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My laptop is dying.
Dec 19, 2005 10:37PM
Well, it's actually running decently now, after a couple of days of not booting. I finally tracked the problem down to the motherboard...One of my (two) RAM slots is going bad, and the computer refuses to start if I have any RAM in that slot. The good news is that it seems to run fine if I don't have any memory in the first slot, the bad news is that I'm now down to 1GB of RAM. :-( After having 2GB in it before, I'm pretty spoiled (I specifically upgraded when I decided that the previous 1.5GB wasn't enough) and it's noticably slower. Oh well...I'm due for an upgrade next November anyway, so I may just have to bite the bullet and move it up a bit.
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Exciting things happening this week!
Dec 16, 2005 10:42PM
I got a couple of emails (albeit forwarded) from
Patrick Norton
! Ok, so he may not personally know who I am, and the fact that I'm excited may just confirm that I'm terminally nerdy...But I'm still giddy over it all. :-)
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Criminals aren't the only dumb ones in town.
Dec 10, 2005 06:08PM
Well, I gues this cop could be considered a criminal now (charges are being persued) so maybe this should just be another "Criminals aren't the brightest ever" post.
Article here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10378923/
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Wolfenstein 3D is back in my life.
Dec 01, 2005 10:48PM
My favorite game as a whipper-snapper was the great
Wolfenstein 3D
, the grand-pappy of all First-Person-Shooters. I was feeling a bit nostalgic for it recently, and decided to see if I could find it again. Lo and behold, not only is the shareware version I grew up with
still available for download
, it even runs on Windows XP. It's easier than I remember, but I guess that the AI in games like GoldenEye, Rainbow 6, and Half-Life 2 have honed my skills beyond the point that a game designed to run on an IBM 286 can handle. Regardless, it's still a fun blast from the past, and I've enjoyed being able to play it again after all these years.
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