Archive for January, 2008

Ram prices are at an all time low!

Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Posted in Tips | No Comments »

Yesterday I decided to upgrade to 4gb of ram because I was told by my local favorite computer shop (CompuTrak System) that ram prices were at an all time low (DDR2 only). He was sure right. Each 2gb stick cost ...

Mapped drive not offering to remember password

Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Posted in Technical Issues | No Comments »

Problem: I have a few new Windows XP installs, and they aren't offering to remember the password for my mapped network drives.

The best wallpaper site ever

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in Customization | No Comments »

InterfaceLIFT is the best wallpaper site ever, period. They have strict standards on the quality of wallpaper submissions they receive, which includes no digital camera artifacts (this means the picture has to be taken with a digital SLR I think), ...

Post-rock: The genre no one knows about

Monday, January 14th, 2008 Posted in Music, Tips | No Comments »

Post-rock is a genre of music that goes along with a certain philosophy, and that is if you take out the singer, it forces the band to play better music. In my personal opinion I think almost every singer ...

Backup solution with WinRAR and a batch file

Sunday, January 13th, 2008 Posted in Tricks | 1 Comment »

I wanted to make the perfect manual backup solution in a batch file, so here's the code. Just make a file called backup.bat and paste this text into it. You might have to change a few of the file ...

Can’t connect at 1000mbps, only 100mbps

Friday, January 11th, 2008 Posted in Technical Issues | No Comments »

Problem: Had a computer with a nice, new on-board Intel NIC. It would only connect at 100mbps. I even put another Intel network card in that was working at 1000mbps on another computer and it still wouldn't work. The internet ...