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Burning It Up

« 9 April 2009 | 6:07 | Geeky, General, Photos | 1 Comment »
I awoke to a rampant beeping noise from my living room. My computer had crashed and rebooted, and the video card was complaining of me not having connected the extra power cable to it. Since I had not fiddled with the cables, I was confused. My first thought was a bad power supply (it just [...]


Camera Hacking

« 6 June 2008 | 1:02 | Geeky, General, Photos | No Comments »
I guess it was about a year ago that I got a new digital camera (a Canon S5IS). Probably before I even had the thing in my hands, I learned of the CHDK hack to add features to the camera’s interface. Unfortunately, the S5IS was brand-spanking-new at the time and was unsupported. The only way [...]


The Bait and Switch

« 3 April 2008 | 16:57 | Consumer Advocacy, Geeky, General, Ranting | 3 Comments »
On December 31, 2007 the Insight Communications of Bloomington, IN was acquired by the Comcast Corporation. Having been a customer of Insight, I was continually delighted by the competition-beating speed of the High-Speed Internet service. The standard Insight speed was 10mbit/1mbit (down/up), but the Comcast is slightly slower with 8mbit/768kbit (down/up). The mailer that was [...]


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