing, Google, IT, Reviews, Ridiculous, Software, Web Development | 11 Comments »
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
What? Creating a new new isn't useful to you, either?
Microsoft...after over 15 years of GUI OSs I would expect better from you. Guess I'm just insane to keep buying your software time after time and expecting different results.
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Posted in Annoying, Depressing, IT, Microsoft Vista, Programming, Ridiculous, Software, Technology | No Comments »
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop with Windows Vista. From day one I've had problems using Windows Explorer to navigate the contents. Anytime I double-click on the drive it tells me to format the disc and asks for the disc label even if there is content on ...
Posted in Annoying, Customer Service, Depressing, IT, Ridiculous, Software, Technology | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
I upgraded my laptop hard drive from 160GB to 200GB. In the process I was left with a chunk of 40GB of unallocated space. For the past 4 months I've ignored this space because Windows Vista's built-in partition manager couldn't do anything with it due to Dell's crazy ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
It turns out traceroute (or tracert for Windows users) is not bundled with Ubuntu; you have to manually install it. If you're looking for an alternative, simply use tracepath although it looks like there are some complaints. Apparently tracepath doesn't deal with NAT properly but traceroute does so ...
Posted in Annoying, Depressing, IT, Linux, Reviews, Ridiculous, Software, Ubuntu | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
It's kind of hard to play World of Warcraft when the packet loss is 19%!
Ping statistics for 63.241.192.122:
Packets: Sent = 1177, Received = 950, Lost = 227 (19% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 61ms, Maximum = 478ms, Average = 69ms
The ...
Posted in Annoying, Depressing, Gaming, Hosting, IT, Ridiculous, Scary, Technology, WoW | 1 Comment »
Friday, June 6th, 2008
I converted a Microsoft Word 2007 file to a PDF by clicking on the Acrobat tab and then "Create PDF". For whatever reason, on my computer I have to go through this process twice because the first time it doesn't actually create the file. After the second time ...
Posted in Annoying, Depressing, IT, Ridiculous, Software | 1 Comment »
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