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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.
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…
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…
Today see’s the completion of the first full week I’ve had to commute into the “office”. The “office” being a group I’m consulting for in San Francisco (rather than my normal Tahoe). It has been an interesting experience and taken a bit of getting used to, after all, I’ve never had to do a serious…
Yesterday, I saw an article, titled The Fermi Paradox, Phase Changes and Intergalactic Colonisation, come across the wire that was about the (You guessed it) Fermi Paradox. For those that don’t know, the Fermi Paradox (originally asked by Enrico Fermi in 1950) is the question that if Extraterrestrial life should be so common, why don’t…
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We’re basically dead to the world today. Starcraft 2 is out today. Even though some of Blizzards changes make me very angry, I’m going to give them a shot. They’ve done well in the past, and I feel they should get one more shot. Of course if their DRM system is a problem, or the…