David Peralty over at GeeksAreSexy has a nifty how to for making a wireless adapter for your Xbox 360.
Parts Needed:
- Xbox 360, any version
- Three Feet or more of Cat 5e Cable (Ethernet Cable)
- Wireless Router
- DD-WRT firmware
It’s pretty simple looking, full details can be found here.
While it may not be the companies themselves that are complete morons and rather their employees, they still hired them and should be held responsible.
CBC Marketplace conducted a sting of 10 different computer companies and found that only three of them correctly diagnosed the problem.
In the interview a former employee of a large computer repair company states that they were always encouraged to sell upgrades, I used to work for a local computer repair company, and I can vouch for this… my boss wanted me to “up sell” every appointment by $200… which is ridiculous when their problem is as simple as plugging their computer back in, or disabling a startup item. He even went as far as to recommend that if I fixed the problem in under in hour, that I should continue to pretend the problem was still their until after the second hour started (since his company billed for an hour even if you were only 15 minutes into the hour). Needless to say, I didn’t work there long.
Video and link after the jump…
Wait, did you hear that noise? That was the sound of the wheels falling off for a couple teams. The Rams might as well mail the rest of the season in. Their whole offensive line is hurt, their RB is out, and now the QB is going to join him. I thought Buffalo would be the best bet to go winless this year, but St. Louis just keeps finding ways to fall further apart.
I can’t believe I beat Aaron to a post that is even remotely related to coffee, but I found this to be somewhat interesting. Check out this article on how to Cheat on the Need to Sleep
Scientists say that a successful midday nap depends on two things: timing and (no kidding) caffeine consumption. Experiments performed at Loughborough University in the UK showed that the sleep-deprived need only a cup of coffee and 15 minutes of shut-eye to feel amazingly refreshed.
1. Right before you crash, down a cup of java. The caffeine has to travel through your gastro-intestinal tract, giving you time to nap before it kicks in.
2. Close your eyes and relax. Even if you only doze, you’ll get what’s known as effective microsleep, or momentary lapses of wakefulness.
3. Limit your nap to 15 minutes. A half hour can lead to sleep inertia, or the spinning down of the brain’s prefrontal cortex, which handles functions like judgment. This gray matter can take 30 minutes to reboot.
And that’s not all, there’s some stuff in the article that I never had really thought about before. Not saying it’s guaranteed to work, but it’s worth a shot, right?
The Dow closed at 14,087.55 today, which is a smashing start to the month of October. But will it stay above 14,000 for long? I highly doubt it. Even if you don’t follow the market you’ll probably remember the buzz the Dow generated when it touched on 14,000 briefly in July, only to drop below 13,000 during August. And now the housing market is in shambles, banks are facing huge declines in earnings, and we’re quickly approaching the 20th anniversary of the market crash of 1987.
Interestingly, on the day that investors are celebrating the surging Dow, people are remembering the 20th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash. People, though, shouldn’t avoid the markets just because times are uncertain. MarketWatch points out that “$10,000 invested in the Dow on Friday, Oct. 16, the last trading day before the crash, and held until the present would still have more than quintupled.”
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in an interview that there was less than a 50-50 chance that the US economy would slip into a recession, he also believes that the current credit slump may be ending.
Is the worst behind us, or is it yet to come? Thoughts, anyone?