NYTimes article on amount of exercise and falling ill.

NYTimes article on amount of exercise and falling ill.

Toyota wiper blade replacement numbers

Irks me to no end that the only place I can buy replacement rubber for my windshield wipers is at the dealer. They also kept giving me the wrong driver side part.

Driver side: G600, 85214 YZZD5 TM
Passenger side: G475, 85214 YZZE4

I hope I never have to do this...

But if I'm in charge of a tech conference, good little article on common wi-fi problems:
here.

Most helpful core i7-920 overclocking guides

1 - here on Hot Hardware
2 - on X-bit labs

Stats before changes according to EVGA E-LEET

CPU
Core voltage - 1.235
core i7 920@2.67 GHz

Core speed 2786.0 MHz
Multiplier x21.0
Bus speed 132.7
QPI link 2388.1 MHz

Memory
6144 MBytes
NB Frequency 22122.6 MHz

DRAM frequency 520.7 MHz
FSB:DRAM 2:8
CAS# Latency (CL) 8.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# Delay (tRCD) 8 clocks
RAS# precharge (tRP) 8 lcocks
Cycle time (tRAS) 19 clocks
Refresh Cmd Delay (tRFC) 59 clocks
Command Rate (CR) 1T

Voltages
+3.3V 3.31V
CPU VCORE 1.23 V
DRAM 1.54V
CPU VTT 1.21 V
NB CORE 1.09V
+5V 5.05V
+12V 12.11 V
VSB3V 3.26V
VBAT 3.18V

Temps under load
CPU 54.0
VREG 68.0
Systems 35.0
CPU Core #1 68.0
CPU Core #2 64
CPU Core #3 64
CPU Core #4 64

Temps not under load
CPU 32.0
VREG 58.0
Systems 34.0
CPU Core #1 48.0
CPU Core #2 43
CPU Core #3 46
CPU Core #4 43

Fans
CPU 1435 RPM
NB 4615 RPM

Overclocking
CPU 2793.0
QPI 133.0
RAM 532.0
PCIE 99.2
PCI 33.3

Core1 x 22
Core2 x 21
Core3 x 21
Core4 x 21
Turbo mode on
Enable "Brink O/C" off

Voltages
0
1.5
1.1
1.8
1.1
1.1
1.5
1.05

Stability testing for overclocking

Good article on stability testing for overclocking.

To halloween or not...

Article on FamilyLife about Halloween observance from a biblical perspective.

To convert Pinnacle TV HD to PS3 compatible format

Used Adobe Media Encoder and used the following export settings:
- MPEG2
- HDTV 1080p 23.976 HQ

Here goes everything....

Going to try setting up my Pinnacle PCTV 80e usb tv tuner for vista media center and clear QAM...I hope this restore file really is going to work...

Helpful links:
- Vista problems with Clear QAM
- Hack to get it working on Vista
- Great PC World article on the update required to make this work

To find the right registry key I had to search the registry for PCTV 80e. Did that and it popped up in the folder: USB28xxBGA

Cheap travel sites

Turns out that Priceline.com has gotten much better. I also was recommended to try Travelocity.

A thought that came to me...

Think about letting your super enthusiast users be your own entrepreneurs. Let them innovate on great ways to use your platform and then really build on their ideas; or just let your platform become it's own business. It'll be interesting to see if that's how Facebook evolves.

Long term care article on NY Times

here

Article on unconditional love and parenting. Author seems to be a bit biased himself.

How to overclock Core i7 920

How to overclock Core i7 920
article 1
article 2

Polarizers for use as variable ND filter

Creating a variable ND filter using Polarizers. Didn't work so hot for me, too much blue shift.
Article 1
Article 2

Hoping getting fit in 6 min is possible

NY Times article on getting fit in short periods of time.

I should probably turn on this Lr option for zoom.

Orchid care

Turns out I have a Phalaenopsis orchid in my office. Best tips on care I found to be here. Video showing how to cut off a branch here.

Next time I want to really pick up my clarinet again, 56 Rue Lepic reeds are supposed to the way to go, esp. strength 3.5+. Unfortunately, the local music store, West Valley Music, doesn't keep them in stock.

Hadn't thought about different color spaces when editing in Ps compared to Lr. Maybe I'll do this.

How to manually force an update of the Outlook address book when using cached mode. See Q6.

Not a good idea to pop ibuprofen before exercising.

Future photography book choices.

New Mountain View e-waste recycling program

Wow, only $79,000 per month revenue from customers...ouch

And this held up as a sign of success.

For later testing

Virtual Makeover

New Tennis Elbow therapy that appears to be much more effective than the old ways.

Whoa...in 1963 top marginal tax rate was 91%!?!

For perspective on tax brackets historically

Wondering if it's time to upgrade the home network

Home network fixes including 802.11N

Confusing article about knees and running

NY Times...

