Author Archives: Nick

Memory Errors

By Nick | Published: 25.06.2010
This article gives a cool look into what happens when just one bit is flipped, and how to trace it. The author really wants to accuse cosmic radiation, but I’d be more inclined to blame manufacturing processes and/or other environmental conditions before that.
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Facebook & Privacy

By Nick | Published: 28.05.2010
Facebook is a private company. It’s top priority is monetizing your usage of Facebook.com. So, and this doesn’t take a genius to figure out, it is tracking all that you do, collecting as much data as possible, and selling it. If you don’t like Facebook’s privacy practices, go ahead and complain. But it shouldn’t result [...]
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Spring Semester Over

By Nick | Published: 27.05.2010
I passed Calculus, finally. I also passed Physics, where oddly, on all three tests I received exactly an 80. I would say that I got an 80 on the final, except that it was extremely easy. In the meantime I’ve been doing a little work around the house and on the car, and I’ve also [...]
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Shut Up You Moron

By Nick | Published: 27.04.2010
OMG MY KID GOT AUTISM BECAUSE HE GOT SHOTS BEFORE OMG OMG I SAW A UTUBE VID THAT PROVES THE VACCINE CAUSED IT, LOOK IM JENY MCCHARTHY I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE IM FAMOUS
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Now Just Get It Off The Coins

By Nick | Published: 16.04.2010
The Government sanctioned National Day Of Prayer has been Government un-sanctioned. This is good because it should have never been a recognized day to begin with. Of course, the Religious Right will call this a personal attack on their faith, despite that the Day was held as non-denominational, religion-unspecific. That and there’s nothing holding them, [...]
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Sexual Education

By Nick | Published: 07.04.2010
This guy is nuts. In Wisconsin, a new law’s coming in to effect that would properly educate teenagers about condoms, contraceptives, and other sex stuff. All the Republicans have jumped on their usual bandwagon, especially the fanatical evangelical DA: “Forcing our schools to instruct children on how to utilize contraceptives encourages our children to engage [...]
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BLOZUP.COM

By Nick | Published: 06.04.2010
Has been revitalized, yet again. Take a look.
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America, Right Or Wrong!

By Nick | Published: 05.04.2010
Just kidding! Why is it that the demographic that’s most for small government, and more importantly, not trusting trust your government, would be first (I’m betting) to defend this. Fear your government, including the Republicans. Or, at least your military. Yeah! Go Team! U, S, A! U, S, A! We are awesome. I’m proud to be [...]
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Corsair H50

By Nick | Published: 05.04.2010
Wow. This thing works. And it’s so simple. My GF/Fiance/Wife’s supercomputer (Core i7, DDR3, GTX 260), had a little running hot problem. I decided to buy a Corsair H50 water cooling kit at Fry’s, and try it out. The reviews on NewEgg were all great. I discovered however, that her case doesn’t have a spot [...]
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My RAID Stillbirth

By Nick | Published: 01.04.2010
I attempted to construct a 5 disk RAID-5 on the in-house supercomputer (a Core i7), but I ran into a problem. One of the disks was screeching like mad. It sounded like something was scraping the platters… It was somewhat amusing. As soon as I had built the array, and restarted, the noise came on [...]
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