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Dell Precision M45oo Review
Headline: I’m very happy! Details My wife gave her computer to a friend… Her needs were different from the capabilities of that computer. It was a nice computer – a tablet PC with 250 GB hard drive, but no battery life and fairly weak graphics and CPU performance. So she convinced me that I needed…
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My Desktop Gadgets Disappear
Headline: It seems that when the Dell Enhanced Power & Performance is used and you change to Ultra Performance (Max Fan Levels) it will shut down your desktop Gadgets. Switch back to something like “Cool (Reduced Temp Levels)” and they return! Enhanced Power & Performance On my Dell Precision M4500 I change environments quite a…
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Getting It Right the First Time
Just finished many hours of reading about .NET changes for 4.0… I was getting a bit tired and needed a change of pace, so I was listening to some music. As luck would have it, I heard two songs that were basically first takes. They were Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez and Wake Up…
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Apple Pie?
I had a link on my site for a long time to Redmond Pie. As you might imagine they were primarily covering Microsoft. Their tag line tonight is “Covering Microsoft, Google, Apple, and the web!” (Bold is theirs) As I do quite regularly I went to their site. Tonight it struck me that they don’t…
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IM–The New Caller ID
Headline: I’ve pretty much reached the point that if you want to call me, you had better IM (Instant Message) me first. I’m almost always online these days… and if I’m not, then I’m probably not in a position to talk on the phone. I’ve notice that increasingly phone calls are made immediately after IM’ing…
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…and the Agony of the Cheap
The Joy of Excellence, and the Agony of the Cheap Yes, this is a play on the old ABC Wide World of Sports slogan, “The thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat.” I probably should have used “The thrill of quality, and the agony of the cheap.” but my site isn’t called “ThrillOfQuality”. The…
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Reading a book on Kindle DX and Kindle for PC
Headline: Turn on synchronization for your devices, then develop the habit to “Close” the book each time by going to the Home page before you switch to the new other device. Details: I was going back and forth in a rather long book recently and was always struggling to remember where I left off. I…
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Induction for Cooking
Headline: Induction cooking is pricy, but really makes for a wonderful cooking experience. The trio that made our cooking life so nice includes: 1) Wolf cooktop, 2) Emeril cookware, and 3) Bar Keepers Friend. I realize this is an unusual post for me… But after all, the site is Joy of Excellence, and this certainly…