Got insert key working in VMWare

Thank goodness for the keyboard mapping preference. Went in there and assigned Function-Return to be the insert key. Nice!

Ankle sprain care from Ny Times

Give it more time

New crimereports.com too for Mt View

crimereports.com

Need to visit this bakery

Sugar Butter Flour
669 S. Bernardo Ave.
Sunnyvale, CA

Good explanation of California's budget woes

SJ Mercury

Another article on DVD archival media

here

PlayOn on the Wii...

Probably won't use, but might try it just for kicks...
here

If only I had $800 lying around...

Awesome Flex Calendar component

The famous Feynman lectures online

I guess I have to thank Mr. Gates for this one. Silverlight...ug...
Here

Very interesting wiki on fiction writing...

Throw a couple of these together and you have a TV episode, novel...

Drive recovery people in bay area

Everyone swears by these guys, and they're pretty close to the SF office:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/lazarus-data-recovery-san-francisco

There was a good thread on SF Ads a couple weeks ago with suggestions about data recovery tools and stuff.

You might want to search the archives for disk recover. There was a ton of good information.

Anyways, you can try this adapter which is recommended by an Adobe employee's blog called "Newer Technology USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter"
http://terrywhite.com/techblog/archives/2190

Key remote team take aways

For better collaboration:

- Figure out that culture's metaphors for teams
- Remind people they're on the same team, make team salient
- Treat people in "normative ways" to show part of a team in collectivist cultures
- Video game competitions across seas
- Localization of meeting notes
- Change status reporting to "team showing off events"

Aetna health self-assessment

Ok, gotta start exercising...but how...oy....

Maps around Shoreline Park in Mt. View

Best one
Palo Alto Baylands Park

Those at the white house dealing with work/family balance

Here

Best burger info from NY Times

Here

11 health myths, a few new to me...

NY Times

Exercise in 6 min a week? Please please please be true...

Ny times

Bullying prevention strategies

NYTimes article. Not easy, but addressable.

Lowest frequencies of orchestra instruments

Listed here. Double bass info here.

Harlem miracle

Education story

CNET hdtv config info for Samsung ln46b750

Here
Recommended Blu-Ray setup disc

DLNA server reviews

http://www.rbgrn.net/content/21-how-to-choose-dlna-media-server-windows-mac-os-x-or-linux

Instructions on how to set up DLNA from Windows Media Player

here

How to change Vista network from public to private

Totally didn't see the customize link before...here

Fixed wireless problem with Samsung Wireless LAN Adapter

Couldn't get it to connect to my wireless WPA2 Personal network. Have a Samsung ln46b750. Had to do two things:
a) Make it publish its SSID
b) Change the WPA Algorithm from TKIP+AES to just AES.

Soooo annoying, but at least it works!
Bob

Frequent flyer searching site

http://www.expertflyer.com/frequent-flyer-programs

Free museum days

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito
Chabot Space & Science Center, Oakland
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose
The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
M.H. de Young Museum
Exploratorium, San Francisco
Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley
Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley
Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco
Oakland Museum of California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco Zoo
San Jose Museum of Art
IMAX movie at The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose
Zeum, San Francisco

For more information on Koret Museum Days, visit

http://www.koretfoundation.org/news/press_releases/pr_20609.htm

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.

MS project keyboard shortcut

To set up predecessors on unlinked tasks - Ctrl-F2

Way to get HTML tables to translate br's not into new rows

Here...totally worked. Sweet!

Found THE clarinet repairman to go to!

Daniel Deitch (pronounced Diich)
SF Article on him

And if I were to get a shortscale guitar, this might be it...

Latest on PSA blood tests

NY Times

DTV links

SJ Merc
Decent info also here

How to transpose Excel columns <-> rows

Here

Dude, this is awesome!

Video of it here
Site URL here

Pricegrabber.com for good price search engine

pricegrabber.com

Apparently the best guitar technique book

here

I got two daughters...this may be a future purchase...

NY Times review of My Little Red Book

Simcity land value faq

here

Low tech solutions

NY Times

How to have different pictures in a picture package

From PS Lightoorm Killer Tips
here and here

Autism/vaccine lawsuits lose

NY Times

When to keep kids home, how to prevent infections

Here

Not blowing your nose...

Now what am I to do?

New flags at SJ memorial

2/5/2009

Fascinating article on how Japan's infrastructure investment did and did not pay off

Let's hope we in the US get it right. NY Times.

Sites for tracking down people

From LifeHacker

LCDS links

adobe 1
adobe 2

There is also a test drive application that Christophe Coenraets created. That’s included in the lcds-samples web application that’s part of the LCDS installation.

Outside of Adobe, brightcove has the best links.