Posted 09/21/2009 at 09:31:49pm

WOW, what a novel idea.

Downloading LEGITIMATE software over the Internet.

With prices like this it might even catch on.

Posted 09/19/2009 at 11:47:38am

Unfortunately, if an infectiion is sophisticated enough to block your installed scanner then IT'S GOING TO BLOCK ONLINE ACCESS TOO.

Posted 09/10/2009 at 10:35:06pm

The case listed in the specs says it's a NZXT Beta. It's not...

It is a NZXT case though.

SilverStone/Raven RV01B-W Black Color Full Tower Case w/ Side See-Thru Window

Posted 07/25/2009 at 09:32:41pm

Yea, I misunderstood. Thanks for straightening me out.

 I took the video at face value and didn't bother to check into the nuts and bolts of how it's done.

Kinda misleading to say that the business card has made an advance it technology. Sounds like it takes special software that recognizes a pattern on the card along with an Internet connection to get the video. It's not a stand alone business card that you can give to just anybody.

Posted 07/25/2009 at 04:05:26pm

The image seems like it's the result of POST-processing on the video. The image is too sharp, too defined. Remember how whispy and ethereal the image was in Star Wars. That's MUCH more realistic. How can a business card display such an image?

 I'm thinking that this is some kind of viral marketing campaign.

Posted 07/21/2009 at 02:21:14am

I've seen more crashes in Firefox 3.5.1 than I've ever seen. I installed it on my regular PC and a laptop I'm building for a friend. Both installs crashed. The laptop crashed so hard I couldn't even open Firefox into safe mode. Both installs were on relatively new installations of Win XP.

I went back to 3.0.11

Posted 06/25/2009 at 11:25:07pm

Here's a couple of links to some of the pages MPC showed in the article.

I'm using Firefox 3.5 RC and wanted to try out the new video tricks.

Dynamic Content Injection

http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/demos/DynamicContentInjection/play.xhtml

Coraline Trailer

http://tinyvid.tv/show/3uwvr4t3wi3rm

Posted 05/09/2009 at 12:45:58am

The  DNS benchmarking tool made by Gibson Research Corporation mentioned above is working now.  I suggest using it to test your connection.

I use Quest DSL. It tested out to be by far the fastest.

In order to properly test the Quest DNS server I had to enter the IP addresses manually. If you're using a router you will find your actual DNS server there. It should be found under Connection Status.

I entered both the primary and the secondary DNS into the benchmark tool. both of them tested out to be the fastest out of any servers that the tool tests.

I also discovered something. By default Windows is set to automatically obtain a DNS. It picks the router. The router also gets it's DNS automatically. It should look to your ISPs DNS server. This means that every request must be processed by the router. If I cut out the router and enter the Quest DNS servers into Windows manually then I seem to get faster page loads.

The DNS Benchmark showed my router IP as 192.168.0.1. It's marked by a solid gold dot and it's named Home. If your router shows up as being slower than your ISPs DNS servers then you should benifit by entering the IPs for the DNS manually as well.