Recently, a couple of friends have tapped me (or did I volunteer?) to spec out parts for a new gaming rig. The first friend was looking in the $500-600 range in order to get his League of Legends on, the second wants to replace his aging PC before the WoW expansions drops in a week … Continue reading “Gaming System Builds (~$500 and ~$1000)”
Interesting to see the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children denounce outright the whole “stranger-danger” thing…. http://www.missingkids.com/en_US/publications/PDF10A.pdf
I seem to occasionally find myself sparring with Ubuntu on getting VNC server configured correctly. I use the default (RealVNC) vncserver package included with Ubuntu. There are two main points of configuration I seem to rediscover each time: Make sure vncserver is looking in the right place for configuration For my setup, the “right” place … Continue reading “Ubuntu and VNC”
This does not strike me as specific only to this router, but has to do with a configuration setting around 20MHz vs. 40MHz channel bandwidth. I picked up an Asus RT-AC68R a while back and it’s been fantastic. One bit of behavior I wasn’t crazy about was the periodic – and somewhat frequent – dropping … Continue reading “Asus RT-AC68R Periodically Drops Wireless (2.4GHz) Connection”
Not as amusing as an emotionally-fueled blog post with misguided assertions and misrepresentations, but interesting, nonetheless; I like dietary advice like I like my wine: dry. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29616418 It comes back to variety and moderation. Statements indicating unequivocally that food or ingredient X is “bad for you,” advocating for complete elimination with no mention of dosage … Continue reading “BBC Questions the Harm of Fat In One’s Diet”
Was looking into this for a client, and I’ve come to the following conclusion based on various reading across the ‘tubes: How cookies are handled between browser instances varies between web browsers. Why do we care? Well various web applications are going to get wonky if you try opening multiple instances of them when those … Continue reading “Web Browser Cookies Between Sessions (IE, Firefox, Chrome)”
I often hear the expression (I can only imagine you do, too): “I just haven’t had the time.” I contemplate how we might better serve one another – and ourselves – by replacing in our vernacular the words “had the time” with “made the time.” In all but the most unusual of circumstances, we ultimately … Continue reading “Just Haven’t Had the Time”
It happens all the time, all around us, in public bathrooms around the world: people are unwittingly placed in uncomfortable situations which, in all likelihood, were entirely avoidable. Broadly speaking, my goal with this post is to provide you the tools with which to avoid awkwardness between you and anyone else utilizing the same facility.* … Continue reading “Guide to Bathroom (Occupancy) Etiquette”
Was out tonight, looking around, and realizing how uncool I am (specifically from a fashion standpoint, I suppose). While comments are enabled in all of my posts, I guess this was not exactly meant as an opportunity for everyone to pile on, but whatever. The top five reasons I came up with off the top … Continue reading “Uncool”
An excerpt from an article in the May 2009 edition of Discover magazine: “Pinar Letzkus, a vision researcher at Australian National University, rewarded bees with sugar whenever they extended their tongue at the sight of a yellow rectangle on a computer screen. He then fashioned tiny eye patches and put them on a new set … Continue reading “The More You Know”