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Appliances, etc.
VC Mom.com: Home appliance etc. chat forums. Hat tip to Michelle, a great site on questions and information on not just gardening, but kitchens and everything else.
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Exact Audio Copy and Taiwanese CDs
_My Dad had a bunch of CDs from Taiwan he wanted to rip to his iPod. What a mess figuring out how to do this. Essentially, we are back in the days of code pages. The CDs don’t store unicode (unicode was invented after CDs), so you have to know how to set the code…
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iPod Cases
My dad loves his iPod 20GB 4G so much he uses it all the time, now he just wants a case that won’t blow out the bank. Here are some choices: * iPodlounge Review: Vaja i-Volution 4G with Wheel Protector, It’s leather and beautiful but cost $60! Great to go with a nice briefcase 🙂…
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Just a Ride
_As the kids use the iPod, its interesting to see musical tastes evolve, here mine and Alex’s intersect perfectly with JEM’s Just a ride_ Jem Reviews on Yahoo! Music Finally Woken, Jem’s full-length debut, fleshes out the It All Starts Here EP with six additional tracks. It features the addicting title track, the one that…
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MT-Ban-Numeric-Entities
a-giâu: MT-Ban-Numeric-Entities. Very clever, this plug-in blogs HTML that uses numerics to disguise spam. Pretty smart. Another thing to load and also once again proves the value of having a platform on the open internet.
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Anti-Spam Plugins
MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse: New anti-spam plugins. Jay Allen notes that there are some great additional tools besides MT-Blacklist. Ones I have to load right away are: * “MT-Moderate”:http://jayseae.cxliv.org/moderate/. This moderates all trackbacks. I really need this. With this, I can turn TrackBacks back on!
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JBL Onstage breaks
JBL – Home Audio. I think I’m one of the unlucky ones. If you have an Onstage speaker system from JBL, then the thing either breaks or volume gets stuck. For me, it just doesn’t work. What happens is that there is a chip gets zapped. The conditions are: a) you have both the on…
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Flexible Date Travel
Flexible Dates. Here is Dad’s tool for flexible travel. YOu just select the length of stay to say San Francisco and then it shows you want the cheapest dates are. Pretty neat. The current lowest fare to San Jose for instance is $144 roundtrip! “Europe Travel”:http://www.expedia.com/daily/vacations/europe/flights-cars.asp?rfrr=-33044. These are their special fares from Seattle to London.…
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Airfares
It has gotten incredibly complicated (vs. easier) to find the lowest fares. The days of just typing into Expedia are over. Here’s how we do it and ironically, we ended up on Expedia but who knows: * “Expedia”:http://expedia.com. This is the place to start for vacation travel mainly because they let you choose each leg…
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Great Books
Alex has just been reading up a storm. Here are some of his quick reviews of good books to read. He’s been tending towards fantasy and dragons and I have to say these are terrific if not already widely read, here are his most recently read with reviews: * “Artemis Fowl”:http://www.artemisfowl.com/. Actually this should be…
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The Sims
TheSims2.com – Home. finally a modern game that Grace can love. This lets you basically play “dress up” on the computer. You can give clothes to a family, plan a picnic, etc. The neatest thing is that The Sims plugs into Sim City, so that they can live in a town. As Connie says soon,…
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Via Luke
mini-itx.com – news – VIA launches “Luke” Platform VIA today launched their “Luke” Corefusion Processing Platform at the Embedded Systems Conference 2005 in San Francisco, California. Luke combines both an EdenT-N CPU and CN400 Northbridge into one convenient aluminium package, reducing board real estate beyond Nano-ITX dimensions. This thing would make a great PC Mini.…
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AMD Venice and San Diego next month
X-bit labs – Hardware news – Venice and San Diego Already around the Corner. The first announcement stated that the current D0 revision will be replaced with the new E3 revision for the following CPUs that are the transition from Newcastle -> Venice that will start shipping April 4: * Athlon 64 3000+ (ADA3000BIBOX) ->…
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Lance out Paris-Nice
ThePaceline.com – Lance News Item Following the conclusion of today’s third stage of Paris-Nice, Johan Bruyneel, the sports manager of the Discovery Channel pro cycling team, announced that Lance Armstrong will not start Thursday’s fourth stage of the race. “Lance woke up this morning with a sore throat and with the cold weather, he began…
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Machine Check
