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Key Disk Backups
“CDFreaks”:http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=81 has illustrated guides on how to deal with various copy protection schemes when you want to make a backup. If you’ve been buying lots of games like me and the kids wipe out the key disk, you are really hosed.
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Benq DW1640 Update
BenQ USA – Drivers DW1640. Benq has a nice web site and clear support documentation for its DVD Rewriters. Folks at “CDFreaks”:http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=154261 seem to like firmware BSMB so upgrade if you have this drive (btw, they just announced the DW1655 which is as fast as the 1640 but also has this Lightscribe technology where with…
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HP L2335 LCD lust!
AnandTech: HP L2335: Low Response Time and High Resolution LCD. Now that I’ve got that new Athlon 3800+ (running at 233MHz) stable, the next step is the lust for LCD monitor. The current trend is going to widescreen. “Tomshardware”:http://graphics.tomshardware.com/display/20050830/index.html and also “earlier”:http://graphics.tomshardware.com/display/20050706/index.html has also been tracking these. The monitors to get are all based on…
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Flac DirectShow Filter
CoreFlac Directshow Flac Decoder. I store my digital music in FLAC format. This is an open source lossless format. Winamp can play this back, but these folks have written a Directshow filter so anything that uses Directshow like Windows Media Player can now play it back. Other projects by “Corecodec”:http://corecodec.org include a Directshow ogg vorbis…
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Superpi stability
XtremeSystems Forums – SuperPI tweaks. Got some errors with it, but this might be because of old files. Here’s the tip on how to restart superpi correctly. bq. When you get an error, the first time it’ll most of the time be “not exact in round” but if you run superpi a seccond time it…
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Athlon XP 3800+ Overclocking
I always get less overclock that the magazines. The last machine I had, an Athlon 64 2800+, I got from 1.8GHz to 2.25GHz, but most of the reviews were reporting 2.4-2.6GHz. I think this is because I really want these to be stable. “AMDZone”:http://www.amdzone.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=164&page=1 got theirs to 2.7GHz but don’t have any details about how…
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Date night restaurants
Always a question what a good date night restaurant. There are quite a few in Seattle we like including: * Sostanza : Madison Park – Seattle. Romantic. Great country Italian. Ok, it ain’t Napoli, but its OK. * “Nishino”:http://seattle.citysearch.com/profile/10789937/. Some say it is the best sushi restaurant in Seattle. Great atmosphere and high quality. The…
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DFI LanParty nF4 revisited
OK, finally got a replacement Athlon 3800 and a new DFI LanParty. What an expensive experiment with that Arctic Silver. I ripped the CPU out of the CPU socket and torqued the motherboard and maybe the CPU. So if you have a Thermaltake XP-120 beware when you take it off. The safe way is *not*…
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Learning Chinese
It sure ain’t easy to learn Chinese. But, the web does make it a little easier. Here is one kind of cool tool called Chinese Chat. This has a bot that writes arbitrary pinyin and then you can click on each word and see what it means. Useful for the occasional look during mind numbing…