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Anti-Spam Plugins
MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse: New anti-spam plugins. Jay Allen notes that there are some great additional tools besides MT-Blacklist. Ones I have to load right away are: * “MT-Moderate”:http://jayseae.cxliv.org/moderate/. This moderates all trackbacks. I really need this. With this, I can turn TrackBacks back on!
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JBL Onstage breaks
JBL – Home Audio. I think I’m one of the unlucky ones. If you have an Onstage speaker system from JBL, then the thing either breaks or volume gets stuck. For me, it just doesn’t work. What happens is that there is a chip gets zapped. The conditions are: a) you have both the on…
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Flexible Date Travel
Flexible Dates. Here is Dad’s tool for flexible travel. YOu just select the length of stay to say San Francisco and then it shows you want the cheapest dates are. Pretty neat. The current lowest fare to San Jose for instance is $144 roundtrip! “Europe Travel”:http://www.expedia.com/daily/vacations/europe/flights-cars.asp?rfrr=-33044. These are their special fares from Seattle to London.…
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Airfares
It has gotten incredibly complicated (vs. easier) to find the lowest fares. The days of just typing into Expedia are over. Here’s how we do it and ironically, we ended up on Expedia but who knows: * “Expedia”:http://expedia.com. This is the place to start for vacation travel mainly because they let you choose each leg…
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Great Books
Alex has just been reading up a storm. Here are some of his quick reviews of good books to read. He’s been tending towards fantasy and dragons and I have to say these are terrific if not already widely read, here are his most recently read with reviews: * “Artemis Fowl”:http://www.artemisfowl.com/. Actually this should be…
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The Sims
TheSims2.com – Home. finally a modern game that Grace can love. This lets you basically play “dress up” on the computer. You can give clothes to a family, plan a picnic, etc. The neatest thing is that The Sims plugs into Sim City, so that they can live in a town. As Connie says soon,…
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Via Luke
mini-itx.com – news – VIA launches “Luke” Platform VIA today launched their “Luke” Corefusion Processing Platform at the Embedded Systems Conference 2005 in San Francisco, California. Luke combines both an EdenT-N CPU and CN400 Northbridge into one convenient aluminium package, reducing board real estate beyond Nano-ITX dimensions. This thing would make a great PC Mini.…
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AMD Venice and San Diego next month
X-bit labs – Hardware news – Venice and San Diego Already around the Corner. The first announcement stated that the current D0 revision will be replaced with the new E3 revision for the following CPUs that are the transition from Newcastle -> Venice that will start shipping April 4: * Athlon 64 3000+ (ADA3000BIBOX) ->…
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Lance out Paris-Nice
ThePaceline.com – Lance News Item Following the conclusion of today’s third stage of Paris-Nice, Johan Bruyneel, the sports manager of the Discovery Channel pro cycling team, announced that Lance Armstrong will not start Thursday’s fourth stage of the race. “Lance woke up this morning with a sore throat and with the cold weather, he began…
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Machine Check
STOP: 0x0000009C (0x00000004, 0x00000000, 0xb2000000, 0x00020151) …. Once I turned off automatic reboot, this is the error I got on the DFI GME855-MGF. What it means in short is that the Pentium processor threw a specific exception (Machine Check Exception) meaning that it detected there was an internal CPU-specific error. The most frequent reason is…