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Alex’s latest obsession is the Rubik’s Cube. Here are some hints for you, Alex: Rubik’s Cube – how to solve the Cube or cheat. There are many sites around the Web that can give you detailed steps for solving Rubik’s cube, and many are very good. However, if you want a quick run down of…
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Notebook instead
After looking at a Mac Mini, these mini ITX systems, I wonder a little bit why folks don’t just get a notebook instead. Essentially most of the technology limits get solved by low power notebook technology anyway and you get a free screen you can use on the road too. Dell has the Inspiron 1150…
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VIA Motherboards explained
“VIA Epic Motherboards”:http://www.mini-itx.com/store/default.asp?c=2. A good explanation of the many VIA motherboards that folks use for PC-based versions. A little complicated but essentially, * PD boards are older in either 600MHz or 1GHz both fanless for embedded applications * Older M boards that are 600MHz fanless or 1GHz with a fan but are optimized for multimedia…
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Mac Mini customization
They are so cheap to experiment with that everyone is hacking away at the Mac Mini: * HOW-TO: Turn your Mac mini into a media center – Engadget – www.engadget.com. A good source for how to actually get it all connected. Points out that one problem is that storage isn’t much, but if you are…
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Mini ITX
These systems are the closest that you can get with a PC form factor to an iPod mini. Some resources include: mini-itx.com – news. A great site showing both mini-ITX and the upcoming nano-ITX from VIA. “Hush Technologies”:http://www.hushtechnologies.com/start.html. I bookmarked before, but these guys make nice looking mini-ITX. “Logic Supply”:http://www.logicsupply.com/default.php. A do-it-yourself resource for making…
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wayback amchine
Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Pretty amazing site, it has snap shots of tongfamily.com dating back to 1998. I started the thing in 1996 and I wish I had been smart enough to keep snapshots like this. Pretty fun to look at.
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Sun Peaks Restaurant Reviews
There don’t seem to be many of these reviews, so here is what I and the kids thought. From our biased opinion focused on good food, fast service and nice people mainly. Here are our top picks in rough order of restaurants: “Mantles”:http://www4.deltahotels.com/hotels/hotelinfo.html?categoryId=2&hotelId=38. This is in the Delta Sun Peaks. They have got the friendliest…
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Sun Peaks There and Back Again
Sun Peaks Resort – Winter 2004/05. Just got back from there and before I forget, here’s a data dump on having a great time there…. h3. Seattle to Sun Peaks It is about 330 miles and we’ve never gotten there in less than seven hours including a break for lunch and the usual kid stuff.…
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Security hole in MovableType
Movable Type – News – Movable Type 3.15 released Version 3.15 fixes a vulnerability in the mail sending packages for all Movable Type versions in which the user has enabled comment notifications. This vulnerability allows a malicious user to send email through the application to any number of arbitrary users. Enough said. I enabled comment…
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Mac Mini as HTPC
a little ludwig goes a long way: mac mini as htpc. Ludwig loves his for HTPC use. I kind of agree it is the right form factor etc. Only small point is that he does say, and for once the mac is the price leader — compare with windows-based systems that people are “building:http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BuildingYourOwnWindowsMediaCenterEdition2005HomeTheaterPCSystem.aspx That’s…