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Archive for March, 2009

Photo of my new pagefile.

Yeah bwoiee.
I have no idea what possessed me to do this, but I bought a 300x CF card and a CF-to-IDE adaptor to use it with, then I set it to be my Z: drive and put a 1.8GB pagefile on it. I figured it would benefit from the virtually-nonexistent random seek times that FLASH [...]

google apps?

any of you guys use this at your office?
we just found out that someone had created a site for our company. now that we have have control over it, the ‘create an account here’ button is missing from the sign in page.
any idea on how to get it back?

HTML META pass values

So I have this bit of code written as a php in html:
echo "<meta HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH content="0; baud_rate_set.php?check_board=$_REQUEST[check_board]">";
How do i pass it another value that i define (baud_rate=9)?been doing this stuff for about a week, so if there’s any ideas i’d love emecho "<meta HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH content="0; baud_rate_set.php?check_board=$_REQUEST[check_board]&baud_rate=9">";

Recommendations for…..

a free cd/dvd/image burning program? I’ve used Nero in the past and was just wondering if there is anything better out there right now? Thanks.Nero is indeed a bloated piece of crap. I use Deepburner Free.
on XP, nero was excellent. it doesn’t work for me on vista so i switched to cdburnerxp which works, [...]

How can I forward email sent to a domain?

I had a website…but there hasn’t been anything there forever.
The only thing I’m using the webspace for at this point is forwarding the email I get at that domain to my gmail account.
If I cancel it, how I can I keep getting my domain email forwarded? Is there a service somewhere?
Thanksso, you [...]

Gateway laptop burned my nephew

So, my brother was telling me that his son fell asleep with his Gateway laptop running. He ended up getting a bunch of 2nd degree burns on his arms where the fan was blowing out. Now, I know laptops are hot, but that is nuts.it happens. pretty common on dell and macs.

…. [...]

Is there performance difference between wrt43g 2.2 and 6.0?

With the different chipsets is there any concerns regarding performance. thinking of picking up a wrt54g 2.2 to work as a repeater.

Project management software?

what do you guys use to manage your projects. I’m looking for something where I can list my projects and enter daily notes. That is, when I open it i should have a space where i can enter today’s to-do and have-done, checkmarks, etc, and also what i have done the previous days. kinda like [...]

syncing laptop/desktop?

You mean general document syncing? Apply for the live mesh tech preview, I’ve been using it for a while and it works great.

don’t use windows, looks like something to play with tho.
those of you that work on a desktop and a laptop, how do you keep your work in sync?

Recommended DVD writing software?

So, I’ve got about 20-30Gb of files on my PC that I want to back up and a bunch of DVD+R DL discs. I want to put them on a DVD that I can just pop into someone else’s computer to show them the various pics/vids (my parents’ for example). What is the [...]