I’m now looking at getting an InFocus X1 or X1A projector. They are very similar in price and functionality.. the A model has digital keystone adjustments but no high-quality de-interlacer. They both run about 800-900 bucks, and come with a 4000 hour lamp which should last a good few years for my usage pattern. I’ll […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.. […]
Sounds like a lot of black magic, but there’s a thread thats linked from the GWN.. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/23833 Some of the more promising ones look like: Mount /var/tmp/portage on a ext2 filesystem with async and noatime Don’t use ccache if you don’t need it Perhaps I can add a third: Use debian 😉 But in all […]
So apparently, that bug that seems to hit everyone, where when you type a URL that points to a directory and you’re missing the trailling slash, it fucks up, well the solution is apparently to set the ServerName directive in your httpd.conf to the actual thing that resolves to your server. Since a URL that […]
Great, gmai is down again. It’s amazing how much I’ve come to rely on that thing.. I almost run my local email client as an after thought.. but I’m perdiocially reminded of my hopeless dependence when it gets stuck at the “Loading….” screen. I should probably set something up to pull all the messages off […]
wow.. going back to my laptop keyboard is really interesting.. its a lot more difficult then I thought.. i am totally used to having the backspace key by my thumb now.. hmm this does not bode well if i want to eventually end up using a powerbook..