on July 31, 2008
by Nick
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I might get castrated here by about 5,000 men and women attempting to profit from what I am about to neg down, but I don’t care. There comes a time when the internet needs to know the truth, and this is definitly that time.
Making money on the internet is much harder than you would think. Granted, I have not been in the business much at all, but I was lured by the “lol easy to make teh monies in 5 easy steps” type of games and decided to give it a try. It’s not do simple as they would like you to believe.
Here are a couple of things to beware of before you embark on a journey towards web monetization.
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on July 30, 2008
by Nick
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An article on CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/30/frank.marijuana/index.html) alerted me that a Massachusetts democrat is going to propose legislation that would, to a small extent, make marijuana legal. While it would not be legal to the extent of cigarettes or alcohol, it would be quite a giant leap forward.
No, unfortunately, this is a bill that has promise but, in the political snowball game we like to play, has a few stipulations attached.
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on July 26, 2008
by Nick
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On what would have been the average Friday night, something simultaneously stupid and amazing happened.
A friend of mine came over with plans to hang out and probably go to bars or whatever. She showed up at my house and was on the phone with someone. Just as she was completing her phone call, she got out of her car, closed the door, walked three feet, and then heard a honk. Wouldn’t ya know it, her doors were locked.
Where were her keys? Inside the car.
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on July 24, 2008
by Jon
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After updating the kernel on my Fedora 8 box, I was greeting by VMware Server failing to load. I figured now would be a good time to try out 2.0 RC 1. I had read that it was a fair bit different and that they had done away with the console client in favor of a web based client so I was interested in seeing if there were any major new features. After downloading the 1.0.5 tarball (again) to get and run the uninstall script (which does not delete your virtual machines) I was ready to go.
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on July 23, 2008
by Nick
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Car alarms are a debatably common tool on most cars today. Their effect, while good at heart, has questionable results in the real world. Something that occured last night, while in the midst of a deep and comfortable sleep, leads me to believe that car alarms have a couple of fatal flaws.
Aside from their dubious effect on actually detering a criminal, they have a couple of important tendencies that, while good at heart, have caused me to, essentially, want to destroy every single one ever made.
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on July 18, 2008
by Nick
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My new quad-core setup arrived on Monday and, after installing it, I took a few pictures. For those with similar setups, wondering if it fits, it indeed does. Here are my specs to-date for people who are trying to compare:
Case: Coolermaster Centurion 532
CPU: Intel Q6600 G0 @ 3.0ghz
RAM: 2×2gig OCZ Platinum DDR2 1066
HDD:
- Western Digital 160gig 16mb cache 7200rpm
- Seagate 7200.10 320gig 32mb cache 7200rpm
- Seagate 7200.10 500gig 32mb cache 7200rpm
- Western Digital 80gig 8mb cache 7200rpm
PSU: Silverstone Zeus 650w
DVD: Some Sony DVDRW drive
Video: EVGA 8800GT 512mb PCI-E 2.0
Sound: Creative Audigy 2 ZS
Motherboard: Biostar TSeries TP45 HP
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