One of my classes last year required us to get a Wall Street Journal subscription and write reports on certain articles. As a result, I came to enjoy the paper immensely. My enjoyment did not extend towards paying the student rate of $30 every 15 weeks though. I recently discovered that the Wall Street Journal…
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How To’s and other guides.
How To: Setup a Dedicated Proxy Server for a Nintendo Wii
This is sort of a continuation of my previous post about getting around a college firewall but with the intent of getting the Nintendo Wii online. The Wii expects a regular HTTP proxy, so the SOCKS based one that I used for my YouTube fix won’t work. I chose the easiest solution based on the…
Getting Around a College Firewall and Bandwidth Throttling
My college, like most others across America employ a restrictive firewall and limit bandwidth for certain file transfers. YouTube in particular is severely limited on my campus making viewing virtually impossible on weekends and painfully slow any other time. Fortunately though, I learned a little more about the network setup and how they prioritize different…
iTunes Transcoding Lossless to AAC Workflow
My iTunes library is massive (when compared to the capacity of an 80GB iPod). Nearly all of my songs are in Apple Lossless so as you can imagine, it is not hard to have more songs than my iPod will hold in the lossless format. Being familiar with other media managers, I expected to be…