HDTV, DLP LED TV’s, 32 Sats in GPS, Benefits of the Space Program, Windows Live Writer

Been getting over one of the worse flu’s I’ve ever had, still recovering but here’s a few blog entries to read. HDTV, DLP LED TV’s An engineer from one of our local tv stations (WWNY) has been posting a small blog about their station’s transition to HDTV, a good little…

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RIP My Friend Ernie

I lost an old friend this week, and today I just came back from a very large memorial service for my friend. All three of the sitting rooms in the funeral home were filled and more chairs had to be brought in. Ernie was one of my oldest friends in…

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Miscellaneous, Acer Drivers Extracting, WGA, Flock Blog Editor, Firefox Beta, Gimp, Jefferson County Wiki, Snow and the “Billy Bob Contractor”

Miscellaneous Ummmm! We decided it was time to break out the home-made applesauce from last summer! Nothing quite like it. A little tweaking on the blog template. I’ve got it to expand to fill your browser screen, no matter what size it is – though if you’re using 800X600 it…

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Blog Format Changes, More Acer 5520-5334 XP Drivers, Flock, Freecyle Addon, Netscape, The Artwork of David Edwards, Shout-Out/Get-Well To Jon

My Blog (This blog entry below is no longer relevant) I’ve messed with the table of contents a bit, you may or may not notice.  Well, a lot. I liked having them off on the right column but over time there have gotten to be way too many. I experimented a…

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Acer XP Drivers, HD Confusion, Laziness – Contactify

Acer XP Drivers Wow, a lot of feedback from people wanting to switch from Vista to XP on this laptop, and similar models. I guess that tells you something. Here’s a few things to help you in case you’re not dual-booting with Vista and need your computer’s specs (and/or you…

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XP vs. Vista Again, XP Drivers, Jefferson County Wiki, Cellphone Scams, Strange Lost Notes and Numbers!

Been awhile since I’ve posted anything here. Winter’s not exactly exciting in the “new stuff” department. XP vs. Vista Again, XP Drivers on Newer ‘Vista’ Computers In my home office when faced with the choice between Vista and XP; despite all efforts to switch over or at least give Vista…

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Disable ‘UAC is off’ Security Center Reminder II – doesn’t work, Opinions and Advice II, Remote & Voice-Activated Camera Picture Taking

Disable ‘UAC is off’ Security Center Reminder II – doesn’t work! A couple of people e-mailed me after my last entry, saying “Hey, your hack for turning off the Security Center reminder for a disabled UAC didn’t work.” Uhm, yea, sorry – for me it worked after one reset but…

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Successfully Debricked WT54G V5, Drilling Limestone and Annoying Know-It-Alls, Turning off UAC Notification in Vista Windows Security Center

What?! You say, two blog entries in two days? Successfully Debricked WT54G V5 Well, a few hours was all it took… Hours better spent making money or working on finishing our house or something. Basically, this was the second WT54G router I got for our long-distance broadband Internet experiment. Version…

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Tweaking Vista, TV Converter Box Program, Bricked WT54G, Minifox for Firefox

Tweaking Vista Vista. Yea, you’ve all heard of the problems or more than likely ran into them yourself if you got it on a new computer system or installed it. I’ve been helping people with it, usually to get rid of it in most cases or live with it and…

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Dual Monitor Set Up, 19 inch CRT versus LCD, Book Cataloging

Dual Monitor Set Up I’ve been wanting to try a dual monitor or multiple monitor set up for myself for quite some time, and finally got the chance to on my home system. All I gotta say is – if you work with graphics, programming, webpages, etc or you’re just…

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