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Home Theater

September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Much has changed in the five (!!!) years since I bought my last home theater components, so here’s an update on all the major pieces:
Amplifiers
Way back when the thing was to get a big gigantic amplifier. Personally, I tended to a compact AVR and then having amplifiers in the speakers. So I ended up with [...]

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Soccer registration

August 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Ok somehow I’m Noe a soccer registrar so here ate notes ok how to do it. Assuming you use Bonzi which is a soccer club manager. It’s a remarkable database with a terrible interface (and it’s Windows only).
In Bonzi there are four important concepts to understand otherwise you’ll never figure any of it out:

League. Every [...]

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Realtek Reverb

July 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I don’t know how my Dad’s computer got this, but its an old PC with a 2003 (!!!) Realtek driver and a terrible reverb/echo. google:”Realtek reverb” revealed a very smart person saying to look in the Control Panel for the Realtek audio control and change “environment” to none. It was set on default which was [...]

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ASUS M3p

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments · ASUS M3p, Calvin

Dad gave me an old laptop to use. It is from 2004! So it needs lots of updating. First up is to get:

Java. So that I can write programs
Dr. Java. Which is a simple editor and program
Intel 2200 BG. I couldn’t connect to Apple’s latest Time Capsule and my drivers haven’t been in updated in [...]

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