Thurrott on Vista… Not Happy

Interesting insight in Paul Thurrott’s latest Vista article. Paul is someone who I’ve often had resentment for, simply because of his (apparent) steadfast love of Microsoft and all things Bill. Turns out that he’s a bit more fair and balanced than that, and I apologize for the misgivings I had for him. Of course, maybe

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Household Duties

Finally it was not raining long enough today for me to cut the grass. Gads what a job… it hasn’t been cut since august of last year or so, so it was in rough shape. Even with the wheels on the mower set to their highest setting the bag still filled up in about two

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A New Computer (But Not For Me)

A few months ago a buddy of mine said he wanted a “new computer”. He’s not a real techy guy so extracting what he actually wanted was a bit hard. “Something that plays games” is pretty ambiguous, so it ended up coming down to how much he wanted to spend “I donno” and what he

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BattlestarGalacticaThon

This weekend was a good weekend so far. Mostly relaxing, an early morning this morning to do some taxi duty, other than that I had a couple of folks over for a last minute Battlestar Galactica-athon. Other than some issues with playing the DVDs with the episodes burnt in my DVD player (which normally plays

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How to Pull An All-Nighter

Some cool instructions on How to pull an all-nighter. And last but not least, don’t be a wimp. You have to be hardcore. You want that all-nighter. You need that all-nighter. You will get that all-nighter, and then you will tear a phonebook apart with your teeth. Man, I could have used some of this

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No Reason not to Buy a Mac Now

Well, other than price that is. If you get an intel based Macbook you can download a nifty little utility from Apple called Boot Camp which allows you to set up a dual boot of windows xp / vista and linux. Apparently games play nice and fast as well…. So now you have the sexyness

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A House Cleaning Day

Wish I had taken before and after pics, because I’m quite proud. After we got back from the (very fun btw, thanks Jason!) LAN party yesterday I figured that since we were having my folks over for dinner tonight, and we had 2 less computers and monitors in the office anyway, why not do the

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The OLD Ufies.org Server

One of the things I was petrefied of with the old UFies server was rebooting. The long delay as the scsi started up, various BIOS screens popped up and asked for attention, what if the updates I’d done over the last 2 years since the last time the box was rebooted had some unintended effect

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