Category: computers
02/02/09 09:15 - 25ºF - ID#47598
ASUS EEE PC
They have also done ton for linux by making it available to more people. According to wikipedia it can run a multitude of linux distros, windows XP and even OS X!
Devices like this have lowered the entry cost of college in a way. Remember when a laptop was like $1500-2000 even for a non-fancy one.
It has multitouch gestures and the newer models coming out even have touch screens. I think at some point I am going to want one.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: estrip
02/01/09 09:43 - 32ºF - ID#47595
Buffalo's Original Green Publication
I love how Buffalo Rising is now pretending that being green was a motivating factor in giving up their print publication. I think failed business model and inability to see the obvious death of print was more likely.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
02/01/09 04:53 - ID#47593
Smelts at Kosta's
Totally unrelated, the point of this post was that in addition to fresh octopus, Kostas has smelts. I have not seen smelts on the menu anywhere else - let alone on a bed of dandelion with lemon. I would get it if I could say no to octopus.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
01/31/09 11:20 - 23ºF - ID#47587
Cinnamon Sticks at Guercio's
Guercio's price for cinnamon sticks
Wegman's price for the cheap brand
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: linwood
01/31/09 11:17 - ID#47579
Parking at dance camp on linwood
Then someone got out of the passenger seat. Then that person walked
around and let more children out the otherside. The entire time they
were parked diagnal across the driveway and in the middle of the
street. It's the worst possible combo as it stops all traffic on
linwood and blocks the driveway.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/30/09 11:33 - ID#47573
Macbook pro dead pixels
Seeing as one whole row is dead now, I have at least 900 of them.
It's under AppleCare and it can get fixed but seriously, I don't have
the time to not have a comp and this is the second time the laptop has
had a hardware failure. I know that I use it quite hard but going to
the applestore and giving up my comp for the weekend is not convenient.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
01/29/09 09:56 - 18ºF - ID#47554
More mercury - high fructose corn syrup
Luckily, I don't very much of that on the diet I eat, but it is in pretty much all sweetend, processed junk food and soda.
Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury
MONDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to two new U.S. studies.
HFCS has replaced sugar as the sweetener in many beverages and foods such as breads, cereals, breakfast bars, lunch meats, yogurts, soups and condiments. On average, Americans consume about 12 teaspoons per day of HFCS, but teens and other high consumers can take in 80 percent more HFCS than average.
"Mercury is toxic in all its forms. Given how much high-fructose corn syrup is consumed by children, it could be a significant additional source of mercury never before considered. We are calling for immediate changes by industry and the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] to help stop this avoidable mercury contamination of the food supply," the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Dr. David Wallinga, a co-author of both studies, said in a prepared statement.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/28/09 11:57 - ID#47551
Safer non-stick
At wegman's the other day, I saw these cuisinart non-toxic, non-stick
pans. They are so smoothly non stick. I wonder if they are really
safe.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/28/09 09:56 - ID#47540
Whip cream obsession
I think I have almost perfected my whip cream dessert with the
addition of Sicilian blood orange. I missed the merengue base of the
previous iteration as my beaters are not strong enough to make it ;(
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/25/09 02:38 - ID#47517
Concerned about peanut butter?
I sure am concerned, but Wegman's has a sign saying theirs in not
implicated in the recall - yet. I hope so because I am sure any food
born illness would kill me.
On an unrelated note, they now also have grass fed, organic, NY strip
steaks for about $6-$7 each.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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The Xandros Linux Easy Mode is ok but asus should be ashamed of themselves for shipping this model as configured. Because of the unionfs, there is not enough drive space to install the updates that Xandros's updater forces on you. Firefox 3 is especially problematic since it also requires some lib files to be upgraded.
There is a workaround (this is Linux after all) that gets rid of the unionfs and merges two smaller partitions to make one larger partition. It can be found at :::link:::
After doing that, I can say that the eee 900a is decent wee netbook and the Xandros Linux is ok. I plan on putting some other distro on it at some point in the future.
btw, I'm writing this on the eee.