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Lay’s Stax vs Pringles

Posted on 2006/02/07 by richardykuo

For some reason, I like snacking on artificially formed potato crisps.  Yep, that’s right.  Is it not odd that they are called crisps instead of chips?  I suppose calling them potato chips is a crime that would get you arrested … Continue reading →

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Unwired and loving it

Posted on 2006/02/05 by richardykuo

After heading out to get some networking gear from Fry’s, I spent the earlier part of yesterday installing the goods. Let’s keep this short. It all pretty much works.  The wireless PCI cards from Airlink I bought seem to work … Continue reading →

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Politically incorrect moment

Posted on 2006/02/05 by richardykuo

After many entries into the Win a DocuPen RC800 contest, Rob Bushway has finally picked the winner of the contest.  Go ahead and read the winning entry. I have to say that I’m a bit puzzled by his choice.  Keep … Continue reading →

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Do we need network drivers any more?

Posted on 2006/02/03 by richardykuo

On our way back from Fry’s, I was musing upon the installation I was going to have to do with this new networking equipment.   So I had to ask the million dollar question…why do we need special drivers for … Continue reading →

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More wireless networking fun

Posted on 2006/02/03 by richardykuo

I recently got a Roomba, on account of the fact that…well, let’s just say I don’t clean up as often as I should.  I’ll write up a full posting later on that, but in the mean time, I’ll simply mention … Continue reading →

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Obscenities are still words

Posted on 2006/02/02 by richardykuo

Interestingly, there’s a blog post from Frank La Vigne describing how a list of approximately 3000 words known as obscenities won’t be shown as potential choices to the user. I wonder if this applies to the actual handwriting recognition.  I … Continue reading →

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Linksys SRX400 – So far, so good

Posted on 2006/01/30 by richardykuo

Last Friday, I took my M200 over to the lounge to watch the Sci-Fi Channel while I did some work.  It turned out to be a most unpleasant experience. In the past, our wireless configuration in our office has been … Continue reading →

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Toshiba M200 now at 60GB

Posted on 2006/01/29 by richardykuo

Not exactly a banner day for the Internet, but not a bad day over here at rkuo.com.  The 60GB Hitachi Travelstar now in my Tablet PC is, in fact, close to as quiet as the old 40GB Travelstar and way … Continue reading →

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Noisy notebook drives

Posted on 2006/01/29 by richardykuo

Since I’m not using the Inspiron 9100 much any more and eventually plan on selling it, I decided to swap one of the hard drives from the Inspiron into the Toshiba M200.  The drive in the M200 is only 40GB … Continue reading →

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How to make downloading a pain in the butt

Posted on 2006/01/27 by richardykuo

I ran across some videos about Atlas, an AJAX framework for ASP.NET 2.0, that I wanted to watch since we’re planning on making some use of this stuff in future development at SnapStream.  I wanted to download these videos. I’m … Continue reading →

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