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Paul's Time Sink
http://www.paulstimesink.com
Computer, Technology, Consumer Electronics and Gadget blog
- Added on: Sep 20th, 2004
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Paul Westbrook
- Listed in: Hardware Software Internet
- Tags: computer electronics links Games blogging General
Recent Posts
Windows Home Server recovery
For a while there has been an update to MyMovies that I have been meaning to install. On Saturday, I decided to do the upgrade. The first thing that I did was uninstall the old Windows Home Server add-on. The uninstallation appeared to go OK, a...
Windows Home Server user account tips
Over the Thanksgiving break, I helped my grandmother with some things with her computer. One of the problem is that on one of her new computers, her account name was spelled differently than it was on the Windows Home Server. This causes her to b...
Smart AC
A while ago, I received a letter from PG&E mentioning their Smart AC program. This program lets customers voluntarily let their air conditioning get throttled when there is a significant energy demand. The box that is installed on the compresso...
Upgrade ext3 to ext4
I was interested in upgrading my laptop’s hard drive to ext4 from ext3. Ext4 offers some features over ext3, and I figured that since I upraded to Kubuntu 9.10, I might as well upgrade the file system. This blog post describes the steps neede...
Skype video with Ubuntu 9.10
I had to reinstall Kubuntu, for a reason that I will write about later, so I needed to reinstall skype. When I downloaded and tried the 2.1 beta, I wasn’t able to get video to work. I was able to use the instructions on this page to get vid...
Netflix and Windows Media Center
For some reason, within the past couple of days Netflix streaming in our Vista Media Center stopped working. The interesting thing is that playback worked from the browser and from PlayOn, both from that computer. Nothing that I did solved the pr...
