Archive for January, 2009

Retro - Rubix Cube

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Well, there is now a “cube cheater” app for the iphone that will show you how to solve the Rubix Cube. You just enter in the state of the cube, and it will tell you how to solve it. Ok, I used to be able to solve these things back in the 7th grade, and […]

Tech Tip #2

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

My office computer recently got upgraded. It is now running Windows Vista 64bit as it has 8Gig of ram in it (32-bit can’t make use of more than 4Gig of ram). Why so much memory? For running VM’s mainly (lots of test environments, etc).
Well, I was back to working on a program that uses […]

Tech Tip

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Today, like many, I was trying to watch the inaguration while at work. The campus has some TV channels that you can watch over the network using multicast. For some reason, I wasn’t able to make it work on my office computers. I tracked the problem down to having VMWare Workstation installed. It […]

Cold and no power

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Well, the building I work in has a number of scheduled power outages over the next month or two. One is tonight - the coldest night of the year so far. Those of us with plants in our offices have moved them out into an interior room with no windows. With no power - […]