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  • Useful MovableType Plugins

    With MovableType 3.2 installation done, there are a couple of plugins that are pretty much mandatory installs including: * MtInlineEditor – Movalog Plugins – Trac. This lets you inline edit text entries. * “Enclosures”:http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/plugins/plugin/enclosures.html. You pretty much have to have this to do podcasting. When upload an MP3 that’s a podcast, this plugin sucks it…

  • DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra D and Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB fix

    Tong Family Blog: DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra D and Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300 bugs. Well, here’s an update, you need a couple of things to get this drive working right: As they say at “DFI-Street.com”:http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9496&page=6&pp=20 you have to get a new piece of firmware called the BANC1E00 and then you have to find a plain…

  • MovableType 3.2 and StyleCatcher

    Six Apart – Professional Network – Power Tools. Well, have flipped the “tongfamily”:https://richtong.org and soon the “geekfishing.net”:http://geekfishing.net blogs over to MovableType 3.2. “Ludwig”:http://www.theludwigs.com was right, the install is tricky, since configuration files are changing and there in compatiblities with the anti-spam stuff I use. Notably MT-Blacklist has to be manually deleted. In exchange though, styles…

  • Birthday Party Trek

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  • Speed Link Medusa 5.1 Headset

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  • Jin Mao Tower

    !>http://www.building.com.hk/feature/05_00jinmaopic2.jpg! This is an amazing building. Incredibly beautiful with a super high atrium in the Grand Hyatt that has the highest hotel rooms in the world. “Buildings.com.hk”:http://www.building.com.hk/feature/05_00jinmao.htm includes many interesting nerdy facts about it. Edward had told me that it had a huge ball in the center to keep it centered, but this is actually…

  • Tallest Buildings

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  • Best USB Flash Drive

    AnandTech: USB Flash Drive Roundup – 10/2005. The latest roundup. Last time, the Transcend was the fastest, but now we have 100x drives that are more expensive at $100 but incredibly fast. The two fastest overall are the Kingston DataTraveler Elite and Lexar JumpDrive Lightning. Both really fly because they are “dual channel.” That is…

  • DFI LanParty nF4 Overclocking

    AnandTech: OCZ VX Memory + DFI nForce4 = DDR533 at 2-2-2. I finally got the system working. I was getting all kinds of blue screens saying things like “Accessing illegal memory.” The issue is the nVidia Network Manager which everyone on web says that this thing is very unrealiable. I just used ZoneAlarm. Looking at…

  • pci.sys corrupt

    Computing.Net – pci.sys – Missing/broken 🙁. Been steadily going from my Windows SP1 up to SP2, installed the latest nVidia drivers on the DFI LanParty. Boy, was that a mistake, the thing won’t boot now and the boot system reports, missing pci.sys. To get this back, you need to find a Windows XP original CD…

  • DFI LanParty nF4 Active Armor

    Sigh, problem after problem. Installed the various drivers, ignoring the Maxtor problem right now. Now the Ethernet controller is on and see the DHCP host and I get an address, but mysteriously, I can’t access the Internet. Ugh. This seems to be a problem with the builtin nVidia firewall. Incredibly, when you boot it, it…

  • DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra D and Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300 bugs

    Some folks at “Hard Forum”:http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1028319389#post1028319389 think the issue is that Newegg (where I buy my drives) doesn’t pack them properly. Get them from ZipZoomFly or Hypermicro is the recommendation. Sage words about packing, maybe that’s why so many of my drives fail? “DFI Street”:http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9496&page=1&pp=20&highlight=maxtor+16MB reports that it is a problem with the Maxtor DiamondMax 10…

  • DFI Lanparty boots!

    Wow, I had almost given up hope on the DFI LanParty nF4, but amazingly, somehow it has come back to life. It must have been the CMOS reset. The recommendation is to take the battery out for a day. I didn’t plug the CMOS jumper in right and then I flipped the 5V dRAM voltage…

  • Quiet 120mm fans

    Tong Family Blog: Gigantic Fan. Well, I finally put the XP-120 into a machine and it was indeed big. Still need a bunch of 120mm gigantic fans. The Globe is hard to find and mnptech.com doesn’t carry it anymore :-0 So here is a new listing. “Sharky Forums”:http://www.sharkyforums.com/showthread.php?s=9df064fe0a0738b846800c5006cdd5c4&threadid=259758 has a good list of fans which…

  • Sony TX Series

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  • Bluetooth Headset on Windows XP SP2

    WindowsDevCenter.com: Getting Your Bluetooth Headset to Work in XP. _Argh, I have a bluetooth headset and a Bluetooth adapter, but it won’t work with the default driver in SP2._ The problem with the Bluetooth stack built into Windows XP SP 2 is that it has limited support for profiles. In particular, it does not support…

  • DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra dead?

