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Tom’s Hardware Woes
DailyTech – Editor In Chief and CEO of Tom’s Hardware Both Step Down. Tom’s Hardware started as a great site and it is a good example of the speed of the web. I too noticed about two years ago the quality had diminished and switched to reading “Anandtech”:http://anandtech.com. Apparently, the rest of the world noticed…
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GSB 87 up to date
Stanford GSB ’87 Alumni News. Well it took a year, but I finally updated the GSB alumni swebsite. Gosh, you really can fall behind. Also, I’ve got “Madison Park Trail”:http://madisonparktrail.org, for the group of folks who are trying to get a trail from the new SR-520 bridge which will hopefully have a bike lane to…
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Resetting Hijacked Firefox Search
Yahoo! Search blog: Firefox Toolbar: Beta no more!. One of the nasty things about the yahoo search bar in firefox is that it silently and completely resets default search. Here is how to get back to the default where google is used: # Type about:config in your location bar. This will display a list of…
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Snow, then Rain
SkiWashington.Com. Amazing conditions in the last 48 hours. First, it snows 15″ at Crystal and an amazing 16″ at the Summit (it is only 2500′ there!). Then it starts to rain like crazy. Who would have every thought that The Summit would have 129′ of snow. That’s over 10 feet! Larry’s “forecast”:http://www.skiwashington.com/powderwatch.php is for more…
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Perfect in car adapter
TEN Technology flexibleDock Adjustable Car Dock and Charger for iPod | iPod Accessory Review. So on the cheap, get this plus the Sony cassette adapter and you are set. $50 from the apple store.
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iPod Car Chargers
Well, now that the case decision is made, the main question is how to charge in the car. It works fine to charge my iPod nano with a generic USB charger, but my 4G ipod doesn’t work correctly. * Griffin Technology TuneFlex Auto Charger and Flexible Docking Cradle for iPod nano | iPod Accessory Review
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OCZ PC 4000 VX Tuning
Well, I ordered the OCZ PC4000 Gold 2GB Kit, but in the mean time, I thought I’d just tweak up the single stick of OCZ PC 4000. Interesting to see how to get the settings right. Basically, I got the thing with memtest to be stable at 238MHz FSB 1:1 with very tight 1T 2-2-2-6…
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Lexar JumpDrive Lighting and Kingston
AnandTech: USB Flash Drive Roundup – 10/2005. A good review of 1GB USB flash drives. The main message is that all drives are not completed equal. For $90 premium Lexar JumpDrive Lightening and Kingston DataTraveler Elite use fany high speed memory that means it will be much faster to write. Read the reviews though, most…
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Napili Kai Bearch Resort
Maui accomodations and lodging details – Napili Kai Beach Resort Maui. Asa swears by this spot on Maui. It is far from the big condo complexes and is just two stories and has its own beach. I normally think of Maui as gigantic resort heaven, so this is a good option with snorkeling outside, etc.
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Intel Duo Battery Life
Will Core Duo Notebooks Trade Battery Life For Quicker Response? | Tom’s Hardware. Well, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Early previews of the Intel Duo show there are some power issues. Some folks think it is the USB 2.0 bug in Windows, but we’ll have to see. The processor itself codenamed…
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iPod nano, video iPod and iPod Photo Clear Cases
There are as many cases as there are iPods it seems right now. I’ve tried three of them. The Waterfield one that is a nice cloth one with a hook for a 4G iPod. It is nice, but bulky. A silicon green thingy for my nano. It works, but I like the look of the…
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2 GB Ram Review
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Snow Reports on your mobile
!>http://www.summit-at-snoqualmie.com/sasassets/images/89/cellSummit.jpg! Summit at Snoquamlie. Get a text message when more than 6″ of snow falls at your favoriate resort. This sues a service called rubbersnow. Very cool.
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Jeff Renner Snow forecast
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Free Web Sites!
