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What’s your computer’s name? It has to have a name; all computers are named something. UNIX and Linux folks (probably Mac OS X folk, too) call their computers by their “hostname”. Windows users just use a plain ol’ “name”. I’m curious about the names that people give to their computers.
Personally, the [...]

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Now this is a good idea, and it’s from local yokels! IMS in Waterloo has created the world’s first solution for hands-free and (more importantly, I believe) eyes-free email communication for when you’re driving. They call it the iLane. It works via Bluetooth with smart phones and Blackberry’s (another Waterloo invention).
The great [...]

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Dena and I gearing up to buy a house at some point. Throwing money away on rent has become unbearable. As such, I’ve been visualizing a place to call home. I prefer to be clutter-free. I looked at the ugly rack of CDs and DVDs that we have, that occupy way [...]

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In my last post, people commented that I should write about whatever I want. I’ve posted many despairing things in the past little bit - deservidely so given the situation - but I think I’ll try to get back to what I usually do…writing about whatever the hell strikes my fancy at any given [...]

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On Saturday, I received a call at around 8PM; Coach’s Corner had just wrapped up. When the voice on the other end explained that she was calling on behalf of TD Canada Trust and wanted to verify my account information, I thought it seemed out of the ordinary - especially on a Saturday night. [...]

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Happy birthday to my wife, Dena! She’s 29 and lookin’ fine
For her birthday gift, I bought her a 4GB iPod Mini; the silver one. It was a little hard to track down a Mini, since they’ve been replaced by the scratcherific Nano’s, but I managed to. I know she’s gonna [...]

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Being proactive is better than reactive, I suppose. With a warranty well in the past, the fan on my GeForce4 Ti 4400 was ready to pack ‘er in. To stem any “hot” issues, I picked up a GeForce FX 5700LE from Bestek; just up the street from Dena’s office. For whatever reason, [...]

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It’s ever so true…bad RAM does bad things. A couple of weeks ago, my computer blue-screened with this error while NSW2005 was running a scheduled LiveUpdate. I dind’t think much of it. Then last week my computer blue-screened while booting with this error. The second parameter on that blue screen was [...]

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My new motherboard is back! I have a computer again! But no more soundcard. My Audigy gave up the ghost. It appears to be inflicted by a bug that’s common to the Audigy and Live! line of cards. I hadn’t heard of it until now, but if you Google “Audigy” [...]

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The computer is up and running again

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Status update:
My new 550W power supply is in. The computer is no longer is pieces and I’ve put it all back together. Now I’m just waiting on fancy shmancy silver-braided rounded IDE cables from Tiger Direct.

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Status update:
Dena made it back to Kitchener safe and sound. Pearson was busy that morning that she left. She was disappointed to come back to find that I had cut my hair
My new motherboard is in. My new power supply isn’t yet. The computer is disassembled. Waiting.
In six [...]

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