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AT&T DSL WI Outage (or “The System is Down, Yo”)

Posted in July 31st, 2008
Published in General

Besides being awesome in general, my AT&T wireless card has become incredibly helpful this evening/morning.
Around midnight CST, I was remoting into work to do some server maintenance. Suddenly the screen locked up and my music stream stopped. The little globe icon disappeared from the network icon. I may not be some crazy IT guy, but [...]

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nVidia GPU Update

Posted in July 28th, 2008
Published in General

Recently nVidia announced that there was a heat issue with their G84 and G86 model graphics cards (8 series video cards on laptops). Initially we were told that it was an “HP only” problem, but now Dell is releasing BIOS updates to several laptops with that card, saying that the BIOS update “updates nVidia BIOS.”
Basically [...]

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Futurama III

Posted in July 27th, 2008
Published in General

More Futurama?!
If you haven’t picked up on it by now, I’m a pretty big Futurama fan (of the “post-OTA” generation). Yes, I’ve seen all the shows, and I’ve seen the two movies so far.
Fortunately there’s word out that the third (of the 4 rumored movies) installment of the straight-to-DVD Futurama’s has been announced. “Futurama: Bender’s [...]

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When a mommy and a daddy…

Posted in July 4th, 2008
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..love each other very much…
Daddy should be aware of KB946676. Otherwise everyone will laugh at him because his data is lost!
~Jaker

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