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A Windows user’s first four days with a Mac

On Friday, I received my iMac, bringing me back to the world of the Mac OS for the first time in about eight years. The iMac is not my main rig — I still use a “Wintel” PC running Windows XP for work — it’s a replacement for my home computer (though I eventually hope [...]

Posted 06 February 2008 § Personal ‡ Comments (7)

Forgot your Windows product key? It is recoverable…

I frequently rebuild my computer once Windows starts to reach its half-life, formatting the ‘ol hard drive and starting from scratch. Unfortunately, this typically involves a hunt for the Windows XP product key, which typically was written down on a piece of paper and subsequently misplaced. This time, however, I decided not to hunt for [...]

Posted 13 September 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (3)

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I’ve been looking at the following window for about ten minutes, during which time it has gone unchanged.

It didn’t go away until I shut down Firefox. Go figure.
And just for the record, I don’t blame ReSharper for this one — I blame the Windows installer.

var addthis_pub = ‘bdemarzo’;
var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = [...]

Posted 05 June 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1)

Installing Ubuntu with VirtualPC

For those of you who come to my site looking for help installing Linux on VirtualPC (quite a few, as it is the second most popular post on this site), you’ll know that the big problem revolves around VirtualPC only supporting 16-bit color and most Linux distributions supporting 24-bit color by default. (Why this limitation [...]

Posted 12 March 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)

On disk space and defragmentation

My online baseball game, CSFBL, is a data hog to the tune of about 100GB. Yes, 100GB. That’s how much disk space it takes to store the play-by-play results of some 5 million baseball games (over 2,500 seasons) along with the related player data, historical statisics, and other fun stuff.
The server that powers this beast [...]

Posted 07 November 2006 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)