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Archive for June, 2012

27
Jun

Goodbye nissan sentra

Well today i am getting rid of my 96′ nissan sentra and getting a 01′ hyundai elantra.  It has been a good ride with a-lot of good memories, like driving to florida to see the shuttle launch, or showing my gf how to change the oil not realizing that the storage container was full.  I will miss this car, but it’s time to get a car where i don’t have to question if it’s going to blow up or catch on fire while i drive from a leak in the gas tank.

12
Jun

[rant] Yay for car problems

Yesterday was one hell of a day, and I’m not talking about the 9.5 hour shift I worked.  It started off with my car not wanting to start, but eventually giving in and starting.  Then I noticed that my exhaust (or what I believe was my exhaust) being loud as hell, great way to start the morning before work.  Finally when leaving work I notice my car smells like gasoline, which was not a good sign.  I got home, jacked it up, I found that my gas tank is leaking, but can not find any problem with the exhaust.  Yay car problems.

4
Jun

How To: Deploy Awesome New Tab Page

As part of my job, I had to figure out a way to automate deploying the chrome plugin Awesome New Tab Page to computers we sold.  Now although this seems like a straightforward task, it really is not, at the time of writing this, there is no way to export your settings as far as how the layout and what each tile has.  However after much pain and suffering (and a few expletives) I was able to find a way to do it which works quite well, and I was able to write a quick script to do it.  However here are the steps I took to solve the problem (I will let you write a script on your own as mine is very system dependent). Read moreRead more

2
Jun

[Idea] Multiple OS’s at once using a general

Many people use virtual machines, or dual-boot their machines, however there are distinct disadvantages to each of these.  When you use a virtual machine, it is not able to take advantage of all the machines resources because it has to go through the virtualization software, because of this virtual machines are slower.  However the advantage to this is that you can easily go between the two operating systems.  Making it so that your computer can dual-boot makes it so that as it has the full processing power of the computer, however you need to reboot your computer if you want to use a different operating system.  However what if these weren’t your only choices?  During my shower this morning I had a sudden idea which I don’t have the knowledge to code, and may not be possible, but it seems like it would be.  What if you would run two operating systems at once, which could both take advantage of the hardware, and access each of them dynamically.  More on this idea