Hey, this theme is very mobile-friendly,…

Posted by rae in General
at 6:30 pm on Monday, 25 May 2009

Hey, this theme is very mobile-friendly, too. Nice..

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Figured out the avatars – you have to be…

Posted by rae in General
at 6:17 pm on Monday, 25 May 2009

Figured out the avatars – you have to be using gravatar.com I think.

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Trying out the “P2″ theme, which makes…

Posted by rae in General
at 5:33 pm on Monday, 25 May 2009

Trying out the “P2″ theme, which makes WordPress look not unlike Twitter. Maybe I’ll post more. Hm, if I had a plugin for ping.fm, I definitely would post here more.. In the course of doing this, I had to upgrade to WordPress 2.7.1, which was a big no-brainer..

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Success! ASUS A7N8X + terabyte hard drive

Posted by rae in General
at 6:18 pm on Saturday, 2 May 2009

Tnir, my household Linux box, has been down for a couple of weeks now. I hit a bit of a roadblock when the motherboard erfused to recognize a new hard drive I had bought. It was too big — 1 TB (which is 1000 GB, or perhaps 1024 if you’re a programmer, or 999 if you’re a sales droid).

So I did my usual check for a new BIOS, which would normally fix things. There was a moderately new BIOS, only a few months younger than the one I had, but installing it had no effect. Still no drive.

After googling around I ran across an article that laid out all the steps I had to take, which included creating my own BIOS. Egad.

That scared me a bit, so I put it off for a while.

But today I tried again, and realized that the BIOS is really like a zip file, with a bunch of other little files in it, and I was just replacing the (SATA) disk part with a new version. And sure ernough, I got my new drive listed, with 938 GB (damn those marketing droids!)

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SciFi Channel —> SyFy Channel?!?!?

Posted by rae in entertainment
at 9:15 am on Friday, 1 May 2009

SyFy
new name of SciFi Channel

The US “SciFi” channel is going to be renamed in July to the “Syfy” channel.

I am speechless.

Are they morons?

What the frak?

P.S. Wordpress seems unable to handle UTF-8 characters in the title of a post. I *tried* to use a proper arrow character, really I did. *sigh

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