Ok, so they’re not flowers, they’re lemniscates. If you are using IE 5.01 Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later and the Microsoft Office 2003 Web Components, you can play with this interactively by clicking on the flower. IE may give you a security warning. Apparently IE doesn’t trust Excel. The equation is ampl + PM […]
Into the Void
Back off, man, I'm co-creating my reality.
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VMWare and Win98
Mr. X was asking about his favorite DOS-based Doubles Pinochle program again. I was unable to get it running under either Win2000 Pro or WinXP Pro SP2 – it looked as if it were grabbing the fonts with the wrong character size. I had given up on it, but Mr. X is really into pinochle. […]
Treasure from Used Hard Drives
MIT researchers uncover mountains of private data on discarded computers. The article above points out that it is not enough to format your harddrive before discarding it. A format only removes directory information, it doesn’t actually remove the data. In 2003, some MIT students obtained 158 used hard drives from eBay and other sources. Most […]
Spyware Warrior
Spyware Warrior: Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites Just thought I’d share this site. Very useful after one of your kids poisons your computer with the free spyware nuker that his alleged friend recommended.
Jagged Peak Adventure
YouTube – Line Rider – Jagged Peak Adventure A new game. If I did drugs I might waste a year or two playing this game.
Windows Vista – Got Crack?
Hacker publicly cracks Windows Vista – vnunet.com For those of you who aren’t aware that the long-awaited Microsoft “Longhorn” OS has been released for Beta testing under the new name “Vista”… well, they have. Add more memory, clear 40G in your harddrive to run a virtual machine, and buy a new video card if you […]
Subdreamer Under Windows
Flush with my recent success running Tiki Wiki under Windows XP SP2, I thought it might be fun to try Subdreamer, too. Subdreamer is a Content Management System and is different from a Wiki mainly in the way it organizes and presents data. Subdreamer has the advantage of allowing me to integrate my phpBB forum […]
Still Reluctant
Of course, if I *wanted* a dual-boot system, XP probably would have shredded the existing file system.
The Reluctant Geekess
I’ve been dragging my feet as far as the soon-to-be Linux Laptop goes. There are a couple of issues that I haven’t quite resolved. First, Knoppix came up in the GUI. It didn’t seem to support the wireless card. But it communicated with it, which is better than Windows 98 did. I found what might […]
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