2007 December

I see alot of incoming search queries where people are looking for whether certain things should be loading with their copy of Windows Vista. Thus, allow me to provide you with a complete list.
You may be looking in the “Startup” tab of MSCONFIG. This is an excellent resource (For the uninitiated, click Start > [...]

I’ve been playing with my new Kentsfield Q6600 Quad-Core CPU, seeing what kind of benefit it would provide in the real world. So I’ve been doing the same stuff I always do in the real world, but paying closer attention to performance. Here are the results of my very unscientific tests.
The first thing I [...]

CoD4 is a great relief from the first three in the series. First of all, it actually takes place in modern day, with modern weaponry and international conflicts. Needless to say, the graphics are significantly improved as well.
This review will be split into these sections:
Storyline
Gameplay
Graphics
Performance
Storyline:
The story opens with a scene in which you must land [...]

As you can hopefully see, I purchased a new Quad-Core CPU today and the installation went smoothly. Sure, 2.4GHz isn’t exactly fast, but four of them are.
The CPU features dual 128KB L1 caches and dual 4MB L2 caches and twice as many cores as its predecessor. Additionally, it runs on a shiny-new 65nm process. [...]

My 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS refused to start today as I tried to pull away from a gas pump. It’s had problems dying occasionally, but always started right back up again until now.
I managed to coaerse the driver of the pickup at the next pump to give me a jump start, and drove straight to [...]

A while ago, I posted an Entry regarding Programatically Downloading a File from a Remote Location to User Through a Webserver in VB.NET. Today I saw an incoming click from a post on a popular ASP.NET development forum referencing it under the simple title “Download.
A user with over 10,000 forum points named Kaushalparik27 was nice enough [...]

J has been learning some of the newer Microsoft technologies, such as XAML. Part of his ongoing endeavors is a writing Craigslist parser and viewer. Without having to go through the website, he found someone in town who was selling server racks at 10-20% of their retail price.
The seller’s story is that his workplace [...]

I was troubleshooting a bug for the past couple days in which all session data was being lost upon postback. At first, it appeared that certain objects were being reset or nulled upon specific events being raised. Then, some preusal of my debug logs showed that the User was being reinitialized between every click. My [...]

So, those studded snow tires are starting to look really nice. It took me an hour to traverse a distance that normally takes 15-20 minutes. The steep hill on Garden of the Gods, west of Union, normally takes me 30-45 seconds; I spent 15 minutes on that hill alone. Ambient traffic speed was so slow, [...]

It snowed on Friday night and stayed through the weekend, so I guess Winter is finally here. Normally I don’t like Winter just because of the temperature, snow and ice; but this year I have a lightweight car with bald tires…
… So Friday I’m getting studded snow tires. That won’t solve my heating problem, but [...]