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- November 2, 2004
Computer Cooling
November 2, 2004Read more
My desktop PC, used primarily for production, started making a funny fan noise a couple days ago. Today, it emited an alarm noise on powerup. This usually means something bad, so I had to diagnose the problem.
It turns out that the CPU cooling fan was worn out. It’s only a year or so old, so it’s kind of irking. Today’s CPU’s need active cooling fans, so when they poop out you have a few seconds to shut down before they melt down. Fortunately, my motherboard detects these anomalies and shuts down. So I went down to CompUSA and got a new one:
Behold!
This is an “enthusiast” CPU cooler, with an adjustable knob you can mount on your PC to control the fan speed. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work very well with the fan speed detection circuitry on my motherboard. For $14, it was one of the cheaper Athlon coolers, and it certainly looked neat. So far temperatures seem acceptable…not amazingly low, but at least my computer isn’t beeping at me anymore.
- November 2, 2004
ViewLevel Plugin
November 2, 2004Read moreI was giving the ViewLevel plugin a try, but at first it was “no dice.”
The
$user_levelvariable wasn’t being set, or evaluated to 0. As it turned out, my WordPress URI settings were set back to the default “www.davidseah.com” address, but I usually login at “davidseah.com”. The cookies are different in each case, so my user level wasn’t being read. I must have accidentally reset it when explaining how it worked to someone setting up their own blog last week.So it seems to work great. I can now implement some private posts for friends, without having EVERYONE be able to see them.
- November 2, 2004
- November 1, 2004
TiddlyWiki
November 1, 2004Read moreI stumbled across vroop.com while reading a little about daring fireball, which is the website for John Gruber (the creator of Markdown). Two people who care about the way software works in an intuitive, use-aesthetic sense. On Vroop I read mention of TiddlyWiki, a client-side “Personal Web Notebook” based on the whole Wiki shared document concept.
TiddlyWiki looks like it might be the non-linear thought processing application that I’ve been looking for. I often write stream of consciousness style, defining terms and grouping things as I go along. Usually this is a somewhat tedious task, requiring many passes to refine the core ideas. But the organic and self-organizing properties of Wiki, with the ability to automatically define entities by mashing WordsTogetherLikeThis, could provide me a way of writing and organizing on-the-fly.
- October 31, 2004
Google Cheat Sheet
October 31, 2004Read moreThis is interesting… a concise cheat sheet for Google searching. I consider myself a pretty good search engine jockey, but there were several tricks that I wasn’t aware of, like date (searches within X months), define (shows definitions of a word found around the web), ~ (also searches for synonyms of the word, like ~car will find automobile, etc), and so forth. Via John Dowdell.
