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  • D-link 624 and Intel 2200BG woes

    I’ve had lots of issues with my old Sony VAIO VGN-140 that are described in this thread. Lots of hangs and poor performance. Lately, I’ve been having lots of problems with my D-Link 624 router. I’ve had to reboot the router twice today. Once because it wasn’t handing out DHCP addresses and another time because…

  • Powder!

    Crystal Mountain Washington Home. What a ski season in Washington. Canada has OK amounts of snow, but Crystal alone got 24 inches of powder this week and a whole foot in the last day. Eureka. Even “Snoqualmie”:http://www.summit-at-snoqualmie.com/winter/conditions.asp is swimming in snow. They have 12″ of new snow and a 49″ base. Amazing. Get out there…

  • Cool Chinese Tools

    On-line Chinese Tools. There are some great ones here including a flash card system for learning chinese characters and a complete dicitonary. Doesn’t have modern words like “venture capital” for example. or “blog” Most of the tools are based on the CEDict project which does translations for free on the web. They are either web…

  • Call of Duty 2 Rocks

    The reviews of this game are correct. The first Call of Duty just blew me away with its realism. From the shake mode when artillery landed to the sounds. Now this one is just more and more people and more and more of the same. I love it just the same. The Russian front for…

  • nVidia IDE Driver on nForce2

    Win XP/2K – IDE (4.15). There have been many reports about how flaky this driver can be. Mainly on nForce3 chipsets. For us, I found that our ASUS A7N8X-X with an old Athlon XP 2800+ would suddenly hang. Turns out that after much diagnosis, defragging a certain file on the system drive would cause the…

  • Dimage 5400 Utilities

    Software & Drivers | Support | KONICA MINOLTA. Where you download utilities for the Minolta-Konica Dimage 5400. The application is now old, it is called ImageScan 1.1.5. Been scaning old slides. Most I do at 2700 dpi since they really don’t have the resolution and have degraded some.

  • Recover XP PIDs

    RockXP download and review – recover XP activation code from SnapFiles. An exceedingly useful tool. Let’s you recover your XP Product ID from your Windows installation.

  • Learning Chinese

    “Zhongwen”:http://zhongwen.com is a great site for understanding chinese as it has an online dictionary that includes roots and things. It also has some great resoruces for learning chinese including: * Learning Chinese Online Page. This is one of many very good site for learning online and has pointers to zillions of other sites. * “CD…

  • IBEX Vantage JayVee

    IBEX Vantage JayVee Details. Peter asked about this bike. It is a great size for kids. A great value too because it ships directly from the manufacturer. The folks at IBEX are great by the way. The components are high quality. Much higher than a Wal*Mart bike and it will last a long time. And,…

  • George Hincapie in China

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