Once again the hardware mojo is plauging me. My nice, fast, expensive and awsome video card (ATI 9800 PRO) is giving me grief. It started out as some odd patches of (and I don’t know how to describe it better than this) wackiness when in 3D mode but has no progressed to full system lockups. […]
Getting to the Heart of the Video Card Problems Read Post »
Wow, anyone else watch the game tonight? After a furniture moving party Firefly, Lawrence and Cat5 (eventually) watched the game. And I do mean “game” in the loosest possible sense. 9-2 for the Avalanche, a lot of really horrible calls against us (we got 14 penalties, they got 2) resulting in what, three five-on-three for
Canucks Game Oh My Read Post »
So yesterday I got “The Call” from Shaw cable. Apparently they were a bit concerned over my bandwidth use lately. I peaked in December with 117G combined upload and download, 90 in January, and 68 last month. Seems hey have a limit of 20 Gigabytes of combined (combined!) upload and download traffic before you get
The Bandwidth Call Read Post »
Had some odd (and very annoying, in the throwing-computers-out-the-window variety) crashes while using my windows box lately. Nothing diagnostic, just the whole box locking up and the audio stuttering. It’s an Athlon XP2600+ (barton) on an Asus A7N8X motherboard with an ATI Radeon 9800 PRO and 1G of 333 (I think) RAM. Nothing hugely odd
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When in Microsoft Word I select some text and then select a style format, I’d really appreciate it if it actually applied the style. It seems to think that changing the font information to “strong+Arial”, which does indeed match the style I’m trying to apply), but doesn’t actually put the style name in the style
Word Bitch of the Night Read Post »
Finally, finally got around to getting Rex to the vet for a follow up on the surgery he had late last year on his eye and ear. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, but it seems that lately every day something is happening, or by the time I get home, have dinner,
Damn, someone beat me to it. Originally I had posted this entry as a reminder to myself to post a picture of scoble dressed up like the MSN butterfly thing, but somehow it was posted as live instead of draft, so whoever saw it just saw a copy of the blog entry that I had
Two Mysterious MS Forces Merged As One Read Post »
A while ago I was muttering about how things that used to look far in the future are now looking closer and closer. Mars, the deep sea, advances in computers and technology that we looked at in movies are suddenly much, much closer to reality. In the car I’ve been listening to an audiobook of
Snow Crash and The Near Future Read Post »
Raymond asked Why 16-bit DOS and Windows are still with us, and Mike answered. This is something I’ve thought about a bit lately, in a way anyway. Both dana and I agree that the time to break backwards compatibility is now (I still claim that I was the first to say it 🙂
Saturday I decided that since it was nice, why not wash the car. I didn’t want to just wash it though, I wanted to give it the full fred treatment. Since I got my car so many years ago I’ve been acculating a collection of car cleaning products, including mothers products, armor all, rim cleaner,
‘Lude Lookin’ Good Read Post »