For all the weary googlers out there, this one is for you. I’ve recently installed Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn on my Dell Optiplex 745 Desktop which has a Dell 2407WFP Widescreen monitor plugged into it. During the LiveCD installation and afterwards, the best resolution I could get on the screen was 1600×1200@60 which isn’t bad, but looks slightly wider than it should given that in Windows XP & Vista (setup on different partitions) it displays [...]

Just a quick post on a topic that I found quite interesting.  Apparently Microsoft is working on software that will uniquely identify users based on their browsing habits.  It’ll watch what websites you visit, how long you stay, etc., but could also potentially start sifting through your history to see where you’ve already been. According to the article,  right now it can guess age and gender fairly well, but there are very high hopes for [...]

For those who read my blog, you’ve noticed I haven’t written for awhile.  Now that things are starting to settle down a bit following graduation and beginning a new job, I thought I’d venture back into the world of blogging. Now that I no longer have homework to do, my spare time has dramatically increased.  I spend more time at work than I ever spent at school, but the time is well spent and when [...]