November 27th, 2006
For a while now, I’ve been having problems using Bittorrent. After starting a large download, sometime during the night my internet connection would drop. I knew it was not a problem with my local machine because my router administration page was reporting it was disconnected from the WAN and I was not able to have it reconnect. It was reporting that it was not able to obtain an IP address from the ISP’s DHCP server.
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Posted in Computers, Networking | 2 Comments »
November 25th, 2006
This Black Friday shopping thing is just totally weird when you step back and take a look at it. I have a really hard time understanding the appeal of standing in line in the cold, hours on end to save a few bucks. However, over the last few years, the phenomenon has become more prominent online as well. While I refuse to fight the crowds and cold, I am much more willing to fight the cyber crowd for a deal.
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Posted in General, Programming | 2 Comments »
October 25th, 2006
Last week I picked up this Segate 320GB SATA hard drive for my MythTV box. I had a 120GB PATA drive I was replacing. Since SATA drives are treated as SCSI under linux, I knew it would be a little more involved than just copying the data and rebooting, so here’s what I did.
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October 11th, 2006
There are some interesting things out there that people are doing with the new Code Search feature that Google released last week. I couldn’t resist coming up with a couple interesting searches of my own.
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October 6th, 2006
Now updated for HP! Version 1.6 of the PC De-Crapifier brings you the removal of HP Crap!
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September 4th, 2006
Ok, now that it’s Labor Day weekend, it’s officially taken me all summer to get this post done. Better late than never.. here it is!
Over the memorial day weekend, a friend and I took a backpacking trip to the North Country and Manistee River trails near Mesick, Michigan. In this particular area, you can make a 21 loop out of these two trails. At first, this article may seem out of place in a tech-oriented blog, however as you’ll see there’s still a lot of geeky fun to be had with technology whilst in the woods.
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Posted in Backpacking, Camping, GPS | 11 Comments »
August 19th, 2006
A handful of new features and updates for version 1.5.
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August 7th, 2006
If you’re like me and most anyone else, you’re probably not that great at backing up your PC. Which means you’re probably even worse at backing up your data on your website. For once, I’m attempting to be proactive and get the stuff backed up on my hosting provider before something bad happens.
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July 25th, 2006
I usually avoid doing posts like this, but it’s interesting to see there’s some buzz in the blogosphere about this recent post on Dell’s weblog about the extra pre-installed bloatware.
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Posted in Computers | 7 Comments »
July 16th, 2006
In an effort to expand the De-Crapifier tool beyond just Dell machines, it’s getting a new name: The PC De-Crapifier. I’ve been contemplating doing this for some time now, however an email from a Dell trademark representative tilted the scales to do it now 
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Posted in General | 10 Comments »