These are just as-is statements or information that I like to keep around for reference.
I recently happen to come across a video card that had problems with 3D rendering. I usually would just throw out the video card and get a new one, but when the video card is a Nvidia 8800 GTX I just couldn’t throw away the card no matter how bad it was broken. Luckily...
Read more →I ran across a good article on how to scale your processor in Ubuntu. For me this was turned on by default and it really helped my battery life on my laptop and now it is nice to know how to configure it. Here is the link to the full page. I am going...
Read more →I use Pidgin for my chat client and I also use Gtalk. Usually there is no problem with this but I use Gtalk for my old Gmail account and also for my new email address for this website hosted by Google. I started having a problem connecting to my Gtalk account @1n73r.net. The problem...
Read more →I posted this on my work’s wiki but I wanted to post it here so I can remember how to do it for later. If you have your external display plugged into your laptop push Win+X to bring up the Windows Mobility Center. Then click on the Connect display button. This will bring up...
Read more →It has been fun over the past few years to see stories that have been pulled from websites for various reasons. The really fun part is the fact that using RSS feeds to read stories instead of going to the website allows me to see even the stories that were taken down. The latest...
Read more →I use remote assistance on a almost daily basis at my work. It is a built in tool in Windows that allows me to remotely control a users computer without kicking them off of the machine (like remote desktop does). One thing it did not do was let me take control if the user...
Read more →Open up the registry and browse to: HKEY_USERS.DefaultControl PanelDesktop edit the Wallpaper key to point to where ever you have your wallpaper stored (eg. c:windowswallpaper.bmp). The file needs to be a .bmp to show up but that is all you should need to do. After a restart the background will show up behind the...
Read more →I never liked that Compiz-fusion didn’t have a transparent menu setting by default. Luckily people on the internet are smart. Well, some of them. Ryan Paul (I have no idea who he is) posted a article on how to add the transparency I was looking for. In order to set up menu transparency, users...
Read more →I watched the Apple keynote yesterday and I was not impressed. That is not the point of this post though. I wanted to do my own tests on browsers and see for myself which would be the fastest (since Steve claimed Safari was the fastest). I tested Opera 9.21, Safari 3.0, Internet Explorer 7,...
Read more →So at my work we have had problems with our HP laptops. We have recently switched from IBM laptops to HP laptops and have had nothing but problems with our newest model the nc8430. When we first started to deploy these laptops we would get what was known as the “svchost” problem. The customer...
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