Category Archives: computing

Removing the redundant “google doodle” in Chrome

Posted on November 17, 2013 by admin

Sometime this fall Google pushed out a change that puts the google logo/search bar in the tabs home page. Clicking on the search bar in the middle of the page is just a dirty trick, it redirects you to the … Continue reading →

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Setting up Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 in a workgroup

Posted on September 14, 2013 by admin

Setting up Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 in a workgroup All of Microsoft’s server stuff is designed to work within an already existing Active Directory environment. Most home users don’t have an Active Directory server, unless you are running SAMBA … Continue reading →

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Intel i217-V network drivers for Windows Server 2012 R2

Posted on September 14, 2013 by admin

Intel can eat a bag of dicks. Here is the driver you need to run Server 2012 on the i217-V chipset. For some reason they released the i217-V (desktop) and i217-LM (server) versions of their gigabit ethernet chip. They are … Continue reading →

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TP-Link TL-WR1043ND DD-WRT No WAN fix

Posted on September 15, 2012 by admin

Fixing the TL-WR1043ND wireless router so that it works with DD-WRT firmware. Continue reading →

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Spinning down USB drives in linux

Posted on August 2, 2012 by admin

Some of the commercial solutions like the “Passport” and “MyBook” USB drives have spin down logic built in to avoid excessive wear and tear. I recently came across a steal on newegg for a bare bones Intel D2500 (atom) based nettop, and … Continue reading →

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Handbrake Copyright Protected DVD PC Fix

Posted on June 12, 2012 by admin

Handbrake, the easy one step DVD ripping program for PC/Mac/Linux, is giving you crap about a “this DVD may be copyright protected”? And the VLC fix obviously didn’t work, because you have a windows PC, not a mac. Well you … Continue reading →

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Shopping for a cheap VPS

Posted on January 19, 2012 by admin

It’s still a bit of a Wild West in terms of VPS providers. There is Amazon’s EC2, Rackspace…. and then there is everybody else. Amazon seems to have a “micro” tier for $2.30/mo…. but you have to pay 3 years … Continue reading →

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Libtcod and Roguelikes

Posted on November 8, 2011 by admin

Digging around in a friend’s python scripts and editing them for my own use got me thinking about games like Dwarf Fortress, NetHack and even old space trader games like Elite and Freelancer. Generally, Roguelikes are characterized as being text/console … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 Developer Preview

Posted on September 15, 2011 by admin

I’m writing this on Windows 8 right now. It both installs and runs surprisingly well inside of a virtual machine. Actually, it shouldn’t be that surprising; in this day and age most people would rather cautiously install it on a Virtual Box or … Continue reading →

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