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Gigantic Resolution Image of the Earth

I came across this image from a link at Channel9, a popular Microsoft-hosted .NET programming forum. You can download it here, but be warned the picture measures 4096×4096 pixels.
Finally, an image large enough that I could scale it across my eight-foot-wide desktop without much pixelation. I cropped out a 4096×512px area over North America and [...]

How I Work

One of my computers at home is dedicated to productivity work (i.e. research, development, etc). Generally when I describe the computer to people, they gape in awe or exclaim how crazy I must be. Allow me to provide a brief synopsis for your Googling pleasure.
My main productivity machine started out as a pretty basic system. [...]

Optimizing your Multimon Configuration

Someone at Channel9, a developers’ forum I frequently visit, posted something I disagreed with regarding optimal Multimon Configurations. I had to provide a response, mirrored here for your reading pleasure.
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Have any of you tried recessing monitors? Basically, taking advantage of depth? It looks like everyone has their monitors right next to each other, so presumably, [...]

Spiffy new Hardware Upgrades

The site was down for two days. You may have noticed the errors. Y’see, what happened is that I got a package via FedEx. New stuff doesn’t combine well with my inborn need for instant gratification (Thank you, Internet Age). The package contained a motherboard (Asus M2V) and CPU (AMD Athalon 64 4200+ Dual-Core; what [...]

New Hardware Installed, More Coming

The server just got a new old secondary video card (ATI Radeon 9250). It’s not great, but it has eliminated the artifacting I was seeing in the old ATI Radeon 7500. Maybe the old one crapped out because it lost its heatsink a few years ago; hard to say. Regardless, that’s why the server went [...]

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