Video Swap

I pulled my 6800 GT video card this evening and replaced it with a wee little FX 5200 (I heard those snickers!). I noticed 3 things:

The noise level in my office dropped dramatically.
The case and CPU temps dropped dramatically.
- but -
This odd LCD flicker that I thought was caused by an overheating 6800 remains.

Curses. My

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Tech Link Train – I’m on the Tracks

ReviewSaurus tagged me on the latest link driving effort: The Tech Link Train. I often tend to let these slide by, but since I picked up a few new daily readers out of the list, I’ll play along. I had a hard time settling on just 5 to add, but I believe

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TechCrunch – What the heck…

I’m one of the many thousands of folks subsribed to TechCrunch’s RSS feeds. As a rule of thumb, this has been a “go to” site for all things related to Web 2.0 (regardless of how you define it). Which is good, it matches the “about” statement:

TechCrunch profiles and reviews new web 2.0 products and companies.

Last

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Batting .000

Struck out twice in the last few days for two clients. Man… humbling, to be sure.

First one wasn’t all that surprising. In fact, I cautioned them that I’d probably not get too far. The issue? A laptop with a very loud cooling fan. Typically, when you start getting fan noise

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Pageflakes and WTF 2.0

Saw great news posted on a Pageflake’s blog today:

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Speaking of RSS feeds, we know that the current way to read feeds on Pageflakes is not too convenient, and not everyone’s cup of tea. We’re working hard to bring you a real RSS reader ASAP. Omar has developed an RSS aggregator before so he knows a

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