Should have made a backup first...

Arg

Good post on Quicken Online / Mint review

Here

Finally figured out how to go to the end of the current line in TextEdit on the Mac

Cmd-right arrow...oy...

Why to stockpile water for a possible flu outbreak

Here

The lovely world of archival media...

Again, can't trust anyone...
Best write up so far...
Site for buying Taiyo Yuden discs

Quick sites I don't want to lose

Guitar repair site
Audigy custom cable ordering site
America's Test Kitchen

Microsoft Project fix

Got all my tasks bleeding over days. From here realized that I had set my default start time to 9am, but the work day started at 8am. Oy. The only way to fix the problem was to change the date format preference to include the time and then to manually go and edit the time in each field. Arg!

Debt settlements not working...

You still can't get something for nothing...NY Times.

Yo go girl!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OcQ9A-5noM&feature=related

References on geocentrism from wikipedia

Very nicely done:
Geocentrism historical overveiw
Modern geocentrism
Catholic book espousing modern geocentrism
Flat earth entry
Firmament entry

If I ever have to take people around "silicon valley"

Some cheater tips from the NY Times. Gotta try La Costena now...

Some seemingly knowledgeable info about the native DPI of the Epson R1800 (which I have).
720 and 741 seem like the DPIs for me.

To fix mobo power light...

Looks like I need to rewire the 3 pin Berg connector to a 2 pin version. Probably want a crimper and the like. This would probably be a .1" spaced one and something I'd want to Radio Shack over a Fry's for something like this.

Ug. At least this website pointed me in the right direction.

Stupid JMicron error on startup, fixing sleep issues

Ended up disabling in BIOS the JMicron SATA ports on the EGA X58 motherboard that I wasn't using on board and the error went away. The error message had been:
"warning:have option rom can not be invoke" Nice English there...:)

Great article on how to fix sleep problems with Vista/XP with the key powercfg -a command.

Please make this fix the eSATA issue on EVGA x58

The hopeful answer to my eSATA problem. Please!!!
JMicron download site

Rebuild machine at home

This was how I did my own machine at home:

Prep/backup:
- Deactivate Adobe software
- Uninstall SuperSync in case I need to free up the serial number
- Make sure iTunes is up to date
- Consolidate iTunes library (File->Library -> Consolidate Library)
- Deauthorize iTunes (Store->Deauthorize)
- Export Browser favorites

Backup
- Browser favorites (including Yuki's)
- Backup desktop
- Backup Lego data files
- Backup Battlefield 2142 My Documents folder
- Backup data drive
- Including Outlook data file (D:Outlook)
- Make sure photo stuff is backed up

- Check out RAID block size
* 64KB
+ Make sure that Acronis 11 works on the computer
+ Make sure that I have a RAID disk for Windows install

Install phase 1:
- Unplug USB media drive
- Install Windows
- Install video driver
- Install Ethernet driver
- Install updates

Image
- NVidia ntune
- Realtek audio driver
- X-Fi drivers

- VPN
- RumblePad
- Covenant Eyes
- Huey Pro
- Epson R1800
- HP PCL 1220
- Canon i960
- Scanjet 5300c
- VirusScan
- Nero + update
- Firefox
- Office
- Palm
- iTunes/QT

- Web Premium
- LR

- Battlefield 2142
- Lego star wars
- Lego Indiana Jones


Downloaded, found software for:
- Acronis
- Adobe CS3 Web Prem
- Cisco for Vista
- CE installer
- MS Office 2003
- X-Fi 64 bit drivers
- Epson R1800 64 bit drivers
- HP Laserjet 1200 64 bit vista drivers
- Logitech game controller vista driver
- McAfee virus scan
- Firefox
- [no Vista support for Nero 6 it would seem]
- Nvidia updated driver from XFX
- Huey Pro 1.5
- QT/iTunes
- Lightroom 2.0
- CDM+
- SuperSync installer

Great lists for the Bay Area

This guy on Yelp. His most famous is the one for rainy day activities for kids. He's dead on.

Firefox table tool

Might even work better than the IE hack? We'll see...
Here

Interesting study on memory molecule

ny times

How to make the old scanjet 5300c scanner driver work on Vista

Here for technical walkthrough
Here for similar info with a guy complaining

Power supply estimator

Right here

573+150 (if go to SLI) +175 (if do an overclock) = 898
So need 900 Watt power to do both, or 750 if not doing SLI.

Offsite process take aways

Good
- Use of video camera to zoom in on writing on the board
- "Shift and Share" sessions to get cross pollination. Included sign up list, and two rotations.
- On Day 2 Design Team redid the grouping
- Everyone had to be there all three days (did hurt when people left)
- Used a number on the back of people's badges for random assignments
- Limited number of chairs to exactly the number of people supposed to be there. Expectation set that all seats were to be filled.
- Handheld mics for recap sessions. Should have had 3 mics instead of two.
- Used paper stuck to large magnetic sheets for transferring information from the white board to the results area.
- Turned back to the team and asked them what sessions are needed in the afternoon, but seeded with suggestions.
- At the right times asking for volunteers, at other times assigning people ahead of time
- Fines to charity for people caught using cell phones/laptops
- Name tags all three days
- Tradeshow format for sharing info (1 plenary, smaller audience ask questions and shift)
- Using 3 people to generate boring definitions and present them
- IKEA example about not knowing what it is until you're done.

Could have been better
- Should have used wireless lavaliere mics
- Used better LCD screens with HDTV so slides were readable
- Started breakfast half an hour earlier than start time. Should have publicized real start time and stuck to it?
- Eating in shifts without enough food meant those that played by the rules didn't have enough to eat.
- Squares listing all the previously generated requirements were taped to each other (hard to remove)
- Paper attached to magnetic sheets involved permanent marker, hard to adjust. Ended up being lots of small writing with bad handwriting.
- Should have said the purpose of the current activity for things that will not change.
- Nametags should always use black bold print
- Should have directed people to find terms that they know something about, and then grab other folks.
- IKEA example also goes better when you know where it's going
- Reference material never seemed to make it into the sessions (Master Feature list, etc.)
- Use cases weren't locked down enough for a real basis of conversation. Too dense. Should have been simplified ahead of time.