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This short guide is intended for users who dual-boot between Linux and Windows. In my case, it is Ubuntu Linux and Windows XP on my Acer Aspire 5102 laptop.
Although I am a heavy user of delicious bookmarking, I like to conveniently line up all of my routine websites like Google Reader, Google AdSense, and Shoemoney’s […]

Brent at Relentlus unintentionally tipped me off to a solution for fixing what I had long thought was an AJAX problem in Wordpress. I was doing some comment PR for Pepperjam on Shoemoney’s new post about the breaking news of Pepperjam’s partnership with Doubleclick. And Brent was curious enough to check out my blog and […]

Some Chinese foreign exchange students at Wilkes University introduced me to an amazing P2P TV-watching program called PPStream. The name “PPStream” stands for peer-to-peer streaming video. Combine BitTorrent with Youtube, and then you have a fully functional multimedia pwnage software like PPStream.
It took me a while to understand how this program works, and I still […]

My new apartment in Wilkes-Barre is only a block away from Wilkes University. Since there’s not much happening in my home, I roam the streets of Wilkes-Barre like a nomad without a destination. And I end up within the walls of Wilkes University very often to eat and hang out.
I happened to stop by the […]

Some ridiculous woman by the name of Dianne Kelley is suing Microsoft because her “Windows Vista Ready” computer cannot be upgraded with the whole plethora of features. Rather, her pre-Vista computer can only run Vista Home Basic, which doesn’t include the pretty Aero interface or the Media Center capabilities.
Dianne claims “that they were purchasing Vista […]

Penn State decided to give me $460 in undergraduate research funds for this spring semester. For just doing academic work, that’s more than one of my paychecks when I used to earn commission for selling tractors and lawnmowers at Sears.
As I mentioned on our IST Club website, Professor Alfredo Jimenez is working on a project […]

IT technicians around the country are frantically running amok in offices and computer labs for a common cause. The Y2K hoopla has risen from the dead, according to this eweek.com article about the upcoming change in daylight savings time.
I must be completely ignorant of the world around me, because I had no idea that the […]

Microsoft is unleashing Windows Vista tomorrow. Will you be one of the thousands of Windows fanatics lining up like lemmings at Best Buy to have first dibs on the new cutting-ege operating system?

Vista claims hardened security, prettier graphics and a bunch of annoying copyright restrictions.
I’m getting a copy of Home Premium now only because a […]