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eSATA

Posted on February 24, 2010 by thinsoldier

In windows XP I tried converting my external e-sata disk to be “Dynamic”, supposedly making any disk Dynamic makes it hot-swappable. I’m not totally convinced of that. In XP I was able to plug in the drive and fudge around … Continue reading →

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CSS Box Shadow Improvements

Posted on February 20, 2010 by thinsoldier

I’ve been thinking about how we could achieve shadows like the  one to the right of this wordpress layout [screenshot] using just css. The problem is that the shadow tapers off as it gets to the bottom of the menu … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 19, 2010 by thinsoldier

I installed XP so many times that this thing I stuck in my head. It’s probably in the same brain cell where I keep my ICQ number. Two long-ass numbers that I have absolutely no use for but can’t get … Continue reading →

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photoshop tab tool tips are a pain

Posted on February 19, 2010 by thinsoldier

Every time I want to adjust text my mouse has to pass over the tab area. And every time, no matter how fast i move my mouse, it results in a tool tip. I have to wait until it goes … Continue reading →

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Eye HDR – Gaze-adapting system for displaying HDR images.

Posted on February 8, 2010 by thinsoldier

Screw “HDR Bloom” and forget “3d Gaming”. THIS IS USEFUL: Eye HDR from Christian Bloch on Vimeo.

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Netbeans Bugs

Posted on February 5, 2010 by thinsoldier

Feb 3 2010 Netbeans bugs Toggle comment menu command on a line of html gives two slashes instead of html comments [ // foo vs ] even though netbeans is obviously smart enough to realize when I’m working in a … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 5, 2010 by thinsoldier

This is a comment I had about an article on the Decorator pattern

I think some people may overlook the importance/usefulness of the decorator pattern since all you’re doing in the examples could be accomplished by just concatenating P and /P around the getData() wherever it is you were going to display it. Continue reading →

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Avatar and Race

Posted on January 7, 2010 by thinsoldier

These are my responses to various articles and comments on this subject. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markmardell/2010/01/is_blue_the_new_black_why_some.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/22/AR2009122203276.html The majority of the ‘whites’ are the bad guys who ultimately take an inglorious beating with the survivors leaving in chains… the natives win! Then there … Continue reading →

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Anti-viral

Posted on December 20, 2009 by thinsoldier

Either Microsoft Security Essentials is ABSOLUTELY USELESS or Avira AntiVir Personal has major problems with false positives!

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Hacked, then hacked again.

Posted on December 10, 2009 by thinsoldier

… then hacked one more time — edit — After not having a blog for so long I finally got around to installing wordpress. Then it needed an upgrade. Then, it got hacked. I tried removing the malicious iframes manually … Continue reading →

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