Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

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 ...

Google Chrome: The installer encountered error 4.

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 ...

Create a New New in Windows Vista

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. No related posts.

Problems with your Dell DVD Drive?

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 ...

My Heros

Monday, July 14th, 2008

These guys designed a Guitar Hero bot that uses photo diodes to sense when a note should be played. Genius. No related posts.

Not Going to Cut It

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 ...

Upgrade Your Flash Player

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 ...

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 ...

Make Ventrilo Work with Windows Vista

Monday, April 14th, 2008

If you can't seem to get PTT (push-to-talk) working on Ventrilo while inside World of Warcraft try these suggestions: Set Ventrilo to "Run as Administrator" by right-clicking on its icon -> Properties -> Compatibility -> Click "Run as Administrator" Tick the checkbox that says ...