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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…
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Boot Fitting
Sturtevant’s Sports Skiing Snowboarding Winter Sports . I just love Sturtevants. What a ski store should really be. Boy those guys just love skiing and with this horrible northwest winter, the 50% off sale is just incredible. But the thing that is most remarkable is the boot fitting. I’ve used two folks. “Jim Mates”:http://www.laterskater.com/Resources/links.htm#SkateFit at…
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Tandems
Upon further research, here are the choices for “fast” tandems that would be fun to ride. These aren’t the workhorse, ride across America, but great for a fast century or the STP. Precision Tandems seems to have the best site that pulls it all together along with pricing. Some options: “Burley Rivazza Race”:http://www.burley.com/products/tandems/default.aspx?p=Rivazza&i=4. This is…
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Stop torturing the Nav system
We love the 2005 Acura Navigation System with Voice Recognition that’s in our MDX, but Dad just loves driving around with the voice recognition on while taking a totally different route. Calvin’s reaction to all of this, “Hey DAD, please stop *torturing* the navigation system.” Never thought I’d get to torture a computer ;_)
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Brain Melting Math Problems
Another great Calvinism when he saw the latest brain stretcher I gave Alex. A simple what is 2^32-1. Calvin just looks at me and shouts, “What a brain-melting math problem?” Enough said.
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Co-Motion Robusta
It’s bike season again and the kids are tall enough to ride a tandem with me. For total drool factor, here’s a $7,000 (!!!) tandem that everyone can lust after…it id Dura Ace, but more important just 29 pounds for a tandem. That’s amazing. Co-Motion’s “Robusta” Tandem. If you’re looking at Co-Motion aluminum tandems, you’re…
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Wierdo Parts
In evitably with any “homebrew” project like this Pentium 4 system in a shoebox, you need some strange parts. For the Mocha 620, here are some: * LOGIC Supply Slimline CD to IDE adapter. This slimline CD to desktop IDE adapter is used for converting a laptop CD-ROM or DVD drive with a 50-pin connector…
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NEC 6500A connecotr
NEC ND-6500A 8x4x8x DVD+R/RW 8x4x8x DVD-R/RW 24x16x24x CD-R/RW DL Dual-Layer Slim IDE Optical Burner Drive for Laptops and Notebooks (Black, OEM) The NEC ND-6500A DVD Burner is compatible with most Notebooks and Laptops. The first thing you will want to ensure is whether your current drive’s front bezel has a straight rectangular shape to it…
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Travia C-156
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CPU Decoder Ring
CPU decoder ring – The Tech Report Today, AMD and Intel have abandoned clock speed entirely on some chips in favor of three-digit model number systems that are more or less arbitrary. It’s gotten to the point where you need a secret decoder ring just to understand what you’re getting in a modern CPU. Well,…
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SLI Roundup
AnandTech: nForce4 SLI Roundup: Painful and Rewarding. _Well the results are in, basically, if you are happy with 8xAGP (and there is no difference in real performance right now between that and PCI Express), then use a “nForce 3”:http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2128&p=19 boards like the MSI K8N Neo2, so get one of the two board below if you…
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StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon Reviews StumbleUpon is backed by a community of members who explore and review sites they like. These reviews help everyone discover the best sites and meet like-minded people. Ming and I were recently talking about how personalization is the key next theme for the web. Here’s an example of a “community” browser, you wander…
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CoolerMaster Hyper 48 KHC-L91
X-bit labs – Articles – High-End CPU Coolers Roundup: The Battle for Silence and Efficiency (page 16). _I normally recommend the Thermal Right XP-120 which has a massive 5 inch fan, but they got good results with a smaller cheaper (e.g., less than $50) Cooler Master model._ The best cooler among the models we tested…
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Pentium 600 and 800
[VR-Zone Hardware] – Pentium Announcements The Pentium 4 600 series, and the Pentium 4 3.73EE was announced today. Along with their support for EM64T, Intel’s 64-bit extensions, these new CPU’s also include SpeedStep power saving technology, upgraded security features through Executable Disabled Bit, 2MB of L2 cache. The 660 runs at 3.6GHz, 640 at 3.4GHz…
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Aopen Cube Mini
AOpen prepares Cube Mini Pentium M based SFF PC On the heels of launching the EY855-II XC Cube, its first Intel Pentium M-based small-form-factor (SFF) PC, AOpen is now preparing for the March launch of its smallest XC Cube SFF PC to date, the MZ 855, according to sources at the company. The Intel 855GME-based…
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Sumicom choices
Ok “King Young”:http://kingyoung.com.tw makes some super small form factors machines that both “Logic Supply”:http://logicsupply.com and “Cappucinopc”:http://cappucinopc.com resell. Here are the choices: * S615. This is a fanless 6x10x3″ case that has a downclocked Celeron running at 1.33Ghz, so it should be as fast as an Eden, but is slightly bigger than mini-ITX. $495 from Logic…
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Smartdeck
Griffin Technology. These guys at Griffin are just amazing. This is a iPod to cassette interface that is smart. Just $25 and available in 2Q05, if you fast forware, the ipod fast forwards. If you skip, then the cassette senses it and skips too. Very cool. I need this because our Volvo and MDX FM…
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e-Otonashi
Here’s another fanless case that can use the Via Epia system. As I said before, if you can, wait for the upcoming new motherboard, the SP if you can. Should start arrving in early April. Scythe’s e-Otonashi fanless EPIA-M cooling case :: SilentPCReview.com. This is a a do it yourself kit that uses a heatpipe.…
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Epia SP
OK here’s a technical solution to needing more horsepower to do MPEG4 decoding with VIA. First they have a super small form factor EPIA N coming in April. This will be a super small system, but with an updated memory interface. They are also doing a mini-ITX version too using a board called the EPIA…
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PC Recommendations
Kind of a fun month for PC recommendations because for once the underlying hardware is quiet. No big announcements of processors, video cards or motherboards, so instead of high, medium and low, let’s focus on some “odd” machines that might be fun to have. Think of them as alternative PCs. Sort of like taking a…