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At the same time that I bought the Garmin, I grabbed a TomTom XL 330S as well. It’s funny, you’d think one would completely win over the other. It just doesn’t work that way though. They’ve each got pros and cons which I’ll be getting to in another post. In any case, a site has [...]

I recently bought a Garmin Nüvi 255W GPS. It’s a pretty impressive unit – it almost reminds me of a Mac in it’s ease of use. I’ve already used it a bit, and plan to do some testing with it over the next few days. I’ll sum things up with a few pros and cons:

A small shocker using Maya on a Quad-Core Intel processor was that CPU usage by default was about 50%. Yes that’s right FIFTY PERCENT. It looked similar to this: This was a little disappointing – Maya 2009 basically caused another dual-core machine to grind to a halt, and was only using about half the potential [...]

I’ve been going through phpmyadmin doing a little database optimization throughout my sites. One big surprise was massive overhead in the “wp_comments” table for this blog. “Overhead” usually comes into play when you’ve deleted something, whether it’s a WordPress post/comments, Joomla articles, etc. It’s space that’s basically empty in the database (since the stuff’s been [...]

Writing my last post got me thinking about link directories. I’ve used them in the past. I don’t anymore.   See… They’re legitimate. But they’re not very useful. At least not in the way most people try to use them. Website Traffic.

When you can’t count on HP, the Linux community is fortunately there for us Mac users. No, there are no “HP Certified” drivers. Yes, there are Mac ones. I pulled the information from a thread here. Thanks goes out to craigverse for the info. Before going any further, Leopard users seem to have a very [...]

November 6, 2009 update: I’ve taken a look at Fusion 3 vs Parallels 5. November 5, 2009 update: Parallels 5 is now out too, which also supports DirectX 9.0c and Shader Model 3 (PS3.0). I’ll have to test it later. October 30, 2009 update: VMWare Fusion 3 has come out, which now supports DirectX 9.0c [...]

A little hiccup on my OSX86 machine… I’d double-click the regular WoW installer, and the little animation would happen, and then… nothing.After a little searching, it appears I needed what’s known as a “Carbon Library Fix”. I’m guessing it has something to do with Rosetta being a little broken or something with the iDeneb install. [...]

Situation: DS1 (Dark Star One) in Windows 7 Beta (x64) was crashing immediately upon trying to start it. This is the Steam version of the game, although the fix may apply in other situations. The Ascaron Exception Dialogue pops up with a “Walhalla Exception” and says there’s been an “Ascaron Exception Error”. If you look [...]

Grabbed DSO for $5 through Steam over the holidays. One hiccup I found was that the rest of the Stromok system was discovered, but I couldn’t get to Odia, which is pirate infested, and hence, grants an artifact when you clear it. As it turns out, you have to head to Cabracoy first and complete [...]