Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
A generous gift was bestowed upon me last week -- Dell's PowerEdge SC420 server. It came with two (2) 80GB hard drives which I have since replaced with two (2) 1TB hard drives. I decided to mirror these drives for the sake of redundancy using Linux's built-in software ...
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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 ...
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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 »
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 »
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Mark pointed out a question on the Adobe AIR forums that consisted of a guy asking whether or not Windows 98 would ever be supported. Our follow-up conversation is as follows:
Jeremy: who uses windows 98 still?
Jeremy: that's 11 years old :p
Mark R: PLENTY of people still use win 95
Mark ...
Posted in Amazing, Annoying, Depressing, Humor, Quotes, Ridiculous, Software, Technology | 1 Comment »
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 »
Monday, July 14th, 2008
These guys designed a Guitar Hero bot that uses photo diodes to sense when a note should be played. Genius.
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Posted in Amazing, Circuits, Entertainment, Gaming, Guitar Hero, Programming, Ridiculous, Technology | 2 Comments »
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 »
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
A recent vulnerability has been discovered in a popular web-content delivery program, Adobe Flash, which could potentially target World of Warcraft players and their accounts while they browse websites. The newest available version of Adobe Flash, version 9.0.124.0, does not contain this vulnerability and we recommend that everyone upgrade ...
Posted in Depressing, Flash, IT, Programming, Security, Software, Technology, Web Development | No Comments »