STOP: 0x0000009C (0x00000004, 0x00000000, 0xb2000000, 0x00020151) …. Once I turned off automatic reboot, this is the error I got on the DFI GME855-MGF. What it means in short is that the Pentium processor threw a specific exception (Machine Check Exception) meaning that it detected there was an internal CPU-specific error. The most frequent reason is…
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Summer Camps
There are as many camps as there are kids. Right now, I’d say that you are just missing the summer camp season. The main resource for this is the annual open house at St. Thomas. Was last month though. _You can also find this post at https://richtong.org_ Connie’s approach to this BTW is pretty cool.…
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School Survey
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DFI 855GME NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS
OK, Jennie installed iTunes and the next thing I know, I start getting a strange stop code, the machine just blue screens and then on every subsequent restart has the same problem called the NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS Stop 0x00000035. Lots of digging to figure out why, the long and short of it is that I can boot…
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Sim City 4 fixed
SimCity™ 4 – SimCity.com. Finally got this to work on an ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard by vI had the same problem. It was the nVidia sound driver. Loading the latest driver (the 5.10 unified) helped but still crashed every hour or so vs. every five minutes. Finally solved by going to the Realtek.com.tw site and downloading…
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Trackback Spam
Is anyone else getting mountains of trackback spam. With comment moderation and Typekey authentication for comments, those aren’t a problem. (Of course with IE, most folks can’t even make a comment because of cookie problems, you have to delete all cookies to make typekey.com work). But, the trackback stuff is completely unmoderated except for keyword…
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OCZ 4000 VX
AnandTech: OCZ VX Memory + DFI nForce4 = DDR533 at 2-2-2 OCZ VX Gold is the best performing memory that we have tested on the Athlon 64 platform. At the same speed and same timings, it significantly outperforms any other memory that we have tested on A64. VX does not run at the fastest memory…
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PC vs. Mac spped
OK, here are some benchmarks with Doom 3 on the Mac vs. the PC. Shows the Mac is actually quite slow still. This is done with a Power Mac G5 2.5 GHz and the ATI X800 XT, so it is not because of lack of hardware. Macworld: News: A first look at Doom 3 Mac…
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Pentium M on 478 Motherboards
X-bit labs – Hardware news – ASUS Offers to Install Intel’s Mobile Chips into Desktops. ASUS Upgrade Kit CT-479 will allow installing Intel Pentium M and similar mobile chips into Socket 478 mainboards. The kit will be available as a standalone product bundled with a special cooler that is capable of cooling Intel Pentium M…
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nVidia nforce audio driver 4.57 install
NVIDIA NForce Audio Driver 4.57. There is an update since the 5.10 unified drivers don’t solve the Sim City 4 crashes. But, it is not clear how to install them. Here are the note: * Drivers will not install on the following nForce2 products: Chaintech 7NJS. Please use the drivers that come with these products…
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Surf Camp
Surf Summer Camp La Jolla Australian Surf Academy. Who wouldn’t want to do an Aussie surf camp in San Diego. Woo hoo!
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CFS Tweaks
CombatFS – The Internet’s Best Resource for Combat Flight Simulator! – cfs3_tweak. A great list of tweaks to make with the CF3Config utility
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Combat Flight Simulator 3
Alex and Calvin love this game and it isn’t bloody but kind of fun. There are lots of sites with aircraft on them that they can try. The P-55 is very fun. Here is one CombatFS – The Internet’s Best Resource for Combat Flight Simulator! – main.
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Simcity 4 crashes nVidia Sound drivers
AnandTech – Bluescreen on nvmcp.sys. _Miracle of the Internet, someone with the same problem and the fix is an update to the nVidia sound driver_ Hmmm get nvmcp.sys crash happens suddenly when im playing simcity4…The sound gets stuck and keeps repeating itself… I have WinXP SP2 btw 5.10 Nforce drivers 66.93…. …that’s the nforce sound…
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bccode 100000d1
Now that we are playing more games, I’ve seen Windows XP just die without any traps at all while running Unreal Tournament 2004 on a Pentium M 735 (1.8Ghz) and also Sim City 4 on an Athlon 2800+. It utters something stranges about BCCode 100000d1. Here’s how to figure out what is going on. It…
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Bike Fitting
I get asked all the time about bike X or I want to buy get into it. First of all, if you are going to be getting a serious bicycle at all, like skiing, the most important thing is the fit. I used to recommend John Gallagher at “MaterialPost”:http://materialpost.com to do fittings, but now he…