Brett & Theresa Central. My buddies at “Network Magic”:http://networkmagic.com have been busy. I’ve been working with them for three years now and Brett has been trying to make it easy to get stuff up on the web. This is Brett’s home site. It is actually hosted on his machine at hom. This net2go feature lets…
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2GB DDR Kits
AnandTech: FAST 2GB DDR Kits – Part 2. Well it has been along time in coming, but we are finally at the point where you can get 2GB on your machine with a pair of 1GB memory. Good for really memory hungry games. The recommendation is for the OCZ 2GB PC4000 from “part 1”:http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2560 but…
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DFI and OCZ compatiblity
DRAM Settings for DFI NF4 (all) VX, TCCD/TCC5, BH-5, 3200 Gold & General BIOS Info – Forums on the BleedinEdge. Wow what a great site I just found that talks about really making OCZ fly. Nice to have a memory vendor who knows their audience. Some quick things I learned: * All OCZ memory seem…
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Latest DFI BIOS
DFI NF4 Bios Files – Forums on the BleedinEdge. A good list that includes the coveted 704-2BT
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OCZ VX Bad Ram
DFI Forums – NF4 Ultra-D – 1 LED hang on 702-2. After hours of debugging, it turns out all these problems seem to be from a failing “OCZ PC4000 VX”:http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memory/ocz_el_ddr_pc_4000_dual_channel_gold_vx memory stick. Finally did a swap for some OCZ 3700 Gold Rev 3 and it booted fine and found there was one good one and…
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BIOS Beep Codes
Well, I really torqued the DFI last night. Got it all working again and even played a game for a while. Got it back to the 81.98 BIOS and disabled the dual cpu enhancement, but I went a bridge too far. I also updated the bios I thought to 702-2 but now it hangs on…
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BIOS 702-2 for DFI with OCZ VX and Athlon X2
DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI/ULTRA Bios. This table is hard as heck to read, but what it says that if you are willing to try a non-official BIOS (that is a BIOS which is not 623-3), then for a DFI LanParty UT nf4 Ultra D with OCZ VX PC4000 memory and an Athlon X2 you will…
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Disable Dual Core optimizations for 7800GTX and Forceware 81.98
NVIDIA Forums -> AWARE: NOT USE 8x.xx AT X2 DUAL CORE. _Apparently, lots of folks are like me, having trouble with BSODs and other crashes. Besides adding the AM processor driver, folks suggest disabling the dual core optimizations in the nVidia drivers. For high screen resolutions e.g., bigger than 1280×1024, they don’t help anyway since…
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Athlon X2 and Windows XP hotfixes
How to install the AMD X2 drivers, hotfix, the correct way. – XtremeSystems Forums. OK, I don’t know if this is valid, but the recommendation on this site is to apply two hotfixes to improve Athlon X2 stability and to make it work with ACPI… # Install the amd athlon 64 x2 dual core processor…
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Athlon X2 and Windows XP hotfixes
How to install the AMD X2 drivers, hotfix, the correct way. – XtremeSystems Forums. OK, I don’t know if this is valid, but the recommendation on this site is to apply two hotfixes to improve Athlon X2 stability and to make it work with ACPI… # Install the amd athlon 64 x2 dual core processor…
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DFI LanParty Cold Boot Problem Temporarily after BSOD
How to use the Zippy and 850SSI on DFI nF4 – 56K caution – XtremeSystems Forums. _This is reminder for me, that using the 5V and high voltage OCZ VX on the DFI LanParty is a little hazardous._ The long and short version is that you have to have the 618 or higher BIOS, this…
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Update on Seasonic problems
Tong Family Blog: DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra D problems. An update on my DFI LanParty problems. I got an Enermax 600W power supply and these boot problems disappeared. Now it appears that there is a fix for the Seasonic power supplies and their 5VSB issues, so you have to contact Seasonic to get a new…
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DFI Forums – NF4 Ultra-D – Nf4 Ultra-D power issues with seasonic Been in contact with Seasonic for the past 2 weeks concerning a faulty S12-600 Rev. A1. Just heard back from them today that they have a Rev. 3 that DEFINITELY fixes the DFI boot problems (at least that is what I am told).…
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DiamondMax 10 why it didn’t work
DFI Forums – [Resolved] resolution for disappearing Maxtor drives? (post #12). It doesn’t often happen, but sometimes you learn exactly why something doesn’t work. In this case, the early DiamondMax 10 drives don’t get recognized in PCs because of a pecularity of the SATA specification about how pin 11 or stagger spinup is handled. There…
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No nVidia GART in PCIe systems and never nVidia IDE
DFI Forums – NF4 SLI-D – tweaking windows (video for NF4 LanParty) *mirror added*. _OK, this clears up the myths about what to do about when you need the various nVidia drivers, it is confusing because in fact, on modern systems, you don’t want any of it but the video drivers…._ In a PCI-Express system,…
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DiamondMax 10 not recognized fixed with Autodetect NONE
DFI Forums – [Resolved] resolution for disappearing Maxtor drives? (post #12). _The old fix was to update the firmware, but you need to actually buy a vanilla SATA drive card so I just instead spent another $120 and got a later Maxtor, but now I see there is a simpler fix, what is happening is…