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Month: August 2010

Ride Friday: On Pedestrians and Traffic

Recently, I found myself on my motorcycle enjoying a pleasant ride through Kings Beach, CA. Kings Beach, in case you are unaware, is a high traffic (for Tahoe) touristy area. It features 4 lanes of traffic, and a plethora of crosswalks, so that pedestrians do not have to walk very far to safely cross the…

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Motorcycles

Erase the configuration on Cisco 2600/3600 Routers

A bit back I decided that I should investigate following the Cisco Certification path.  The lower levels aren’t hard, but all things considered, you really need to have a “test lab” of equipment to play with.  So a few weeks ago I was offered a pair of old Cisco 2600 series routers on the cheap,…

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Cisco

Internet Explorer: “The requested lookup key was not found in any active activation context”

I recently installed a new Windows 2003 server and right off the bat started doing the Windows Updates.  Even with Service Pack 2 installed, this process takes a while. Normally it wouldn’t be a big deal, but after letting the updates run on automatic for a while… Internet Explorer blew up.

Windows

SanDisk U3 LaunchPad removal

I’ve covered this topic before, but things change in a couple years, so I thought it was time to do so again.  SanDisks’ “U3 LaunchPad” is stupid and evil.  It isn’t just some auto-launching application, it basically takes over your entire flash drive so you can’t actually use it how you’d like to. Don’t get…

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Hardware

Quick Review: Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.04

As is my usual habit, I got bored of my operating system and reformatted.  I decided to try out Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.04 Lucid Lynx (on my Eee PC 1000), since I hadn’t yet gotten to play with that.  I have previously used both 9.10 UNR and 9.04 UNR, as such, I have some basis…

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Linux

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