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Chess

I am feeling back in the mood again to play some games. I had gotten burnt out on it for a while and then was spending time doing other things. So I am back playing again, feel free to join me at Gameknot.com

Idiocracy Movie Review

Idiocracy- 2006 Luke Wilson you can read about the Plot Here I thought the movie was alright, however it was rated "R" and easily could have removed a few things to get it down to a PG-13 and they could have released it to the teen market. Instead apparently they did not release it with any marketing. My rating is rent-able, and not for children. I only have a few ratings: Movie Theater Rent-able Pick it up at the Library Wait for TV version pray for something else to do basically my rating system is based on how many work tokens I would give up to see it, or rather recommend you giving up.

NCAA Final Four

The NCAA Final Four is set, and not a single number one is left playing. You say, what about defending champs, Florida and Ohio St. I never said I was talking about Basket ball. Late yesterday the Minnesota Gophers fell to the North Dakota Fighting Sues! 3-2 in OT. It was not very energetic game for the Gophers, they looked flat and really looked very tired late in the 3rd period and in the OT. North Dakota did have too much energy either but did look to have more then the Gophers. So what is with the tournament rankings? why was North Dakota only a 3? Boston College, seemed to me to be worthy of a higher ranking. Notre Dame, who did they really play anyway?? The only team that they beat in the tournament was a team with a losing record!! Well the WCHA has owned this tournament up until this year... or does North Dakota have what it takes? I think that any team with T.J. Oshie on it has a shot, I really enjoy watching him play. In my opinion the game to watch will be the second game o...

Network Slowness

Network slowness is a huge problem, perceived problem, and overall high percentage of reason for opening a trouble ticket. One such problem that I ran in to actually had a simple resolution. I however did not have eyes in the right place to find it fast. The users reports general network slowness and application disconnects. Checking the for common simple items that could cause theses issues brought me no closer to a resolution. I checked the circuits for errors, I checked the router logs for any indications. I checked the router interfaces for any indication of bandwidth issues. None of these led to any thing that I could follow up. I checked the remote devices in the data center. they were clean, the local devices at the affected site were clean. We had a sniffer running at the data center, and it showed no reason for the slowness or disconnects I eventually had run pings to the users IP addresses and found that when they complained of the problem, the pings became non-responsive. A...

Microsoft NS

Here is a good article that talks about Microsoft name resolution. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/technol/tcpipfund/tcpipfund_ch07.mspx

Turn and Run

That was my thought as I preparing for the 12 hour on this problem, and what to tell the next shift. It seems as though lately at work, Verizon does not see a problem, so then they wont try and help you or even try to troubleshoot the issue with you. Yesterday I have a DS3 taking errors and they could not see the errors, the errors only incremented when traffic was pushed across. If we put a loop in at the nearest point to my site, the errors disappeared completely, no mater how much traffic I pushed out there. The very next point in their network, as soon as they looped we took errors, yet they refused to take responsibility for the problem. Last week is was two T1 IMA that they had backwards at the POP and were refusing to take responsibility. This again was the same thing, the thing that blew my mind was when they were working on it with me, and I asked them to put a loop on circuit a, and circuit b went down, I said you took the wrong circuit down, he says no I didn't. I poin...

Sandisk Sansa MP3 Player M240

http://www.mobileplanet.com/f.aspx?i=130057 found a few options that worked on one of these, I have two with the same problem. First I tried this: 1.Go to the settings on the Sandisk MP3 player. 2. Go into the USB menu. 3. Tick the MSC option. Now plug the MP3 player back into your usb port and you will now be able to see the music files! That Cleared the issue one time, on one player. To delete the files, I needed to go into my mp3 itself. 1.) Go into the player, and go to the settings. 2.) Find where it says to reset the settings to default. 3.) Reset them and plug the player back into the computer. 4.) Search for the Music folder and the songs should show up. Going to try it now on the profile for that MP3 player.

Invisible Fence Battery Replacement

We have an invisible fence for our dog, and the batteries last up to 3 months. The company will only tell you to purchase them from them, costing about $50 a year. if you break it open you will see that the modle used by my purchase was only a Duracell DL1/3N 3volt battery which cost only around $5

A youtube posting showing the kids

I look at this whenever I am miss the children.

Sandisk Sansa M240 problem

I have a sandisk Sansa M240 MP3 Player, and I am having an issue with it. I first loaded just a few songs to it, and then later I loaded it up full. Before the second time it Window Media Player gave an error indicating that it did not recognized the files already loaded on there, (something like there must have been loaded from another PC). two choices, one was to leave them, the other was to delete them. I chose to delete them and it said it did, however they are actually loaded on the device still. and WMP does not recognize them at all. I have search the web over and found no solution. The music is just stuck on there! I did upload Firmware since and it did not help at all. if anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate hearing them. see my updated entry to help you correct this problem

Demise of Analog TV

I know I am not up on a lot of things, but from what I am reading here, I have about 5 television sets that will be worthless unless I get some sort of converter! *Digital TV Converters To Sell For About $60 http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/e5lk0HIRlO0G4W0E8H40EW