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DirecTV blows
Dear DIRECTV ( Read more... ) -
Mount Taiowa
I turn back into the wind and I can see the edge of the world. It's a stark line against the dark blue of the sky. There are some trails of smoke rising from the top of the plateau ( Read more... ) -
cat notes
Describing/categorizing the fur colors and patterns of house cats: "classic/mackerel tabby with white". -
Irene Shiraz @ Macy's
I went furniture shopping at Macy's in downtown Chicago yesterday. It's in the original Marshall Field's building, and my Lord, the place is huge. Not only is the footprint big-an entire block-but there's eight floors of retail space, and an entire floor of restaurant/cafes. I know now why Marshall Field's was legendary ( Read more... ) -
If only I could retain this kind of info long-term (Re: LVM)
Xpost from reddit:
I really don't like that HOWTO. It's an okay over-view, but it doesn't explain much in the way of details, or why you should care. And yet it's the best documentation I can find on LVM (Logical Volume Managment). sighAnd I should point out that I'm hardly some kind of LVM expert-I just happen to have been reading up on file ( Read more... ) -
A Complete Understanding is No Longer Possible
I've been saying for a while that computer systems and the like have gotten so complex that it's basically impossible to really understand them or how they work. Well, someone else has gone through the details of a specific example of that: Understanding a MacBook AirI refer to the things that happen before and after the part of a process/system ( Read more... ) -
Changing the command-line prompt in XP
The prompt in a Windows terminal is defined by prompt. Details: Prompt
You can have a prompt command run for every terminal with a registry hack at:
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Cattle are not pets.
Marty cracked the shell off a pistachio with his teeth, and tossed the bits on the floor of the limo.
Samantha just stared at him, her mouth slightly ajar.
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USB read speeds
Sloppy analysis of some data from the intarwebs indicates these brands of USB flash drives have the best read speeds:- A-DATA Technology Co., Ltd.
- Apacer Technology, Inc.
- Hewlett-Packard
- Kingston Technology
- Lexar Media, Inc.
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Formatting USB drives for Windows
Windows (XP at least) doesn't give you the option to format a USB flash drive with an NTFS file system. This is because USB flash-memory devices have a flag set for "Quick Removal". Meaning that caching for writes is disabled (or at least minimized). Because of the journaling involved in NTFS, Windows wants a write cache for flash memory, ( Read more... )