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  • Chaintech Quieting Continues

    Now that I’ve figured out how to get the Chaintech to overclock, the next question is how to get the thing to run more quietly. The stock fan that comes with the Athlon 64 is incredibly loud. Runs at 3500 rpm and sounds like a vacuum cleaner. The Chaintech unfortunately doesn’t support voltage control from…

  • Blackberry Desktop Manager doesn't like Outlook 2003

    Forums – Desktop Manager crash. Sigh, I still get crashes from my Blackberry even with the latest software on the 7230 (v3.7) and the latest desktop manager (3.6.2.29). I get messages like uncaught exception and yesterday while dialing the phone kept crashing and going through a 5 minute reboot and reverify cycle. Arrgh. Sigh. Others…

  • Elipse is cool

    Eclipse.org Main Page. Pretty amazing IDE that the folks at “mFoundry”:http://mfoundry.com are using. Its amazing. This was an IBM project that they then made open source.

  • Old Product screenshots

    windows history. Beenlooking for old products shots. Amazing what is on the web. Here are old Windows boxes and screenshots.

  • Minolta Dimage 5400 Software

    Now that the Chaintech is essentially running, its time to start doing some editing with it. Main issue is to get my film scanner working. There is a dedicated Dimage 5400 “marketing”:http://konicaminolta.com/products/consumer/digital_camera/dimage/ that doesn’t link to any support site. Arrghh. I just hate these companies without integrated website. Instead, you have to go to the…

  • ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Overclocking

    Now that I’ve got the Chaintech and the Athlon 64 about in the right range. That is maximum memory overclock to DDR500 and maximum CPU overclock to about 2.45GHz, the next question is how fast can the Radeon 9800 Pro go. First some data on the Internet: * “Extremeoverclocking.com”:http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/reviews/video/Sapphire_9800Pro_4.html. My ATI Radeon Pro comes stock…

  • XP SP2 Problems

    Got my first call from someone that has SP2 causing them problems. Actually I’ve heard of two other folks with issues. Some folks think 1 in 10 will have problems with an upgrade, so beware. At my house, I have one SP2 machine that I installed as a greenfield installation, so I’m experimenting myself. Here…

  • Brother HL-5170DN Truetype quirk

    Brother HL-5170DN. Been using the printer. It is great with both duplex and network port. Main thing not covered in the FAQ is that it doesn’t do TrueType correctly, so printouts over the network fail. For some reason the default is to load TrueType fonts as graphics. This is fine at 300 dpi, but at…

  • Flash Reader

    Newegg.com – WOET TSERN ICR-A2 Beige Card Reader/Adapter. For $15 how wrong can you go. This thing lets you read just about any type of flash plus it has a USB 2.0 port as well. Great for upgrading a case that doesn’t have a flash reader.

  • Crucial Ballistix Overclocking

    I was able to get the Crucials to run to 217MHz before I had stability problems. This was running at the very aggressive 2-2-2-10 settings Anandtech recommends for Athlon 64. To get farther, you have to relax timings, I was curious to see what others folks experience was. The Crucial Ballistix 512MB Low Latency PC3200…