Ron Paul Liberty Billboard

Politics — Titus Barik on November 28, 2007 at 6:04 pm

Cade Thacker is raising money for a Ron Paul billboard in Atlanta:

Over 250,000 people will see this per day. We have 3 different locations we are scouting on the Cobb I-75 parking lot between 575 and 285, but depending on how quickly we can raise the money will depend on which option is available to us.

Take a look at the Liberty Billboard and donate if you can.

This is being done purely through Atlanta locals without the approval of the Official Ron Paul Campaign.

WordPress Negative Comment Count

Uncategorized — Titus Barik on November 26, 2007 at 7:47 pm

I noticed that a lot of my older posts had a comment count of one, even though there were no comments associated with that post in the database. On closer inspection, I found that the comment_count field in WordPress for table wp_posts actually had negative numbers for these very posts. I have no idea how this transpired, but it was easily fixed with the following query:

UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_count = 0 
WHERE comment_count < 0

Update: Of course, I now have incorrect comment counts on certain posts, so I need to find a fix for this as well.

Mozy Backup Configuration Changes

Uncategorized — Titus Barik on November 9, 2007 at 10:35 am

From the default Mozy backup sets, make the following changes:

  • For My Documents, add the AppData folder. Exclude the file desktop.ini so that it is not included in the backup set.
  • Under Photos and Images, unselect the Desktop for consideration in the backup set.

Software Needing Reinstallation

Uncategorized — Titus Barik on November 9, 2007 at 9:41 am

On a new installation of Windows, there’s a lot of software that I need to reinstall. This entry is designed to save me some time.

Items available for download over the Internet:

Items available on local media:

  • AutoDesk AutoCAD 2008 Electrical
  • Adobe Acrobat Professional 8
  • Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007
  • Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007. License.
  • PTC MathCAD 14
  • MathWorks MATLAB 2007b

Remember, Remember the 5th of November

Politics — Titus Barik on November 5, 2007 at 8:04 pm

From LewRockwell: Americans are looking to turn on its head the English celebration of the foiled Gunpowder Plot on Guy Fawkes Night, as a goal to make the largest political donation event in history for one of the greatest anti-statist candidates in history.

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Today is the day. Ron Paul 2008.

Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe CHIP Fan Failure

Uncategorized — Titus Barik on November 3, 2007 at 10:30 am

The Northbridge chipset fan has stopped functioning on my Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe. On system startup, the BIOS presents the following message:

*** Warning:Your Computer CHIP Fan Fail or speed too low***
    You can also disable this warning message in SETUP

While the motherboard is under warranty, forum discussions indicate that even the replacement fan is likely to fail. A recommended solution is to instead install the Zalman NB47J, which is passively cooled and has no moving parts. It is listed as $4.99 on Newegg.

If you still want to replace the original faulty part from Asus, see the following e-mail:

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for your support of our products!

If you are in the USA or Canada, please call our RMA department at 510-739-3777 option 3. Please have your motherboard’s serial number handy when you call. You can also send an e-mail to:

RMA@asus.com

Please include your name, mailing address, daytime telephone number, your motherboard’s model number and serial number. Please type “Northbridge Fan” as the subject of the message.

Best Regards,

ASUS Technical Support

Be forewarned, however, that Asus technical support is not the greatest and it may not be worth your time or effort.

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