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Santa Cruz Juliana
Someone wanted to get a new bike from Santa Cruz Bikes. Here are the notes on buying a Juliana that “MTBR”:http://mtbr.com/reviews/2004_full_suspension/product_123148.shtml likes although few folks have it. * They have a great site for picking colors. She liked the orange with the black arm. For the front shocks, they now have a couple of choices:…
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PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_POOL
“PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_POOL”:http://kadaitcha.cx/0x50_error.html. I hope you never get this blue screen. Calvin’s machine is really sick. Got a bunch of these errors and then found out that the disk would refuse to boot with a NO SYSTEM DISK FOUND. Even using the Recovery Console (F8 with a Windows XP disk) didn’t help. Could see the system disk…
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Omega Drivers and Tweaking
TweakGuides.com. Well removing the ATI Catalyst 4.12 allows the machine to boot. I went to safe mode and whacked it and now it seems fine. I deleted all the drivers and will try a reinstall. Wish me luck. Also will try out the Omega drivers as well to see how that goes.
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ATI Crashes
*unofficial* ATi Troubleshooting guide. _OK I think I may have found what’s wrong with Calvin’s machine. Sounds a lot like video drivers. Here’s a note from someone who is using the same Chaintech VNF3-250 and ATI Radeon 9700s so close to his 9800. I’ve had the system fail to boot because of the video driver.…
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Etymotic ETY COM ER-22 Headset
“ETYCOM”:http://www.i4u.com/section-viewarticle-108.html. Etymotic is now making a headset. Should be very good for noise reduction given its design. The thing works fine with Connie’s 7100t, but just is terrible with hum on my 7290. I don’t know why. Others have recommended it, but doesn’t work for me. Something to do with the connector I think. “Cnet”:http://espn.com.com/4520-6448_7-5144869-3.html…
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Outpod
stoer.de// Outpod Home. What Ephpod recommends for getting Outlook contacts onto your iPod. The top Google hit is “iPodSync”:http://iccnet.50megs.com/iPodSync/ so that’s another to try.
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Graphics Card in History
Tom’s Hardware Guide Graphics Cards: VGA Charts IV AGP Video Cards – FarCry – Very High. I also found those benchmarks for Phil, I was looking for. With Farcry, there are the statistics comparing video cards by family: | Card | Farcry noAA/AF (fps) | 4xAA, 4xAF | Generation | | GeForce 6800 GT |…
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HTPC with Dothan
GamePC – Dothan Delight : DFI’s 855GME-MGF Pentium-M Motherboard and “Tom’s Hardware”:http://www6.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20041224/pentium_m_boards-07.html. To really build a quiet and cool home theater PC is a challenge. Using the Dothan chipset from Intel is one way to do it. This board from DFI would fit into even a small case or the Silverstone shown previously. The most…
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HTPC Cases
AnandTech: December 2004 HTPC Case Roundup. Big thing holding me back from building a home theater PC (htpc) has been a case. Now the Silverstone CS-SST-LC10B-M seems perfect at “$248”:http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-163-034&depa=0 from Newegg. It is just $140 if you don’t have the IR remote for the Media Edition software. So this is good for a full…
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Canadian Border
Well there are certainly a lot of border crossing sites. If you are going to Canada: * “Yahoo Maps Canada”:http://maps.yahoo.ca”. They have directions that cross the border * b o r d e r l i n e u p s . c o m – Know before you go !. Someones site with all…
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Hosted Exchange and Blackberry
Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server Hosting Dedicated Manager Host Outlook 2000 2002 2003 XP Windows ASP. If you don’t want to run your own Exchange and Blackberry server, here’s an option. Haven’t heard much about this, but if you have a family and you really want shared calendar, then this would do it for you. $10/month/person…
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Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 vs K8NXP-9
AnandTech – Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 WARNING!!!. Talk about arcane version models. The K8NXP-9 is the fast version of the nForce4 Ultra chipset while the GA-K8NF-9 is the budget board built on the budget nVidia nForce4 4x chipset not the nForce4 Ultra chipset. Confused yet? What this means is that the 4x chipsets won’t overclock at all…
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Lastest Updates
It’s amazing how many updates come up if you don’t watch for three months. Here are the latest for us: * BenQ America Corp. – Drivers – CD-ROM; CD-RW; DVD-ROM; DVD-RW. We have the DW1620. Latest flash is B7P9 from B7K9. These upgrades usually improve compatibility. * “ATI Catalyst”:http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html. These ATI drivers update every 15…
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VNF3-250 BIOS
Chaintech VNF3-250 Motherboard BIOS’s. If you dare, here are hacked BIOSes that fix various problems. Also I just noticed that this board’s HyperTransport only goes to 1600MHz so with a 4x I’ve been way overclocking it (running at 200MHz gets you to 1600 MHz, I believe).
