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STP Training Miles
Group Health Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic: Ride Information and Description. Well, the STP is coming and time to see how far off we are on training. There is really no way to prepare for a ride this long, but this is a good way to get a sense of where we need to be.…
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Power Desktop
Time once again for the monthly or so review of what homebrew system to buy. I’m going to split again into the power user and the radically small and silent perfect for a desktop or HTPC. Things are most stable right now but next month the Venice chip from AMD launches, so if you want…
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Radeon X800 XL
RADEON X800 XL Roundup. Right now these are the best price performance. The nVidia 6800GT is $400 and faster, but at $300, it is about 80% of the performance for $100 less plus it has all the HDTV modes and with the Gigabyte GV-RX80L256V SilentPipe it is complete silent in operation. It is PCI Express…
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Joystick Reviews
CH FighterStick/Pro Throttle and Saitek X52 Review. No one plays flight simulator games anymore, but I still love them. Someone finally did a review of some joysticks. The net is that the “Saitek Cyborg EVO”:http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/saitek_cyborg_evo_review/ is a decent one. I got the Logitech USB one for $25 and it is decent too. For those who…
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Sony HDR-FX1 Camcorder
HEXUS.net : Review : DVdoctor Column: March 2005 : Page – 1/1. [At the] tail end of 2004 when Sony introduced its amazing new FX1 HDV camcorder. This is a genuinely revolutionary product. Along with its companion model the Z1, the FX1 is set to seriously shake up the world of DV camcorders. It’s impact…
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Samsung 920T
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50K page views
Site Meter – Counter and Statistics Tracker. What the heck is going on with the site. We’ve been at a consistent 35,000 page views (there are some anomolies in Nov-Jan reporting because I broke the template but didn’t realize it). But this month, we are north of 50K views. Wow.
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Office for the home
!>http://images.jr.com/productimages/MSISTUDENTLPD.PNG?CELL=175,175&QLT=67&CNT=1.1&FTR=3&COLORCALIBRATION=1.7&CVT=jpeg! JR.com: MICROSOFT Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition in Office Productivity Suites:. Hoops was asking what he does for his wife’s Sony VAIO. They include an introductory version of Office Small Business Edition, but paying $250 seems a little strange for a machine that only cost $1800. A couple of solutions. Brad, “John”:http://www.theludwigs.com and…
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Microwave Oven Reviews
“GE Spacemaker II 1 cu ft 800 watts stainless steel JEM31SF”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=928352/search=spacemaker%2520ii. It figures that 18 months after we buy a microwave that it dies. We are stuck on GE mainly because they haven’t change the user interface and the thought of learning more than one is terrifying. Lists for $249 (stainless), but the regular colors…
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Ski now
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Great Customer Service
I spent most of my time essentially documenting bugs, so in talking with Jan and Robbie, I realized that’s kind of unfair. I’ve had a couple of great customer experiences when things break and kudos to those companies that are using the web and just plain hard work to make it happen. Electronics are going…
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Spyder2Pro and SiS 651 video
ColorVision – FAQs. Been color matching all my computers at home. Seems to work fine for two machines, but two of them have a startup crash problem. Actually version 1.0 doesn’t seem to but the one on the web 1.0.5 does. The Spyderpro2 faults and it is not clear why. The FAQ says its a…
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MS Walk
!>https://www.nationalmssociety.org/WAS/includes/getmyimage.asp?pa=51793173&pd=WAS0EWLK20050410SEA&s=personal_photo!Adrian’s MS Walk. Hey Adrian is going to walk for MS. A great cause. Contribute if you can. This online stuff is neat. Kind of cool to have a home page rather than the paper form folks have used before.
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STP 2005
Group Health Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic: Registration. It’s getting close enough that folks should start registering. $70 and you can do it online too.
