Vista fixes 08

I finally upgraded to vista a few weeks back and here are some helpful things I found.

By default vista didn't want to accept that my monitor could do 1280x1024@60Hz and some googling led to this post on the hardforums, unfortunately the fix is specific to nvidia.

I also had to move my router downstairs (cheapest way to get brother's xbox online) and use a wireless adapter on my main computer. needless to say this led to some serious lag spikes in videogames. The problem has been around since xp and the solution was to disable the wireless zeroconf service; the vista service is called wlan autoconfig which works. I also noticed people mentioning a program called vista anti lag written by some german guy whose site is down, I did find it on some german freeware site I never heard of though and it seems to work well. To get the program to work you have to disable your wireless card, then start the program, and then enable the wireless card.

On a completely different note I was watching Necessary Roughness on the tv and I noticed something funny. In the movie the football team of the, at the time fictional, Texas state plays their first game against Southwest; which through the hilarious vagaries of time is now known as Texas State.

Why UH was not invited to the BigXII

Every time John McClain mentions Baylor on his blog there are scores of UH fans who ignorantly claim that UH should have been in the Big12 instead of Baylor. Allow me to quickly explain why UH was not invited to the Big12.

football	Baylor	Houston
1990	6-4-1	10-1
1991	8-4	4-7
1992	7-5	4-7
1993	5-6	1-9-1
1994	7-5	1-10
1995	7-4	2-9
total	40-28-1	22-43-1

Algorithm For A Modern Artist

I realize that on a certain level the point of art is to elicit emotions. There is a line, however, and this jerk crossed it. I am no great student of art or art history, but from casual observation most art seems to follow certain patterns. Art seems to be almost structured, and I believe I have derived the algorithm which will produce what is today considered art.

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

int main () {
char c, str[256];
ifstream is;

cout << "Enter the name of an existing controversial topic: ";
cin.get (str,256);

is.open (str);  // open controversy

while (is.good()) // loop while profit from controversy is possible
{
c = is.get();  // get money from controversy
cout << c;
}

is.close();  // controversy dropped
return 0;        
}

I Suck at Fantasy Baseball

That is all.

California To Citizens: All Your Thermostats Are Belong To Us!

A while back I made this new flag for California as a joke, but the people of the golden state are bound and determined to make me into a prophet. First they passed some ass backwards electricity deregulation that forbade the company that sold the electricity to generate the electricity, which led to the oh so famous rolling blackouts. Now these jokers are trying to take control of people's thermostats; tacitly castrating the male population of California. Ever since the invention of air conditioning it has been the man's job to control the thermostat in his home with an iron fist and a steel will against mother and children who would heedlessly alter the perfection of the home environment.

If you live in California and want the testicles of your state to remain in their respective scrotum's tell Ivan nyet!

If the Factory Didn't Put Speedholes on Your Car, It Doesn't Need Them.

I don't know if this happens elsewhere, but in Waco every jackass with $20 sticks those stupid Buick portholes on their cars. its just as annoying as putting fake chrome on your car with the added benefit of telling everyone that you can't even afford a Buick.

The Cake Is A Lie

Someone Has Been in My Cupboard

Every day there is less and less peanut butter in the peanut butter jar and I blame Hillary Clinton. It is a vast left wing conspiracy and if she becomes president she will probably move my cheese too. Vote republican; not because you like republicans, but because you dislike democrats and their socialist european overlords.

Where Have all the Benchmarks Gone?

do dodo dodo do... Seven years ago you couldn't go five minutes on the internet without reading a benchmark shootout of the latest video cards, the latest motherboards, the best cases, the best power supplies, or the best heat sinks. Today benchmarks for video cards and motherboards are few and far between and benchmarks of other computer components are all but non existent. A quick survey of sites I have frequented since the late nineties has confirmed this situation, with the exception of anandtech most of my old and trusted hardware sites seem stagnant in the hardware review/benchmark department. How am I to get my geek on if I can't find info on how the latest 120mm fan affects my quake3 performance.

PETA Endorses Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence
n. Violence toward or physical abuse of one's spouse or domestic partner.
American Heritage Dictionary





What you see is a screen capture from a game created by PETA in order turn people off of KFC. Now there are some conclusions that I have drawn from this image.

1. PETA wishes to continue the negative racial stereotype that white people don't like fried chicken.
2. PETA endorses domestic violence against one's significant other or in this case one's rescuer.
3. PETA doesn't consider humans animals and therefore doesn't believe the widely accepted theory of evolution.

Feel free to draw your own conclusions, but as a white man who loves fried chicken I find number one terribly insensitive and offensive.