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…
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…
Kernel Panics With New Crucial RAM
I never have had much luck with RAM. It seems for all of the computers I have built I would always get at least one bad stick in every batch and this one was no different. After installing the new 4GB of Crucial RAM last week I started getting kernel panics. One of the most…
Upgrading Excalibur (my MacBook Pro)
I told myself that the 17″ MacBook Pro I bought last June, nicknamed Excalibur, would have to last me for at least 3 years until I get out of college. 10 months later and I’m already getting jittery because I haven’t gotten my semi-annual dosage of new computer toy. To appease the raging desire to…