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wayback amchine
Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Pretty amazing site, it has snap shots of tongfamily.com dating back to 1998. I started the thing in 1996 and I wish I had been smart enough to keep snapshots like this. Pretty fun to look at.
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Sun Peaks Restaurant Reviews
There don’t seem to be many of these reviews, so here is what I and the kids thought. From our biased opinion focused on good food, fast service and nice people mainly. Here are our top picks in rough order of restaurants: “Mantles”:http://www4.deltahotels.com/hotels/hotelinfo.html?categoryId=2&hotelId=38. This is in the Delta Sun Peaks. They have got the friendliest…
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Sun Peaks There and Back Again
Sun Peaks Resort – Winter 2004/05. Just got back from there and before I forget, here’s a data dump on having a great time there…. h3. Seattle to Sun Peaks It is about 330 miles and we’ve never gotten there in less than seven hours including a break for lunch and the usual kid stuff.…
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Security hole in MovableType
Movable Type – News – Movable Type 3.15 released Version 3.15 fixes a vulnerability in the mail sending packages for all Movable Type versions in which the user has enabled comment notifications. This vulnerability allows a malicious user to send email through the application to any number of arbitrary users. Enough said. I enabled comment…
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Mac Mini as HTPC
a little ludwig goes a long way: mac mini as htpc. Ludwig loves his for HTPC use. I kind of agree it is the right form factor etc. Only small point is that he does say, and for once the mac is the price leader — compare with windows-based systems that people are “building:http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BuildingYourOwnWindowsMediaCenterEdition2005HomeTheaterPCSystem.aspx That’s…
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Back to Skiing
Had a great time skiing, back at it after a year with a torn ACL. It is amazing how you knee won’t hurt if everything else aches :-). In any case, I had new boot, bindings and skis, but only got to use them a few times before blowing out my knee last year. Here’s…
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Sony VGN-T140PL
VAIO T140 Notebook (Sony-VGNT140PL) – PriceGrabber.com. John “Zagula”:http://zagula.com was using my laptop and loving it. Here John is a link with the lowest prices. Newegg has them for $1845 delivered.
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Getting towed
Nothing like getting towed. Actually, it hasn’t happened to me since I was 18 years old in Chicago, but that’s another Rock’n’Roll High School story. If it happens to you, here are some things to know: * “Finding your car”:http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/transportation/parking/parkingtow.htm. It is actually not very clear where car disappears if you get towed. There are…
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Linksys WRT54GP2
TomsNetworking Product Reviews : TomsNetworking :. _Here is the perfect combo device for $100 or so. It has Wifi, router and also is a 2-port VOIP phone system. Quality on Vonage was only OK according to them._ The bottom line for me is that the GP2 is a very good, feature-rich, hardware based firewall /…
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USB Phone Charger
ZIP-KIT-NK1 ZIP-LINQ Retractable Nokia Phone Charger Kit at TigerDirect.com. NOw that I have USB connection for just about everything, I can charge my Blackberry, iPod, Bluespoon AX headset all from my laptop or any USB connection, the only thing left is my Nokia 6620 phone. Here’s the $20 solution from Tigerdirect. Its got the right…
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USB External Hard Drive
Deb asked me what’s the cheapest way to upgrade her Dell “Inspiron 8100”:http://www.gamers-depot.com/hardware/notebooks/dell/inspiron8100/001.htm and not have to buy a new laptop. A great question since laptops are not that upgradeable and they are expensive. She was thinking about buying a new 60GB hard drive and an additional 256MB of memory for a $300 upgrade. Given…
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Joysticks
Joystick Directory at Joystick Review. No one seems to be playing flight simulators anymore, so the reviews I’ve seen of joysticks are usually a couple of years old. Microsoft has even exited the business, although ebay has quite a few SideWinder “Force Feedback 2”:http://www.joystickreview.com/microsoft/sidewinderforcefeedback2.asp’s around. Thye have a great rating of 89.5 out of 100.…
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Sun Peaks
We are off to Sun Peaks. I’m actually kind of amazed how little information there is on the web about this ski resort. Well, maybe we can be the top hit 🙂 Anyway, here are some resources: * Sun Peaks, British Columbia – Reviews and travel information. There are a bunch of sites like epinions…
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hdtv capture
HTPCnews Forums -> Recording HDTV FAQ Q. Can I record my satellite provider’s HDTV feeds? A. No you cannot. The satellite vendors employ encryption and use a different signal encoding scheme than OTA or even cable. Q. Can I record my cable provider’s HDTV feeds? A. Yes and No. Yes, you can usually record the…
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htpc software
