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New System for the Rec Room
Outlaw 7100. Good review of the 7100. Inexpensive and they liked it.
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Textile 2.0
Brad Choate: MT-Textile does that???. Wow, Brad does it again with very cool with additional commands like automatic link creators to connect to amazon, imdb and google. Nice work!
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MovableType Maintenance
Finally getting around to this (and lucid enough to do it). Basically, comment spam is overwhelming all my sites. 24 of the last 25 comments were spam generated. If you’re having the same problem, here is what you have to do: # Install Movabletype Version “2.661”:http://movabletype.org. This installs a comment throttler at least. There isn’t…
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Water vs. Air cooling: Corsair Hydrocool 200 EX and Koolance EXOS
Since I’ve been descending into geekdom, might as well go all the way, the current rage is to water-cool your CPU. Since heat is the biggest enemy when overclocking, folks have been using exotic cooling to get much better performance. If you nitrogen cool your Pentium for instance, you can get to 4GHz from a…
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Speaker Interconnects
Well, I finally got my Onkyo TX-DS989 back from the shop. I shorted out the speaker cables and blew the amplifier sky high. Had to go back to the authorized service center. Anyway, to prevent this in the future, I’m using banana plugs for all my speaker cables. They won’t then just short randomly as…
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ASUS A7N8X-X Update
Well, I’ve gotten the new power supply and it sure has helped. Here is where I am: # System runs stably at 198MHz, but won’t pass Prime95’s validation suite. Backing down the memory to 191MHz seems to make the system super stable. I’m guessing that it is the cheap RAM that is the problem. The…
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Outlook Spam Filter
Well, I had thought that the Outlook 2003 spam filter would obviate the need for external spam filters, but either I don’t understand it or I it doesn’t work well. Basically, it doesn’t seem to work in cached mode and it seems to require you to click before it fliters things. In any case, I…
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Really Debugging a PC
Well, here’s what I’ve learned about really debugging a PC that is crashing. Script for future use: # Get a device count and estimate power supply requirements. Make sure the power supply is adequate to the job. Otherwise, go get another one. # Run memtest86+ overnight. Make sure the basic CPU and memory systems don’t…
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ATi IGP9100 Review
I had great hopes for this integrated graphics system. Might save me from having to buy AGP cards. Unfortunately, the data shows that a $50 AGP card easily beats it. And it is 2-3x slower than a state of the art $200 card. These kind of integrated solutions are good for office applications though and…
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Color Profiles
If you’re working with color pictures, getting the right color on the screen is pretty hard. Fortunately, several sites produce things called ICMs, these are used by Windows to correct colors for you. For the displays that I support, here are the ICMs. You also have to set brightness (really black level) and contrast (really…