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Passively cooled video cards
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Pentium M plus ASUS CT-479 and
AnandTech: Intel’s Pentium M Desktop Part II: ASUS’ Pentium M to Pentium 4 Socket Adapter. _If I build more Pentium M systems, getting the CT-479 plus P4P800-SE bundle is mandatory. Makes most sense for gaming applications._ Currently, ASUS is listing the CT-479 as a part of a bundle with the P4P800-SE, priced at $130. At…
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DDR 600 on DFI nForce4
MADSHRIMPS – Hardware Reviews ,Crazy Projects, Modding Tutorials and Overclocking. _Here’s what I’ll ultimately do when the new Venus chips come out next month, its a way to get your Athlon to run memory at 300 MHz!_ bq. Recently G.Skill PC4400/4800 became the hottest memory on the market together with OCZ PC4800 based on Samsung…
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Athlon 64 Overclocking Tools
ABXZone.com Forums – A64 overclocking tools. Here’s a great guide. I’ve used them all, but Clockgen can be very unstable. Haven’t tried the other two.
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Scion xB
!>http://cars.about.com/library/graphics/scionxb_ext.jpg! 2004 Scion xB – Test drive and new car review – 2004 Scion xB. _This car is just about everywhere at our school. It sure is practical and I love the price. As Alex says, just about as ugly as sin, but maybe right for Dad. Ironically, it was supposed to be for youth,…
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Trackbacks are killing me
Learning Movable Type: Trackback Spam. Another example of how anything popular is going to get spammed. Trackbacks are now the disease for me. Instead of just shutting them off, they are at least moderated with MT-Moderate so they don’t appear, but they are still very annoying. A new one gets through every day and there…
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Conway's Law
Conway’s Law Conway’s Law: prov. The rule that the organization of the software and the organization of the software team will be congruent; commonly stated as “If you have four groups working on a compiler, you’ll get a 4-pass compiler”. The original statement was more general, “Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs…
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Windows History
windows history and “Computerhope”:http://www.computerhope.com/history/windows.htm _Someone just asked me, when were you at Microsoft and what were you doing. I’m completely embarassed to admit that I know I joined in 1988 and left in 2000, but the intervening twelve years is a blur. Thank god for the Internet. Reminded me of some of the good old…
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Connectors
Now that Grace has a Sumicom S600, I can finally get my DFI 855GME to be a home theater PC. The main missing step is connecting my *old* HDTV monitor that only accepts component input. Fortunately, the HTI and NVIDIA Video Card Buyer’s Guide summarize very well what I need. That is essentially my 6800GT…
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Sumicom S600 is Loud
Who would have ever thought such a small box could be so loud. This is mainly because I have an old Western Digital WD120BB in it and it sounds like a vacuum cleaner. So, the next step is a $105 investment in an ultraquiet hard drive. These are mainly identical, so I mainly shopped by…
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Sumicom S350
SUMICOM S350 Wow, they just shipped this, this is a Intel 865GV system that is the size of a standard CD-ROM. A whole PC in 6x10x1.65″ if you can imagine that. Only takes Celeron CPUs and requires a slim disk drive and 2.5″ hard disk, but pretty amazing. It is $290 from “Cappuccino PC”:http://www.cappuccinopc.com/slimpro-sp350.asp. They…
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Windows Key Finders
Windows Key Finders. A super useful site, helps you to find those missing product keys in your installation.
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Slimpro 620 (aka Sumicom S620) and NEC ND-6500A
Finally getting my really tiny PC (6x10x3″) together from “Cappuccino PC”:http://cappuccinop.com called the SlimPro “SP620”:http://www.cappuccinopc.com/sp620.asp which is really the “Sumicom S620”:http://www.logicsupply.com/product_info.php/cPath/51/products_id/167 underneath. It uses the older Northwood Pentium, so was a good way to still get use out of my old Shuttle SS-51G with a dead motherboard. But, as I assemble it, the slim DVD…
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Nokia 6620 PC Suite
Nokia USA: Nokia 6620 PC Applications. I’ve had a boatload of trouble trying to get my contacts into my 6620. I know I have 5,400 contacts, so that is more than the average bear, but really. The original software CD has version 6.1 and it spend about an hour trying to synchronize and then would…
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Castelli Ypro3 Bib Short
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Primal Wear
Primal Wear. I’ve been wearing Primal Wear biking stuff straight for five years now and they are just now wearing out. Great jerseys but expensive (regularly $70), but Primal has an online outlet, so if you don’t mind the fashions, you can get them for $50 and if you buy two, you get free shipping…