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Continue reading →: Catastrophic Error and Error 365
Tong Family Blog: Prefetch Exception and Abort Exception. I’m developing a negative attitude towards blackberrys 🙁 Since we last chatted about it, I’ve had more problems with the Blackberry 7230. First, I started to get Java Exception Errors when dialing and the phone application would crash. Scott then tried to…
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Continue reading →: Scion xB Upgrades
When I actually drove the Scion xB, it was cheap and great, but it had a couple of pretty big drawbacks. Fortunately, the thing is so customizable, that a quick visit to various enthusiast sites got me to the fixes for in order: # Low Power. It is only 108…
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Continue reading →: Transport Recommendations
Had a chance to drive the Prius and the Scion, the Scion is a pretty cool car. In depth in 2005, here’s my recommendations for cars. The main criteria are a) reliable, b) fuel efficient (30 mpg or more), c) seats 5, d) can carry a bike easily, e) can…
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Continue reading →: Blackberry 4.0 Problems
We just upgraded to Blackberry 4.0 clients at “Ignition”:http://ignitionpartners.com. Works for everyone but me. Here are my problems: * I can’t keep more than 50 or so emails. They just scroll off the bottom. I have never expires set, but it keeps happening. I’ve also noticed that I have only…
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Continue reading →: ATI 800XL
AnandTech: Price Guides, April 2005: Video Cards bq. Considering the fact that we were recommending X800XL video cards over GeForce 6800GTs a month ago, and the Radeons took a nose dive in price, we would be ridiculous to not call the X800XL cards our top graphics card pick this month.…
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Continue reading →: Opera swim
THE 1 !>http://www.opera.com/img/swim.jpg! MILLION DOWNLOAD CHALLENGE – Opera Web Browser. _Wow, 1M downloads in 4 days and now he swims to the USA. I have to say one of the best get close to the customer on the web pushes that I’ve seen._ Before the weekend, Opera’s CEO, Jon S.…
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Continue reading →: Pentium D vs. Athlon X2
AnandTech: AMD’s dual core Opteron & Athlon 64 X2 – Server/Desktop Performance Preview. _A very interesting set of comparisons. The D’s are so inexpensive and if only we could invent some software at “Ignition”:http://ignitionpartners.com that would exploit dual core, now that would be cool_ !
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Continue reading →: State Tournament Results
!>https://richtong.net/chess/chess2005-2a.jpg!:https://richtong.net/chess/chess2005-2.jpg It was a great tournament. A brilliant cloudless day with a terrific view of Mount Baker. The team up at Whatcom County did a great job at Lynden. Kudos to you all. The results are alread up Rating report for State Tournament. Some really impressive players. Congrats to all!…
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