Archive for the ‘Nonsense’ Category

The Little Golden Books – William Faulkner connection

The opening passage of “We Help Daddy”, by Mini Stein, has very clear echos of Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury”, intentional or not.

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Two Xbox consoles, one gold account, and offline achievements

What happens when your offline achievements were earned while the same gamertag was being used to connect to Xbox Live on another console?

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Autonegotiation

Some notes on the commonly misunderstood subject of network autonegotiation, with an emphasis on duplex mismatches caused by differences in configurations of two partners to a connection.

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GameFly shipped Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Woohoo! GameFly shipped Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim!

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A common sense workaround for installing SetPoint in a VMware virtual machine

A workaround to installing Logitech’s SetPoint utility in order to map mouse buttons on a Windows XP virtual machine running in VMWare Workstation 7.

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A PHP MySQL snippet for looking up names

A PHP snippet and MySQL query for an Ajax autocompleter lookup of people names by either “Firstname Lastname” or “Lastname, Firstname” from a single input field.

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Configuring FileZilla FTP to use active mode to resolve “425 Can’t open data connection” errors

How to configure the FileZilla FTP client to use active mode in order to resolve “425 Can’t open data connection” errors, and why they occur.

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Fixed: Universal USB Installer syslinux errors

Syslinux Errors 1, zero FAT sectors, means your drive isn’t formatted as FAT32.

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Virgin Mobile USA Phone Number Port Snafu

How porting my T-Mobile phone number to Virgin Mobile resulted in my $25/month plan being converted to a $35/month plan, costing me $120/year for as long as I am a customer.

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Why do I even play MW2: Black Ops?

If I’m so terrible at Modern Warfare 2: Black Ops, why do I keep playing it?

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