my smartphone predictions for 2010

my guesses for 2010: apple will end its exclusivity contract with at&t (if not then there will be further android growth) blackberry marketshare will drop and keep dropping (good) windows mobile will start to disappear (hardware vendors will drop it, end user demand is low as well) webos will keep palm afloat, but not for […]

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nautilus extensions, kompozer

a feature that i personally find useful in modern versions of windows explorer is the option (in list view) to list additional mp3 info. there’s really only one column that interests me: bitrate. for my weird auditing purposes i like to make sure that my music collection is at least 128kps minimum, preferably 192kpbs. only […]

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dosbox basics

alt-enter – toggle full-screen alt-pause – pause emulation ctrl-f5 – screenshot ctrl-f10 – toggle mouse focus ctrl-f11 – slow down emulation ctrl-f12 – speed up emulation ems=false – disable ems

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debian slug (still the best thing ever)

as of late i’ve been more focused on using $ for eating food rather than buying playthings. ahh i miss the days when i had surplus income to buy things to experiment with every few months. i suppose in a way it’s a good thing…because now i focus on getting items that i need (or […]

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linux nvidia drivers

the pc i run opensuse on is approx. 10 years old. i mostly use it as a file server and a few other functions. not so much as a desktop…but i decided to install nvidia drivers just to try out desktop effects. just because. i installed nvidia drivers probably about 5 years ago and remember […]

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beer (in a glass)

one million years ago when i first drank beer. it was in cans..i then graduated to mostly only wanting it in bottles. i have mixed feelings about draft beer. sometimes it’s amazingly fresh and crisp tasting. other times it’s all watery and cheap and way worse than drinking it from a bottle. i think that […]

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netbooks

i don’t have much to do with netbooks. i think it’s a novel idea, just too expensive at the moment. currently..what are they like $300? throw on another $350 and you can get yourself a super laptop. if they end up getting in the $100ish range i may get one someday. i’d like one with […]

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sharepoint database logs

our sharepoint database logs were some crazy 80GB in size. which made no sense. this article pointed us in the right direction: http://geekswithblogs.net/RogueCoder/archive/2008/06/03/122588.aspx evidently this is what happens when the databases have “full recovery mode” enabled.

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OSS of the moment: wincdemu

wincdemu acts as a virtual optical drive that allows you to mount disc images. what’s nice about that is that you don’t need to actually burn a cd/dvd to either view the contents or run the program on the disc. i think most people use disc mounters to play games (including myself), though i’ve used […]

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uccx prompt recorder

we’ve had an existing prompt recorder script that uses one set of credentials to alter every prompt. that solution works great when just one person manages every prompt and they make themselves forever available. however, now we’re starting to absorb more departments into UCCX and that means more prompts and more people likely to want […]

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