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Chaintech VNF3-250 Quirks
Overclockers Forums – Other AMD Boards. OK, I have one of these and it works well, but has a couple of interesting quirks: * USB 2.0. When I have my Minolta-Konica Dimage 5400 plugged in and on, the boot sequence will hang. As long as it is off, it works. Seems like there is something…
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HDTV Options
Time once again to think about watching HD. Right now we have Comcast HD and their digital cable package plus Netflix. I have to VOOM : See It
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iPod photo
iPodlounge iPod photo review. A good balanced review of the iPod photo. I’d summarize by saying really beautiful screen, but the photo stuff is pretty lame. For myself, my photos cause itunes to crash when it is trying to process them. It really doesn’t like tif files and barfs on them as it trys to…
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Colorvision Spyder2Pro and Printfix
Well, I’ve been scanning quite a few 35mm slides now and getting quite good at it. My monitor and printer still aren’t calibrated though and with the Spyder2Pro finally in distribution at about $240 or $100 more with Printfix, its time to look seriously at buying one. Here are some reviews: * PrintFIX. Basically, the…
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Bluetooth and Wifi collision
Handtops.com- New OQO WIFI Drivers!!! Dated 11/11/04. _Hat tip to Handtops.com, this is exactly my problem, I see a signal, but DHCP hangs. Sounds like the fix is to deinstall the Bluetooth drivers_ While I was in an experimenting mood, I tried something else in an attempt to get to the bottom of the problem…
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OQO Buzzing and Wifi
jkOnTheRun: Further hardware problems for the OQO. this guy is just ahead of me. Just noticed the AC Adapter buzzing and I can’t acquire a Wifi signal. Actually, it report it sees the signal, but can’t DHCP. Wierd.
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More on OQO
jkOnTheRun: Problems in OQO-land. Hat tip to Jonathan Kellerman for pointing out where to get help on the OQO. He points out that most OQO users hang out at the “OQO Forum”:http://www.handtops.com/show/forum/3 so maybe I can get some problems fixed there.
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OQO
My buddy “Mike Kwatinetz”:http://www.azurecap.com/html/partners/kwatinetz.html is an investor in “OQO”:http://oqo.com as reviewed by “Tomshardware”:Tom’s Hardware Guide Mobile Devices: The OQO: WindowsXP in the Palm of Your Hand – Introduction, “engadget”:http://www.engadget.com/entry/9535533665475287/ and a good review by “webchat on handtop.com”:http://www.handtops.com/show/news/42/0/What_is_the_OQO.html I bought a Model 01 to see what the experience is. IMHO there is a real product playbook…
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Audioscribbler
Audioscrobbler :: Home. A cool application. It installs in your music player and then you vote by simply playing music. Kind of interesting to see popularity like this.
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Windows doesn't recognize iPod
Your Windows PC doesn’t recognize iPod. Things have been working great, so of course Murphy’s Law says things should start to fail đ My 40GB iPod Photo suddenly isn’t recognized by Windows over USB 2.0. Doesn’t work across two Windows machines but it does work with Firewire to a Macintosh. Mysterious thing is that it…
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Last Minute Shopping
“Hoops”:http://scbhooper.com said he had a bit of quick shopping to do. It is amazing how you can still get things online and quasi-online just a few days before Christmas. Here are notes for last minute shoppers: * “Outpost.com”:http://outpost.com. This is the cyber outlet for Fry’s. So if you don’t feel like jetting over to Fry’s,…
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MovableType Upgrade
Movable Type Publishing Platform: Movable Type 3.14 released. You’ll want to get this one, it fixes slow downs because of massive spam attacks. Sigh. Sign of the modern world.
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Cordless Drills
Choosing a Cordless Drills. My Dad still has the same drill he bought from Sears in 1965 and it still works. I have an el cheapo drill that “Infoworld”:http://infoworld.com gave me in 1999. Main problem is that the cordless ones die eventually. It has NiCads and they never last. Taking it apart, it of course…
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Car Repair and Service
Time once again for the regular car servicing. Some folks are finally letting you use Internet forms: * Acura of Bellevue Service Form. Or call 888-664-7249 if you are old fashioned. * “Barrier Volvo”:http://www.barriervolvo.com/en_US/frm_index.chtml?pageName=HomePage_1&noc=1&overrideUrl=f_HomePage_1.chtml. And again, there is 800-770-1348 for the old fashioned.
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Disk Usage with TreeSize
TreeSize Treesize Download. I’ve been trying to figure out why directories are so big. It is amazing that Windows doesn’t have a utility that shows how much a directory (vs. an individual file is using). There is a command line tool called diskuse that comes in the Resource Kit, but it unwieldy. Here’s a freeware…
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Polar Express 3D
IMAX Film Schedule. Way cool, the Polar Express in 3D is at the pacific science center. Hope there are still tickets!