I've got a new work laptop. It's an ASUS G2S. (Image courtesy of notebookreview.com)

The laptop is awesome, although it has some sort of weird power problem. At first, I was having lots of problems with windows Vista... audio popping, bad performance, video lagging, etc. But, after a bios update and reinstalling the INF update for the chipset, things are much better. The only thing left is this weird power problem, which may have been my problem all along.

The issue is that sometimes the audio popping and lagging and bad performance returns. The weird part is that if I unplug the power adapter and run off of batteries, everything runs great. Plug the power back in... horribly jumpy jerky performance again.

Power cycling with the power already plugged in seems to reduce the likelihood of this occurring. Once I get into Vista without the problems, I can go on and off of battery power all I want and things run great.

Labels: ASUS G2S, products, Vista

posted by Frankie @ 8:52 PM   0 Comments

Why does this make me depressed about our society?

http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/contentPage.jsp?assetId=P4110014

And the image at the top... geez... it makes me sick to my stomach.

Update 9/9/07: Well, they've changed the picture to be some young, childless people out watching a football game. But the picture _WAS_ a picture of a mom, dad, and kids, running out to the beach, with the dad holding his portable satellite TV system.

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posted by Frankie @ 8:40 PM   0 Comments

From time to time, I just like to plug what I believe is a great product. Today, it is the coleman stove.

What I love about the good ol' liquid fuel coleman stove is how much it hasn't changed since the late 40's. You can look at this page and see just how similar those outdoor stoves are to the new ones.

The one I particularly like is the Coleman duel-fuel stove. The reason I love it so much is beause it is an awesome camp stove, but also because the design is tried and true with replacement parts being highly available. The other thing that really makes it worth the money in my mind is beause of the capability to also run it on unleaded gasoline.

Why? Well, with the threat of hurricanes, terrorists, floods, whatever, everybody is looking into emergency preparedness. And by getting this thing as a camping item, you are also getting a great emergency item. Even if you don't have any coleman fuel, you can still siphon gas from a car or truck and cook, boil water, even use it as a heater.

I like mine. We really enjoyed it on our last camping trip.

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posted by Frankie @ 5:44 PM   1 Comments