Downtown Memphis Blog

I noticed how cheap laptop ram has gotten and decided to order an upgrade. I picked up 2GB from NewEgg.com for $45 shipped, stuck it in and fired it back up. Much faster load time for sure. Definately a worthy upgrade.

I forgot to post this from MusicFest weekend.

So, I’ve been kinda MIA because I made the mistake of deciding to update my old desktop with a fresh XP install. I wrestled with BIOS versions, USB keyboard issues, and a million other things, but I finally got it updated with the latest BIOS and a version of XP Pro SP3 stripped down with nLite.
SP3 seems to boot a lot faster, but that could be because my XP install was ~3.5 years old, the format likely helped a lot too. I’m about to install Ubuntu as well, I already have on my laptop and it seems ok, a little complicated for simple shit, but very customizable, so I’ll give it a shot.

In local news, pay attention to West Memphis 3 news, it’s about to start developing.

Not much posting activity lately because I’m trying to salvage my old Dell desktop, do a fresh XP install, and add a partition to dual boot linux. I’ll update with pretty screenshots and hows to’s and links too cool stuff soon. Either that or I’ll update with pictures of my computer with 20 rounds of 9mm hollowpoint in it. Either way, it will be entertaining.

I’ve spent the last day and a half wondering why my Microsoft USB keyboard wouldn’t work properly in BIOS. Yes, legacy support was enabled. It would work to enter bios, then it would work for one more keypress, then it would no longer respond to anything. The final solution: remove microsoft’s driver’s and just use the base HID drivers. Works perfectly now.

Amazon has a sale on refurbed ice cream makers, $20 + shipping for a $99 machine. I might have to check it out, I need an excuse to eat ice cream.

At least if you use multiple computers. PortableApps.com is a free and open source software suite that contains a bunch of useful programs that execute from your flash drive and leaves nothing on the host computer when you’re done. It includes a browser, calendar and contact client, mail client, antivirus software, openoffice, and bunch of other cool stuff. There’s also like 11ty other programs you can add. The main suite is around 90Mb.

My 8GB thumb drive now sports Firefox with add-on’s for an FTP client, adblock, and gmail notifier, a full office suite, a picture editor, pidgen IM, a full financial suite, a backup utility, an antivirus that’s capable of checking both the drive and the host computer, an html/code-centric text editor, a compression/extration util, and a media player, all executable from the thumbdrive ftmfw.

/nerd

Oh yeah, and there’s over 7GB left over for storage

I was quoted $32.99, which is completely different from the $23.99 referenced here or the $37.99 reference on their website. They also told me that the $19.99 768/128 package was no longer available. I’m supposed to have the CD by Saturday, we’ll see what goes down…

I’m still trying to find a gmail workaround for postie on domains that don’t have SMTP php access, and I was going to post on the site and saw this. Hope it gets it worked out, that’s a cool program.

And yeah, domain change, down all weekend, etc. I’ll update in a few, but I’m making food, as I’ve been staring at code all day instead of eating

If you’re gonna post some email forward your mom sent you, at least check snopes.com first.

Fuck you, I’ll buy gas whenever I want.

Fuck you, the photoshopped picture of Obama/Hillary/Ron Paul/Bill Clinton/John McCain/Xenu doing something retarded isn’t real. Yes, the picture of George W. Bush doing something retarded is real.

No, George Carlin does not want “God” on his money and the fact that you buy that means you have probably never heard a minute of his standup.

You will not be contacted by your crush, I don’t give a fuck how many people you annoy with gay stories.

No, a young girl was not killed by an axe murderer because she didn’t forward some gay story.

No, no one gives a fuck that you posted new pics, unless they involve compromising positions and a miniture donkey. If we cared we would be looking at your profile.

Direct hatemail to www. sigisfunny. com

Hugs and Kisses,
Sig

In for my friends list mysteriously getting a bit smaller.