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MS Windows Long Horn, available at CompUSA?
I was recently strolling through CompUSA (I was intending to ogle one of those new G5 iMacs, but they didn’t have any in stock) in the laptop department and a screen saver caught my eye. It said something about Windows Long Horn. Hmm, since that’s not supposed to be out for years, I almost laughed…
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hey, that doesn’t suck!
my keyboard on my pc at home outlived its usefulness (a number of stuck keys, driving me nuts) so I decided it was time for a new one. I found this one for a steal of a deal at amazon: Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard I like the ms ‘natural’ keyboards and the price is right.…
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photostamps? bah!
grrr. I was expecting some cool photostamps for my wedding thank-you’s in the mail today. When they didn’t arrive I decided to check my order status. Hmm, Order Cancelled, Uploaded Content Rejected! What the? How could a picture of Sandy and me (in our wedding finery, none-the-less) be objectionable? Turns out the fine folks at…
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Windows XP sp2 is here…
If you’ve been getting xp auto updates, it will start to download itself automagically in the background. Supposedly, this is supposed to not interfere with general operations, but it ground my desktop here to a halt during the process. The download is 75Mb to 225Mb depending how up to update your machine is already (takes…
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Doom 3 Speed Up
After trying Doom 3 on my new Dell, with an almost twice as fast CPU (2.8Ghz), 25% more memory (1Gb), and a fresh Windows XP install, I was pretty disappointed with the performance. It was playable, unlike my old PC, 1.5Ghz and 768Mb of RAM, but still very choppy at the lowest resolution and graphics…
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Operation: Morning Run, Day 2
Some people think running 5 miles is crazy. Some people may think that running 5 miles before work is crazy. Some people thinking running 5 miles before 6 AM is crazy. Seems just right to me. Nothing too eventful in this morning’s run. Even though it was pretty cool (about 65) it was very humid;…