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The other day, after Hulu released support for the Chromecast on their app, I retired my Apple TV in favor of the Google Chromecast. Google Chromecast is better because you can control the Chromecast from the your mobile devices and tablets without using a remote like the Apple TV. Google Chromecast is also supported on… Continue reading Google Chromecast vs Apple TV

Apple has a special place in my heart because I really appreciate good design, attention to detail, and usability. But iOS7 looks like shit, works like shit, and Steve Jobs is rolling in his grave right now because of how bad iOS7 is.

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I had a package sent to my PO BOX. The sender used FedEx. I never gave the sender my physical address. Some how fedex managed to get my physical address and send the package to it instead of the PO BOX. How did they do this. What kind of magic are they using. I thought… Continue reading How did fedex know where I live

This is too big of a topic for me to not comment on. It seems that within the last month, I can not visit any of my typical news outlet without hearing a 99.9% rejection of military intervention. This has happened before. And last time I am on the record for saying that, although I… Continue reading War on Syria

I was trying to remote desktop to my Windows machine, but it kept spinning and would not allow me to connect. On the Microsoft website, they said Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 is not supported by RDC. However, it does work. After several minutes of frustratingly googling around, here is the answer: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3234768?start=15&tstart=0 Close Remote… Continue reading Remote Desktop Connection Mac and Windows 7 connection problems

I just spent a good amount of time trying to get my headless ubuntu litecoin miner to work. There are several great tutorials out there: http://decryption.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/mining-litecoin-with-cgminer-ubuntu-12-10/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gw7YPYgMgNNU42skibULbJJUx_suP_CpjSEdSi8_z9U But it would have saved me a lot of time if they were more concise and left out all the unnecessary stuff. So here is my attempt at… Continue reading Litecoin or Bitcoin: Ubuntu Cgminer install

Today I took a USB stick with ubuntu installed on it from an ASRock AMD motherboard and stuck it into a Gigabyte Intel motherboard and it booted up without trouble. This is freaking amazing.

I don’t normally get this excited about a piece of technology, but this Edimax nano router is freaking awesome. You can’t really appreciate how tiny this thing is from the picture, but trust me, it’s the smallest router you’ve ever seen. It’s smaller than the cable that powers it, and the ethernet cable you attach… Continue reading Edimax BR-6258n Wireless Nano Router

That’s what this one lady on forum said in response to a guy who said obesity is a choice. I thought it was a very interesting comment because she made the argument that societal effects trumps free-will. This argument speaks to me because I have always believed that the libertarian types wrongly underestimate the impact… Continue reading If I know your zipcode, I can predict your BMI