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Tuesday, 11 March 2008 |
It came to my attention today that my link pages were not working properly. They are again. Please see and enjoy them! There are plenty of TechTV links, among many other subjects in there...hacking, Power Rangers, Super Sentai, and more!
-Matt
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
Well, since my last experiences with the HP support center, I have come to know that I will never again buy any of their products. That said, I have already been told to go away nicely when asking about Linux, have been told it would take $700 to replace my laptop's screen (did it myself for $200), and finally, today, I have a problem now that I have sent my laptop in for repair.
The wireless card went bad on my laptop, my dv9205us, and I sent it in. Free shipping all around, free repair. I was hoping I wouldn't have to restore the 40gb or so of data I had on the hard drive, but that isn't the case. I can deal with that though. Another big gripe is that my pc card slot wasn't assembled correctly, and I ended up having to dissassemble the laptop partially in order to fix it myself.
The final nail in the coffin is that my battery wasn't returned with the laptop. I sent it in, not thinking, as it was technically part of the laptop. Now, after contacting support again, I find that I will have to wait 2-3 days for a call from the manager, who will have to determine if I am telling the truth about the battery. He then should file a case to find my battery and ship it to me. This sucks. Not only do I have to reimage my hard drive partitions, and update Kubuntu (old backup copy), but I also have to wait probably close to another week to start using my laptop again. I'm a student, and while I as a geek have my backup laptop, I really want my good laptop back. So, looks like I'll have to wait for a long time until I have my baby back, and am stuck with my former baby until then...unless I want to plug in everywhere.
Don't get me wrong, the support representatives are as friendly and respectful as can be. I think it is more that the company policy coupled with actual technician incompetence is what is to blame here.
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
I am happy to announce that the Zen kernel has it's first "stable" (they have all pretty much been anyway) release! 2.6.24-zen1 incorporates the 2.6.24 Zen kernel with tons of enhancements that can only be discovered by compiling or simply trying the prebuilt kernel.
Click the menu to the left or go here to see the Zen Kernel page to download! Currently, Debian packages are available for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and the like, as well as Debian. RPM packages may come in the future. You WILL notice a drastic speed increase. Couple that with preload, and your system will fly!
Please note that many have difficulty running proprietary nVidia drivers with this kernel. If you can't build them, please post about it in the Ubuntuforums Zen thread. We're working on getting deb packages made to alleviate this problem, too.
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Friday, 25 January 2008 |
Every webmaster wants to make money off of their site somehow, which stands to reason. Webmasters, such as myself, tend to spend lots of time developing sites and writing quality content. It isn't any good if you can't eat, though. While adsense and affiliate marketing do a good job most of the time, there is a new way to monitize traffic: Pay Per Play audio ads. No ad is visible upon the site, but when a user is on the site for more than two seconds, a 5 second audio ad will play. Every three minutes, the user is greeted with another 5 second ad. Not very obtrusive. Every visitor will be putting money in your pocket, at rates likely around $0.02. With 100,000 hits, that isn't too bad!
To learn more, click here and sign up. Payouts and advertisments start in February.
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
This is my cat, Lilly...you can share this, just provide a link back to mattparnell.com...You can just copy and paste the code below the image to put it on your site or your MySpace, or whatever.
 Put this image on your site (must be linked): <a href="http://www.mattparnell.com"><img src="http://www.mattparnell.com/prcollection/firecat.jpg"></a>
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