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    iMac Display Freeze

    by  • 20-Apr-2010 • Life, Technology • 2 Comments

    I have a 2006 iMac 20″ Core Duo with the ATI Radeon X1600 GPU. Like so many others, my GPU has started crashing when it gets warm and the problem is becoming progressively worse. The machine is now basically unusable which is a real shame because other than the display freezing, it’s still a perfectly [...]

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    Difference between DivX and Xvid?

    by  • 9-Dec-2008 • Technology • 3 Comments

    First, an example, what do these things have in common? Microsoft in Redmond, WA Apple in Cupertino, CA LAME, the open source project on SourceForge Answer: all of them offer a MP3 audio encoder. Likewise… DivX Inc. in San Diego, CA Xvid Solutions in Hof, Germany XviD, the open source project on SourceForge All of [...]

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    You Can’t Resell That CD

    by  • 8-Oct-2007 • Life, Technology • 5 Comments

    The RIAA won a $222,000 lawsuit against an individual woman in Minnesota who was using a peer-to-peer network. As absurd as that sounds, it didn’t alarm me much until I read more of the details. Apparently, the woman wasn’t found guilty of downloading copyright music. She was guilt of making copyright music available for download.

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    Alternatives to Apple iPhone

    by  • 12-Jan-2007 • Life, Technology • 0 Comments

    If you were excited by the iPhone announcement, you may have missed photos of the LG wide-screen smartphone,LG KE850 The Sony w880 also looks promising. The OpenMoko FIC Neo1973 Smartphone was announced several months ago and will be available in February, 2007. As I’ve pointed out in previous postings, I’m not a big fan of [...]

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    Grand Unified Web Tools

    by  • 18-May-2006 • Software, Technology • 0 Comments

    Tools, Tools (Ad Nausium) [sic.] “There are problems with the many-tools-hacked-together approach that adds an odd balance to it.” Bruce Alderson and I have a common vision. I wish that there was a stable platform for PHP applications that provided all the common stuff like database abstraction, user login and account management. I just want [...]

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