Don’t get a Hauppage WinTV PVR 150 to play PS2 or any console game on your PC. The latency is way too high Don’t get the MCE version of the above if you don’t plan to use it on a Windows MCE box.. it doesn’t contain the correct MPEG decoder to let you use the […]
Every child remembers their parents telling them to lay off the snacks so that they don’t spoil dinner.. and yet many dieting pages refer to the strategy of eating 5-6 smaller meals a day. Not that eating less sugary snacks is a bad thing, but the childhood conditioning of saving ones stomach for a large […]
Damn, this thing is super slow. I’m writing from it right now. Although the X server seems to be ok, doing a simple “yum update kernel” is super duper slow. I guess this 4G/4G patch thing really does make a huge difference.. and this seems to be confirmed both in the VMware forums as well […]
For someone like me who can’t decide between Fedora, Debian, Gentoo, FreeBSD, and so on and so forth, VMware is really a dream come true. I didn’t actually get around to really trying it out until now, and it is just amazing how I can have all of these distros installed side by side, running […]
So I’ve been taking this Milk Thistle supplement which I got at Whole foods (for a mere 4 dollars) for about a week now. It’s supposed to be good for your liver, but what I have really noticed is that it seems to really help with reducing hang-over effects as well. I had at least […]
What the heck is up with their website? A few months ago, there was this mysterious offer that would only show up if I accessed the site from work. It claimed that a special San Francisco and LA rate was available to new DSL subscribers.. the rates were significantly less than the current one-link rates.. […]
Now up to 1GB total, which means I can run a 256MB vm, and still have more physical memory available than before. Yippee.
Got a lot of new goodies: Panasonic Monitor 10R headphones: The headband is really tight and they’re not broken in yet, but they do sound pretty good. I really need some better output than the one that comes out of my dell workstation at work though. That’s to be remedied later Kinesis Maxim ergo keyboard: […]