Home Theater PC News – Your Source for Everything HTPC Related Then you will want to look at building an HTPC around Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) 2005. MCE 2005 is a copy of Windows XP SP2 and a PVR/media center rolled into one. MCE requires a fairly new system with MCE certified drivers…
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Flash Drives
“Flash Drive Review”:http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/usb-flash-roundup.html and X-bit labs – Articles – Five Flash Drives with USB 2.0 Interface (page 6). A good review of flash drives if older 2003 review. The net is that drives have very different performance depending on the speed of the flash they use. Most are 8-10MBps whereas the Apacer HT203 is about…
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Another Dothan Benchmark
GamePC – Battle at 90nm : Power Consumption and Performance Compared Our Doom3 benchmarks show the “Winchester” Athlon64 in a more positive light, besting the “Dothan” Pentium-M by an advantage of about a single processor speed grade. The opposite is seen in Far Cry, where the Pentium-M bests the Athlon64 in terms of performance per…
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Office 2003
JR.com: MICROSOFT Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition in Office Productivity Suites:. _If you’ve got kids, here’s a very affordable way to get Office 2003. For $130, you get a copy of Office that can legally be installed on three machines. That’s a big discount over Office 2003 Standard and even compared to the Microsoft…
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Terapeak
Terapeak: eBay Marketplace Research. A pretty amazing site. This is a research database of what is actually selling on ebay. BTW while we are at it, check out our “ebay”:http://stores.ebay.com/Marketing-Playbook to get autographed copies of the Marketing Playbook. Category Research Understand category patterns & make informed decisions.
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Arctic Cooling Silentium T2
Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 :: SilentPCReview.com Arctic Cooling’s Silentium series represents one of the most dramatic adaptations of the ATX case standard we have seen so far. With the power supply mounted vertically at the front of the case and the main air intake through the back and bottom, the Silentium T2’s airflow is nothing…
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Creative Zen Micro
X-bit labs – Articles – ZEN Micro: New Digital Player from Creative Reviewed. Well it ain’t as beautiful as an iPod Mini, but at least someone is trying. It is a 5GB device that weighs 108 grams (thats less than 4 ounces for you Americans ;-). They liked the product, but hate the fact the…
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iSCSI for home
Tom’s Hardware Guide Mass Storage: Flexible Data Storage Across Networks: iSCSI put to the Test – Conclusion: Golden Times Ahead For ISCSI. Call me crazy, but the idea of iSCSI in your home seems like an incredibly good idea. The costs are not nearly as high as I would have thought. iSCSI means embedding the…
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Moore's Law is Ending
AnandTech: The Quest for More Processing Power, Part One: “Is the single core CPU doomed?”. _For the old computer system engineer in me, I just love Anandtech, they don’t pull any punches in explaining what is going on. Here is a great piece about why performance is slowing down so much_ In November 2002, Intel…
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Pentium M Review
AnandTech: Intel’s Pentium M on the Desktop – A Viable Alternative? Does the Pentium M have what it takes to be as competitive on the desktop as it is in the mobile sector? Now that the first desktop Pentium M motherboards are shipping, that’s why this review is here – to find out. This is…
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Gimli
LotR:Halda Tind?m?. bq. Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for? Gimli of Gloin One of the great lines in any movie.
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Airport Codes
Airport Code Search Results. We are planning our trip to Europe and here is what we need to know.
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Blown JBL On Stage
[JBL On Stage Problems?] – iPodlounge Forums Archive. Hey you have to be super careful with the JBL On Stage. Basically, you can’t just plug your iPod in with the thing turned *ON*. Take my word for it, if you do, then you blow out the On Stage. You have to plug the iPod in…
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UCDS Chess Tournament 2005
Well, we had the 8th annual UCDS Chess tournament. It was a great success thanks to incredible volunteers like Linda, Jeff, Jim , Asa not to mention Connie. For those of you who do tournaments, we’ve scribbled all our notes in the “Chess”:https://richtong.org/chess site. Its where we keep records on how to run a tournament.…
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Budget PC
Tom’s Hardware Guide Processors: Fast Computer On The Cheap? The Sempron 3100 On Overdrive – Socket 754 On Overdrive: A Fast Computer With The Sempron 3100 . This is a good review of a budget machine. It uses the AMD Sempron (a cripple Athlon 64). The CPU is just $120 with a DFI LANParty nF3…
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DFI Lanparty UT Nf4 Ultra-D
AnandTech: DFI nForce4: SLI and Ultra for Mad Overclockers. This is the new board to lust for. Did incredibly well and there is a mod that allows you to run dual cards at incredible performance… even the bottom-of the-line Ultra-D to run 2 PCIe video cards in x16/x2 mode at about 90% the performance of…