Hardware

Remember when I said I was having a hardware issue where occasionally both screens connected to one of my video cards spontaneously stopped responding, thus freezing the system?
Vista is able to recover from this occuring; my guess is they do the obvious thing and cycle the card. Why didn’t they have this kind of error [...]

I bought a headset lamp a few days ago while window-shopping at CompUSA. This thing was a real rip-off.
As advertised, it’s a light you put on your head. It comes with these basic parts:
- Headband
- LED Lights
- Dimmer switch (Built better than the rest of the product)
- Cheap Plastic Switch (Cheap, plastic)
It does what it [...]

I just bought a USB Missile Launcher from ThinkGeek. Think of it as a combination of poor construction and poor software. So, in my typically over-simplified manner, here’s my one-minute overview review:
Pros:
1. Shoots missiles
2. Laser guidance
3. USB connection provides computer control
4. Battery power provides use on laptops - Though you may as well use a [...]

So, the question of the day is how to solve a routing problem. Hopefully some of my secret blog readers are CCNA’s who don’t mind working with Linksys and Belkin hardware. Yes, I know, Linksys embarasses Cisco. Moving on…
Comcast’s continued problems have caused me to get a DSL connection as a backup. However, I want [...]

Some of you will recall the plans to upgrade to Dual Broadband as brought on by the Year-Long Saga. Qwest delivered their modem as promised, and it’s up and running.
Initially, the plan was to set up a load balancer to pipe outgoing connections to whichever outbound network had the most bandwidth available at the time. [...]

Some of you will recall my previous entry regarding my enrollment in the Windows Vista SP1 Beta. The plan was to download the first available image, install three of the same video card (to acheive what Microsoft calls a “Homogenous Multi-Adapter Configuration” - That is, all three cards on the same driver), and use it [...]

Having given up on Comcast ever concluding the Year-Long Saga, I ordered Qwest DSL to be installed this Friday. Their prices are higher and their speeds lower, but they’ll function as a stopgap until either Comcast fixes their issues, Verizon offers FIOS in Colorado, or I move.
One of my spare systems will function as a [...]

There are few things in life that annoy me more than the Catch-22. So often in life, we get software we have major problems with; but which we cannot remove.
Allow me to provide an example. I recently upgraded my webcam to a Logitech QuickCam Orbit MP. Bad product naming schemes aside, this peripheral came with [...]

Cerebrus, my main productivity machine, has been freezing at random once or so a day lately. J had a similar issue with his (identical) Asus motherboard, so I guess I’m just kinda hoping the fault lies in the motherboard. So I’m buying a new one.
The EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 should do the trick. Its LGA775 socket will [...]

Many of you have been around for the Chronicles of Comcast. This is a synopsis for those of you who don’t want to bother with reading through each post in order.
The problem started sometime in December of 2006, around the time that Comcast bought Adelphia. I noticed my connection speed immediately increased, but the connection [...]