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Had to make the switch

Brent — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:42:26 +0000

I just had to get out from Windstream’s high latency connection over to Time Warner’s. The latter is not tied down to the distance to the CO. At first the connection went south, but after a line replacement from the house to the pole everything is going well. Latency to Garithos (Los Angeles) is between 100 and 200 and not 500-1000ms.

Time Warner does not run their own newsserver, so I’ll have to get one if I want. It has been nice to both play wow, both watch a movie and have Netflix running on the Wii at the same time. Also got their really too big digital cable box. Nice having favorite programs in HD. Need to explore the tv listings more for programs I want to see.

Long time

Brent — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:15:31 +0000

It has been a really long time since writing here in my blog. I never really figured out what I want to say after all of these months. Due to a closing of an OfficeMax nearby I have a new laptop. Naturally I looked for tweaks since this is not the fastest out there, but for $267 with tax who can complain. What I did find was there are few recent notebook tweak articles out there. Many are dated on ’03/’04 with the most recent being around 2007. I would think with netbooks on the scene and the general popularity of laptops there would be more tweaking articles.

So I am thinking of collected a set of general recommendations and notebook specific tweaks. I have to go now, so more on this later. kbc

Short Stuff

Brent — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:48:46 +0000

Just a note to remind myself to write to this thing more often. Firstly I have a new PC which has been pretty easy to set up and adjust so far. Core 2 Quad, P45 motherboard, 4 gigs of ram. Runs virtualized OSes well: Ubuntu and Windows XP so far. Will try to install Mac OS X 10.5.6 soon.

Reached level 80 with my gnome warlock on World of Warcraft. Have not run a large number of heroics yet.

House is still a bit of a mess after household sicknesses and such. While all of us here could be really anal about keeping everything, we do want to relax.

Here’s a good shot of my son Liam who just turned one a short while ago.

Back to work

Brent — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:27:10 +0000

I’m back to work after my last vacation of the year. After August 21st of next year I’ll get an additional week of vacation. A long stretch from four weeks (13 years) and five weeks (20 years). Getting back to work was not really a problem, busy, but nothing intense.

Got both Sims 2 and Battlefield 2 to load using Daemon Tools and emulated drives. I have both originals, but I think Vista does not like SafeDisc DRM. I own the games damn it, what more do you want. Odd that I can’t find any way to get it working otherwise.

Just got the new Geforce driver with PhyX support. Wonder if it works on the G80 GPU.

Back up to speed

Brent — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:36:04 +0000

Windstream has fixed the connection and my life can go back to normal. What, a party to prepare for?

Is this thing on?

Brent — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:07:35 +0000

Man I hope people don’t expect me to add content here. Firstly I’ll get my feeds from flickr and twitter going, then perhaps content for this blog only.