Comics
Are you a one percenter?
If you make more than 383,001 US dollars per year you are in the top 1% of income in the USA. Should you feel more guilty than someone making 40K$ per year? You are a 1 percenter! You may want to note if you make more than 32,000 dollars per year you are in the top 1 percent of world income. You are a 1 percenter! Go ahead now and show me what a good liberal you are and give until it hurts;
Math
Software: LyX document processor that renders LatEx
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Links
- LyX – Main page
- LyX Instant Preview
- Lyx Download – Choose the big bundle ~200Mb – perhaps you will not have to install Python & Elyxer on your own as I did.
- Python I had to add Python & Elyxer
- Elyxer download
- LyxBlogger – plugin to Lyx that is supposed to upload to your blog. I tried it and it did not work. I am corresponding with the author hoping to push a solution whether it is me or the software.
Once upon a time in a galaxy called Ooc there lived a computer named R.J. Drofnats- or "R. J." as he preferred to be called-was happiest when hewas ate work typesetting beautiful documents.
Drofnats is Stanford backwards.
Puzzle
Oobiedude NYC Jigsaw Puzzle
Ok I was a moron. I wasted much time doing this puzzle. Why are they so addicting?
Computing
Hupigon Backdoor Development kit
Ever wonder how the idiotic virus writers do their thing? See this page on the Hupigon Backdoor Development kit
Computing
Upgrade from Gx620 to Gx755 Notes
- Dell Service Tag LookUp Page here
- Dell Gx755 drivers here
- Onboard video driver update went smoothly. Intel brand.
- Ethernet wired driver update went smoothly. Intel brand.
- Did the 1 of the 3 chipset drivers listed on the drivers page: R174616.exe
- After trying to auto search a driver update the Dell infinite reboot cycle manifested. I placed an XP disk in CD and booted from that but that appeared to accomplish nothing. Started booting to HD normally afterwards. Do I need to change product code?
- DVD / CD ROM would not show up under windows even though BIOS shows it. Used this solution and it started working with windows. Performed manually because the FixMe tool appears to want to coerce you into using Windows Genuine Advantage and I do not know if I need to install a new product code yet.
- Next I attacked "pci simple communications controller" question mark in the device manager. Googling PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_293E&SUBSYS_02111028&REV_02\3&172E68DD&0&D8 I found that it is the "Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio" which must have not been installed. First I downloaded the Dell Audio driver which ran and said the UAA was not installed. After this the PCI Device question mark turned into "Audio device on high definition audio bus". I found an article on installing the UAA here. This article then steered me to the driver on the hp site for the UAA. After running the Dell / Analog Devices driver the { PCI Device / "Audio device on high definition audio bus" } question mark went away. Also audio started working.
- At this point "pci simple communications controller" is the only remaining question mark. Googled "pci simple communications controller" and found this page about fixing this issue. It said I needed to do all 3 chipset drivers. However I only did Intel_AMT-HECI_A02_R255437.exe and the last question mark dissappeared.
Remaining Items
- Video card install > Appears to have died. A little coincidental. Will try later with another box.
- Does the box need to have a new Win XP product code?
Video
Video: Something Ventured – A history of venture capital
Very interesting film about the history of venture capital. It all started with some guys working issues on the side. An amazing history of interest to anyone who wants to start their own company.
From the webpage summary
Official selection of the 2011 San Francisco International Film Festival.
Conceived by co-executive producer Paul Holland and directed by Emmy Award winning filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, SOMETHING VENTURED tells the story of the creation of an industry that went on to become the single greatest engine of innovation and economic growth in the twentieth century. It is told by the visionary risk-takers who dared to make it happen: Tom Perkins, Don Valentine, Arthur Rock, Dick Kramlich and others. The film also includes some of our finest entrepreneurs sharing how they worked with these venture capitalists to grow world-class companies like Intel, Apple, Cisco, Atari, Genentech, Tandem and others. Beginning in the late 1950s, this small group of high rollers fostered a one-of-a-kind business culture that encouraged extraordinary risk and made possible unprecedented rewards. They laid the groundwork for America's start-up economy, providing not just the capital but the guidance to allow seedling companies to reach their full potential. Our lives would be dramatically different without the contributions that these venture capitalists made to the creation of PCs, the Internet and life-saving drugs.