Today while sitting in class I was thinking about the different ways that I prolong my battery life on my MacBook.  These ways basically come down to the brightness of my screen and what I am doing on my computer.
If I am on YouTube or some other Flash intensive sites, my battery will die very [...]

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I won’t bore you with my rants on how silly I think the FarmVille application on Facebook is because you undoubtedly found this post while looking for a way to block the application.
(Side note: This method mentioned here works for any Facebook application actually, not just FarmVille)
So here is how it works:
Visit the FarmVille homepage [...]

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In my network programming class we are learning about processes and signals.  We have just recently learned about fork bombs.  I thought I would just share a little of my findings with regards to this intriguing concept.
Basically a fork bomb is when you computer creates too many processes so that the operating system is not [...]

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Do you know what my favorite program of all time is? It is this little program called fortune that runs in the Unix shell. I have it set up so that whenever I open a new shell here at work I am greeted with a message from the fortune. Today, I half [...]

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Yesterday I was talking online after work, and all of a sudden I just got this urge to throw my computer against a wall. Was it broken? no. Was I angry? no. I just really didn’t want to stare at the screen any longer… so I went over to a friends place and we [...]

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