    DFI Forums – NF4 Ultra-D – Ultra D: Leds of Death Once Again…. Well, I got a brand new 600 watt power supply and the thing is still dead. The LED standby power light goes on, but nothing happens when I push either power button. I also see the DRAM light is off.

  • 2006 Scion xB

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  • Chaintech VNF3-250 and Quiet N Cool

    Well, I tried to get my DFI Lanparty board working and I’m pretty sure I toasted it. At least I tried the Seasonic Supertornado 400 against a known good machine and it worked fine. Also put the memory in and the OCZ memory seems good. So, now I just have to wait for the new…

  • Bluetooth Headset

    Broke both my Nextlink Bluespoon AX headsets. In one case, Calvin stepped on it. Yuck and in another, it cracked because of a manufacturing defect. So on to find some others. There have been incredible price drops. The original Bluespoon AX that “CNet”:http://reviews.cnet.com/Nextlink_Bluespoon_AX_Bluetooth_headset/4505-6448_7-31228822.html?tag=pdtl-list loved and I did costs $120. Now, they are $60 at “Blueheadsets.com”:http://blueheadsets.zoovy.com/product/BLUESPOONAX-C?ref=cnet.…

  • DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra D problems

    I’m a failure. Have had great luck building my own machines, but now my latest masterpiece, a DFI NF4 Ultra, Athlon 3800+ X2, OCZ 4000+ and nVidia 7800GTX won’t boot at all. It is very flakey what is going on. I’ve had any number of issues: * The system starts and then all the fans…

  • nVidia Driver Install

    PlanetAMD64 > New nvidia driver 78.01 shows older 77.77? as they point out. There is always a new driver. However, if you do this, you really do have to clean everything up. The safest way to do this takes a while but it works: # Install DRIVERCLEANER PRO. Google for it. # Uninstall the nVidia…

  • nvmcp.sys Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) with SimCity 4

    nvmcp.sys.. I thought that this problem was solved, but Calvin just got this with SimCity 4 (not exactly a state of the art game) on his Athlon 64 3200+ on a Chaintech nForce3 board. Basic solution is to either. There is a new (August 23 dated) nVidia Sound driver their “download”: # Get a Creative…

  • Kids Bikes

    Tong Family Blog: Christmas is coming, time to. It’s been three years since Alex and Calvin got their K2 Zed road bikes. They have loved them ,but they are getting bigger, so nows the time to find out what’s next. They need bikes that are really right for someone who is about 5″ tall and…

  • Gmail for sending big files

    viksoe.dk – GMail Drive shell extension. I’ve had two requests for this in the last week. Basically, what’s the easiest way to send a big file over the Internet that mail systems can’t handle. Here’s the easiest way I’ve found: # Get a Gmail account. It stores up to 1GB of stuff # Compose a…

  • Mini Microsoft

    Mini-Microsoft. Wow, written up in Business Week, Slashdot, etc. Shows the power of the web when someone can put up a site like this about the insides of a company. Wonder how long it will last, so read it while it lasts. Some really greet insider comments. It took me an hour to read one…

  • Points.com and PriorityRewards Club

    Points.com | Get More Rewards, Faster. The wonderful free Internet is back. This is a site that lets you track all your various mileage programs and then trade between them. It is sort of free, it is $20/year to exchange all year, so that means, you can aggregate all those miles that are scattered across…

  • Laser Printer

    PCWorld.com – Top 10 Monochrome Laser Printers. Printers have been most worst purchases over the last five years. I usually use reviews like PC World to buy a printer. The print quality has been great, but the reliablity has been awesomely bad. Of the 4 printers I’ve been part of buying, only one is still…

  • Seattle Primary

    Seattle Weekly: News: Off Year? Off the Monorail! by the Seattle Weekly Editorial Board. Elections tomorrow. Good recommendations as always from the Weekly.

  • Power Adapters in China

    “Electricity around the world”:http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm. Just got back from China and figuring out what power adapter to take is incredibly confusing. China essentially has three standards for electrical plugs and if you are lucky to be in an international hotel, they will even take American plugs. So, have a good kit bag. Hopefully most of your…