Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Every year my desktop gets older, our mortgage gets smaller, the games get better, and I crave new hardware. The 1st step is to admit you're addicted, right? Without further adieu, I present you with my pick for the best gaming desktop of 2008. My picks were ...
Posted in Amazing, DIY, Entertainment, Gaming, Hardware, IT, Money, Reviews, Ridiculous, Software, Technology | No Comments »
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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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Kara and I decided to try someplace new for dinner tonight so I started the "Find Food" feature on my GPS unit. As we were driving along, Jamestown Oven & Grill popped up so we checked it out.
In the parking lot there were two vehicles: a delivery car and ...
Posted in Food, Reviews | 3 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 »
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, May 28th, 2008
Bluehost has upped their storage and bandwidth limits to unlimited and unlimited, respectively. I'm sure if you read the fine print there are exceptions. For example, if you use more than 1% of your unlimited quota they will ban you for life. But then again, 0.1% of ...
Posted in Amazing, Customer Service, Deals, Hosting, IT, Reviews, Ridiculous, Technology | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Today I was faced with a difficult wireless networking scenario: looooong house, many thick walls.
The topography is as follows:
Comp A Router Comp B
The house is older so the walls are very, very solid and RF-absorbing. The old setup involved a Linksys WRT54GX (802.11 b/g) as the router ...
Posted in Amazing, Customer Service, DIY, House, IT, Programming, Reviews, Software, Technology, Web Development | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
I got Kara a MacBook for Christmas since her old MacBook pro crapped out on her. It turns out our wedding videos and pictures were bigger than I anticipated so Kara's hard drive ran out of space. I used the following guides to successfully upgrade her hard drive:
MacBook ...
Posted in DIY, IT, Reviews, Software, Technology | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 was released today. I figured I'd give it a shot since I'm very disappointed with Vista's performance and SP1 is supposed to fix some sluggishness issues. This is the screen that appeared when I ran the SP1 setup:
Combined with the file size of ...
Posted in Annoying, Depressing, IT, Reviews, Ridiculous, Scary, Security, Software, Technology | 6 Comments »
