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Got it back today!….  Just in time for HALO3 It was not the same unit, the letter inside noted so. “Please accept this refurbished unit instead” Hopefully theres nothing wrong with it :-/

It’s pretty much downhill from here….

From the Associated Press:

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department on Thursday said Internet service providers should be allowed to charge a fee for priority Web traffic. The agency told the Federal Communications Commission, which is reviewing high-speed Internet practices, that it is opposed to “Net neutrality,” the principle that all Internet sites should be equally accessible to any Web user. Several phone and cable companies, such as AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp., have previously said they want the option to charge some users more money for loading certain content or Web sites faster than others.

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Whats labor day without some explosive fun!

—Attempt #1

—Attempt #2

Mostly Saving Money article on Vista

1. Turn off Windows Search Indexing

Windows Vista search indexing is constantly reviewing files on your system to make their contents available for quick searching. This is handy, but can severely impact system performance. To disable constant indexing:

• Click Start then Computer

• Right Click the C: Drive

• On General Tab, Uncheck Index this drive for faster searching

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Got the shipping box today from M$,

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I’ve been using Google hosted apps for a little over a year now and love it. All the power of Gmail just with the vanity of your domain name. Some of the features:

• Email
• Calendar
• Docs and spreadsheets
• Personalized start page
• Google talk integration
• Pop support
• Mobile access to mail and calendar

There are various enterprise upgrades (at a $50per user per year fee) that can migrate your mail servers, larger mailbox size, resource scheduling and domain integration.

My one gripe is I wish that Google would support IMAP, but that would probably prohibit one of Gmail’s best features, email threading. :-/

With all these now expansions coming out, I think Blizzard is only going to shoot them selves in the foot. For an existing user, who has a main and a couple of alts, has the bar being raised again and again. With the new expansion Wrath you can now level to 80. I cant imagine this would be very enticing for a new user. First you buy the game $39.99 then the Burning Crusade expansion $39.99 and now Wrath (most likely) $39.99 = $120. And I cant imagine what the “/played” time would be. The best grinders can do 1-60 in 6 days of playtime. I have lost total motivation to take my main past my current lvl @ 66. It would be interesting to see the new/current subscribers info.. I would be willing to wager that there is a decline.

If you have upgraded to WM6 on your dash you might have noticed, when you view video fullscreen, the video is turned 90 degrees (viewing a landscape video on you landscape screen in portrait)… OK WHY?

Well heres a fix:

• Open your favorite registry editor
• Add a new Key called “Rotation” under:
  • HKLM\System\GDI i.e.(HKLM\System\GDI\Rotaion)
• Then add this Dword “LandscapeMode” and set the value to “0 ” (zero)

Thats it your video will play just fine

I knew it was going to happen one of these days.

I was actually surprised how easily the I got through to Xbox tech support. From the time I picked up the phone to when they were sending me a shipping box was about 22 minutes for the hole call…. now just for the 4-6 weeks part

• Hold a watch with 12 o’clock at left.

• Move your arm so the hour hand points at the sun.

• The spot halfway between the hour hand and the 12 is south.