Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category

Welcome to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Kara and I just returned from a seven-day trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. We stayed at Royal Decameron Costa Flamingos all-inclusive resort which had fantastic scenery and was reasonably priced at $1700 for the week including all meals, unlimited drinks, taxis to and from the airport, and airfare. The best part ...

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Sunday, May 10th, 2009

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Dream Gaming Computer – 2008

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 ...

DD-WRT’s Quality of Service Works Really Well

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 ...

Jamestown Oven & Grill

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 ...

Google Chrome Scrolling Issues

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 ...

Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 FTW!

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 ...

Where Is tracert in Ubuntu?

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 ...

Bluehost Is At It Again!

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 ...

DD-WRT for the win!

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 ...