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Last post Sept, 2009? Sheesh

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After chiding someone about revealing too much on the Internet, I decided to do a search of one of my online names + my first name and this site was 3rd on the list of resutls. I guess I'm not very good with my privacy either.

Anyway, this website is so outdated because I use this domain more for internal development. In password secured subfolders of this domain I have a bunch of stuff I've been working on. The last few months I have been learning PHP coding, mySQL databases and most recently, Japanese! I only know about 75% of the Hiranga characters so far and a handfull of words. Why I chose Japanese over Chinese? ( in the bay area learning Mandarin could really pay off!!), well I love video games and always wanted to be able to play imports. Also I hate the exaggerated voices used in dubbed anime and would rather hear the Japanese dialog.

 

Fred's Library Book Reading #1

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How We Decide - CoverRecently we've discovered the joys of the Santa Clara County Library system. Instead of hanging out at Barnes & Noble or Borders, we've realized that all of the same titles that can be found at those trendy book stores can also be found at the local Library. Here I will update on a regular basis what book I'm currently reading or have recently finished.

The first book I selected to start reading from the county library is "How we Decide" by Johan Lehrer.

The book was recommended by ex-Games for Windows editor Shawn Elliott on the GFW Radio podcast last year and I snapped it up as soon as I saw it in the "New Book Section" of the library, of which there is ample selection.

Last Updated on Friday, 22 January 2010 18:25 Read more...
 

XP Networking Tips

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Here's a couple of XP Networking tips that I learned today. They're simple though, but since I looked them up for work, I thought it'd be a good idea to write them here for posteriry.

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Last Updated on Friday, 22 January 2010 12:56 Read more...
 

Tivo tips

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To get a tivo transferring after it constantly reads "Adding to the "todo list" " run echo MfsRubbishTree /RecordingQueueItem | tivosh in telnet. This will flush that invisible network transfer queue.

mount -o remount,rw / is used to put the filesystem into read/write mode.

Yesterday my main TiVo died (Wednesday, Jan 6th, 2010). I replaced the two Western Digital Drives, which had been spinning constantly and problem free for the last 6 years, with an original TiVo Drive that I had removed from TiVo2. It had 6.2 on the active partition and after I put in TiVo1, of course it had to be erased using the "Delete & Clear Everything" feature. It came back, all the channels I had before no problem, including locals. It still needs to make a call though and will not record anything or let you get to the Now Playing list until you configure dialup and make a call.

Last Updated on Saturday, 01 January 2011 17:22 Read more...
 

Fallacy of the Day for August 31st: Appeal to Fear

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Another fallacy for you to read about. This one has to do with exploiting someone's fear of something to force acceptance of your point of view or agenda. Something like: "Bob is an ex-convict, therefore he must've been the cause of the store's increased shrinkage." or, "That country doesn't like us, therefore they've been developing weapons of mass destruction."

In 2003, the administrative branch used Weapons of Mass Destruction as an Appeal to Fear to influence America to wage war against Iraq.

 

Last Updated on Friday, 22 January 2010 12:34 Read more...
 
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