My last computer, purchased in January 2006, was a barebone kit from TigerDirect based on an Asus P5NSLI motherboard and a 3GHz Pentium D dual core processor. I added 2 XFX GForce 7600 graphics accelerators with SLI. It was reasonably fast back then and still is today. I am not a notorious gamer, but knowing [...]
While building my new computer, I ran into a problem after I added 2 disks from the old one that were configured as a Raid array, after installing Windows 7 on a non-Raid disk and installing the Raid drivers from the MSI utility and driver DVD. My new motherboard is an MSI P55-GD65. I found a pointer [...]
Windows Virtual PC requires hardware virtualization support. If you installed it on an older machine without running the virtualization support tool first, you probably want to remove it again. But there is no uninstall link, and Programs and Features in the Windows Control Panel does not show an entry, either. Because Virtual PC installs as [...]
The rise of Craigslist and other free or low-cost advertising platforms have made it much more affordable for companies to post job ads. The down-side of this trend is that job ads have become more informal, are being put together without much thought, and are posted by companies that you probably should pass on. Here [...]
When an asp:Imagebutton control is used with a client-side event, for instance to show a popup window, and the control is not in an asp:UpdatePanel, the client-side event does not complete because the ImageButton initiates a full post-back. In the browser, for instance with a ShadowBox popping up, it appears that the event fired and [...]
I got my hands on an 80GB Solid State Disk (SSD) and decided to put it into my new Thinkpad T410 as the primary (system) disk. I was running Windows 7 x64 Enterprise on my old laptop and wanted to avoid the hassle of having to rebuild a development system on this new disk. I [...]
I saw this question asked in various places, but no satisfactory answer was given. While only Honda knows the answer with certainty, I think there is enough evidence between my own experience and reports on the web of failing Accord and Odyssey transmissions to support a theory. In 2004, Honda issued a recall for the [...]
