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Recover from BAD_POOL_HEADER blue screen errors after upgrading hard drive
I noticed recently that I’d get logged off from my computer over night. I’d leave the system running at night without logging off, and in the morning I’d have to log in again, with all the previously running programs gone. I had recently added a SATA...
Pictures in my Windows 7 Theme Pack
In case you’ve seen my Windows 7 Theme Pack, here are the pictures that are in it. You may want to know if they’re worth it before you download the 12+ MB of .themepack file.   Read More...
My first Windows 7 Theme Pack
Just so I can say that I jumped on a bandwagon once: Mike Swanson inspired me to create my very own Windows 7 Theme Pack. It contains 12 pictures I’ve taken over the past year or so with my trusty old Canon PowerShot S30 (yes, I’m still running around...
Crayon Physics is out now!
Just in case you haven’t seen it, this is probably the neatest geek game out there right now (next to World of Goo). Crayon Physics Deluxe from Petri Purho on Vimeo Go get it at www.crayonphysics.com. Perfect for the HP TouchSmart PC, by the way...
HP TouchSmart development on .NET Rocks!
Check out the interview with some of the HP TouchSmart folks on .NET Rocks! It just went live earlier today. http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=399 The parts for developers are mostly in the first 15 minutes. I have some PDF slides that might...
Listen to you hard drive’s S.M.A.R.T. status - part 2
In which I learn that even though the SMART status and drive self-tests report "No problems found", you can’t trust them all the time. To make a long story short: Even though I’ve mentioned in the past that it’s a good idea to...
The cat’s finally out of the bag - The new HP TouchSmart IQ500 has been announced
The big day is here and gone. The new TouchSmart PC has been announced to great fanfare on the web, and I’m sure there’s more to come. The blogs are full of praise and criticism already, of course. Since I was closely involved with the creation...
Only a few more days now to the Big Unveiling
Next week Monday through Wednesday there’s an invitation-only event in Berlin, Germany where some of the stuff I’ve been working on (since the HP TouchSmart) will be shown to the public for the first time. I hear it’s going to have top...
The OLPC arrived - see what’s in the box
I had almost forgotten about the OLPC give-one-get-one campaign I took the opportunity to participate in last year. Well, the thing finally came today. I wasn’t really all that anxious to get it, so it didn’t bother me at all that it took...
Netflix WatchNow MediaError(1400): One solution
Here’s a quick tip: If you’re a Netflix subscriber and are having problems with the WatchNow feature, take a look at whether you have any caching proxy servers between the PC you’re using to watch a show and the Netflix servers (yes...
Computer performance puzzle: Hard drive PIO vs. (U)DMA mode
[I may have a hard drive mini-series on my hands here, see previous post.] If your computer has performance problems and you can’t quite explain why (you’ve ruled out startup items, spyware and such ilk), it may be worth looking at how your...
Posted: Feb 18 2008, 09:06 PM by GeekTieGuy
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Listen to your hard drive’s S.M.A.R.T. status
As I mentioned in my last post, I went to the local Fry’s recently to get a replacement hard drive. What prompted me to do that was a warning from the BIOS of my computer saying that the S.M.A.R.T. status of the drive was bad. I’m glad I listened...
Posted: Feb 18 2008, 03:37 PM by GeekTieGuy
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