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Month: March 2008

Car Shopping – Day 2 – Done

Well, I had grand plans to go car shopping again today. I was planning to go test drive a Ford Focus, Acura TSX, Toyota Prius and then the Honda Civic Hybrid (again). Well, it didn’t work out quite as I planned. I started out at the Toyota dealership, and that’s basically as far as I…

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Vehicles

Car Shopping – Day 1

At the current moment, I drive a 2005 Subaru Impreza WRX (Manual). Overall I like the car, there are a few annoyances but over all it has served me well. I only leased the Scooby, and its lease is up in just about 3 months. That being said, I’ve been doing research on new vehicles….

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Vehicles

Root Canals – Day 8

Well I have to say that the first few days my teeth were rather tender. Just a push with my tongue in the right spots and I felt it for sure. It wasn’t bad, towards the end of the first few days my jaw ached a bit — but nothing major. As of today I’m…

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Personal

MKV’s & Ubuntu dont mix

So the first major problem I’ve found is that I can’t get MKV’s to run. Well, more correctly the MKV (high def) video files stutter very badly. I’ve google’d around and I can only find one real “answer” and that is that the CPU isn’t fast enough. This is crap of course because MKV’s played…

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Linux

When QA Fails… Miserably

At the office we use Symantec anti-virus. Recently we upgraded to Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 which includes Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Proactive Threat Protection and lastly… Network Threat Protection. The reason why I single out that last component is because it contains MASSIVE amounts of failure — or lack of QA work. This last week I finally…

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Tech

World Of Warcraft Under Linux

One of the first things I did after getting Ubuntu running was to see if I could get and install World Of Warcraft using Cedega. Yes, I could have used Wine (Which I do have installed) but it only has a bronze rating and frankly I wanted to see if it would run WELL under…

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Linux

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