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Archive for December, 2006

ScriptLogic Corporation Support scares me…

by @ Thursday, December 28th, 2006. Filed under tech

There is a company called ScriptLogic which makes various tools including various AD Management and Security tools. I have never really looked into them as they have nothing that calls to me that I couldn’t just put together myself or already have put together for myself. In a recent set of newsgroup posts though a […]

Four Tuners in Media Center – Woo hooooo!

by @ Wednesday, December 27th, 2006. Filed under general

While I completely failed in getting the Dual Tuner Hauppage card to work previously, adding some additional single tuner Hauppage cards worked beautifully and after a little registry hacking as per Green Button and Peter Rosser (MSFT) and a reboot I have 4 tuners up and running seemingly perfectly. Next step, load up Vista Ultimate […]

Google Picasa

by @ Wednesday, December 27th, 2006. Filed under tech

Just wanted to follow up on Google Picasa. I used it heavily over Christmas weekend to search through my images to find various pics to put together on little creative things I was making (cards, coupons, etc). I have some 40,000 plus images on my machine, Picasa was rocket fast. The one complaint was that […]

For the Marvel comic fans…

by @ Wednesday, December 27th, 2006. Filed under general

Two exciting Marvel characters are coming to the big screen this coming year.   Johnny “Ghost Rider” Blaze (Nicolas Cage) in the movie about Ghost Rider Trailer – http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/ghostrider/hd/   and   Norrin “Silver Surfer” Radd (Doug Jones) in the new Fantastic Four Movie Trailer – http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/fantasticfourris… Rating 3.00 out of 5

Top Science Magazine’s Breakthroughs of 2006

by @ Monday, December 25th, 2006. Filed under general

Top 10 Science magazine`s breakthroughs of 2006: The Poincare Conjecture: Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman apparently solved the venerable mathematical problem. Neanderthal DNA: Researchers sequenced more than one million bases of nuclear DNA from a Neanderthal. Shrinking Ice: Discovery that the world`s two great ice sheets were losing water at an accelerating pace. 375-million-year-old fish: filling […]

WinImage now supports VHD’s

by @ Saturday, December 23rd, 2006. Filed under tech

http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm Since Microsoft opened the format for the VHD, WinImage (Shareware) now supports it. Rating 3.00 out of 5

Where exactly…

by @ Friday, December 22nd, 2006. Filed under general

…did I place my ass at? Swamped Oh yeah, it is attached, no chance at losing that. Good thing too, I have just been so swamped with stuff. I am hoping to play a little catch up over the holidays here. No doubt I will fail but I will certainly give it an effort. You […]

No FEMA needed here…

by @ Friday, December 22nd, 2006. Filed under general

This was recently sent to me (email #890 out of about 1200 in my inbox) but I don’t know how accurate it is. I tried to verify it and saw comments but nothing firm. I could see it happening, Most folks in Michigan don’t go looking for government help when bad things happen. There are […]

Know of any good free Windows Admin tools?

by @ Friday, December 22nd, 2006. Filed under general

Well at least one person recommended joeware tools when Redmond Magazine asked that question.   http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp?editorialsid=654   🙂 Rating 3.00 out of 5

Embrace your inner geek…

by @ Tuesday, December 19th, 2006. Filed under tech

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8M3IJ003.htm Anyone with an Internet connection will soon be able to get three-dimensional maps of the moon, or real-time tracking of the space shuttle, after NASA agreed Monday to give more of its imagery and information to Google Inc. … Rating 3.00 out of 5

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