Oh Apple, you card: Browsing networked Windows PC’s shows blue screens of death
Quite the excellent image by Apple, good show:
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June 2007
nVidia 8800GTS fix for ffdshow, CCCP, or DefilerPak diagonal blocking issue
Repeating this here because it might help anyone with a recent nVidia card running XviD video:
There’s a diagonal blocking/lag issue with the nVidia 8800-series cards when playing video using the commonly used Combined Community Codec Pack. To fix this, click Start / All Programs / Combined Community Codec Pack / FFDShow Video Decoder Configuration. (If [...]
Windows Home Server makes me want to forgive Microsoft for Vista
I’ve moaned and whined about the half-baked operating system Microsoft imbued upon the world earlier this year, and how its only real significant plus, for me, is the upgraded edition of Media Center. For the record, MCE has always seemed like beta software to me, and there’s no exception with Vista’s edition. About once a [...]
Tagged media center, microsoft, server, vista, windows, windows home serverNetworking adventures and roadmaps with a new TekSavvy DSL account
I figured that it might be a good idea to draw up a network diagram of my home setup in preparation for a DSL installation later this week. Since about January, I’ve been investigating alternate internet service providers, since there’s no way I can afford having a slow or disconnected Internet line. If Rogers decides [...]
Tagged hardware, networkHigh-res satellite imagery of Waterloo Region now available
From the UWaterloo LiveJournal community:
Google Maps and Google Earth apparently now both have high-res (the closest zoom level) images of Waterloo Region. The comments thread seems to indicate that the images were taken last year, sometime in the spring.
Todd Holmdahl weasels about the Xbox 360 failure rate
From Xbox-Scene: Dean Takahashi interviewed Todd Holmdahl about alleged Xbox 360 failure rates. Holmdahl is the “corporate vice president of Gaming and Xbox Products Group”, and effectively has NOTHING meaningful to answer during the interview. He also fails to answer questions that have even already been answered in public. The issue at hand is the [...]
Tagged angry, microsoft, weasel, xbox, xbox360Glitter Text comments nearly gave me an aneurysm
Observe:
It burns. Taylor Phelps of Charleston High School, you are hereby banned from any social networking sites other than MyCesspool.
Tagged angry, application, facebook, glitter textWhat is this Facebook applications nonsense?
Over the past few days I’ve seen a plethora of really inane applications on my Facebook news feed. At this point, I primarily use the site for stalking other people, since I get any relevant status updates and private messages sent over to my cell phone.
Seriously, though, “Glitter Text”? “X Me”? These sorts of items [...]
Safari 3 and OS X Leopard, with some new hardware too
Apple’s huge WWDC was today, and the Steve Jobs speech, while devoid of any new hardware, was fairly interesting in that it heralded the announcements of two huge features for OS X 10.5.
A new Desktop was nice to see, considering Apple’s effectively had the same Desktop UI since OS X 10.0. The improvements to the [...]
Developers, developers
There’s been a lot of whinging and amateur-lawyering over the past few days (including a massive dupe on Slashdot), about a controversy surrounding an app called TestDriven.NET. As far as I understand the situation, the primary developer is currently in a whine-fest with some people from Microsoft about licensing for a Visual Studio 2005 Express [...]
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