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King County Metro Bus 342 now has a wifi connection for using the Internet on the ride to and from work.

This was a rare occasion. Devin won’t sleep in his crib at night, but somehow I got him to sleep in the shopping cart.

That same day we had been up at Snoqualmie Falls just as the snow blizzard hit.

The MMO “City of Heroes” added a new [time travel feature]. Now you can replay some of your favorite missions. What would be even better is to time travel back to when people were playing it so you could form a party for a mission.

I am looking for a command-line compiler for SSIS/DTS packages. These are essentially xml based business objects.

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The [Vicious Engine] is a multi-platform abstraction that lets you create games that work on all the platforms listed below.

Nintendo Wii™

Xbox 360™

Sony PlayStation®2

Sony PSP®

Microsoft Xbox®

Nintendo GameCube™

PC

Sony PlayStation®3

[Vicious Engine video tutorials] require the [TSCC Codec].

Oddly, [CEGUI::Exception] lacks a way to record and access a stack trace.

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I get an error when I open a PDF with Gimp. I’ve asked on the forums about it. It turns out that [GhostScript 8.60] needs to be in your path. Also a environment variable needs to be created for {GS_PROG: C:/Program Files (x86)/gs/gs8.60/bin/gswin32c.exe}.

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Microsoft released a free [add-on] that allows you to print to PDF.

[Dr. Divx] is an open source video encoder that allows you to both encode and crop video at the same time. With Dr. Divx you can queue up encoding videos for a variety of download speeds.

Visual Studio 2008 released today. [VS 2008 Express] can be downloaded for free.

[XNA Game Studio 2.0 (Beta)] is now available. The new beta supports all the [essential game making requirements].

Graphics

Networking

Input

Audio

Storage

I have a dual-head SLI rig. I’m able to create a desktop that extends over two monitors and a TV. But I need a new feature in the NVidia control panel. I’d like to choose a monitor to clone to customize the signal that goes to the TV. I’ve asked on the NVidia forums if this is possible.

I was hoping for an interface that looks more like this:

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If you can install VMware server on Windows 2003 then you’ll be able to create a VMware virtual image. After the image is created, load the image with VMware player which works on Win2k, WinXP, and Vista. When the VMware image boots you can install any OS. Lastly, load the image on the VMware server to install the VMware client tools after the OS is running. Here’s an example of WinXP Pro running on Vista in a window.

At six months, Devin has found a couple video games that he likes.

The Meebo instant messenger plugin for Firefox needs a feature to show groups and sort by groups.

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[VMWare Server] is a free product that allows you to create Virtual Machines. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the drivers that it comes with are signed, so it doesn’t appear to work in Vista Ultimate.

[why?]

Apparently, you cannot install “VMWare Workstation” inside of a virtual machine.

[why?]

Apparently, [TeamSpeak] doesn’t install on Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

I recorded and posted a [Youtube video] featuring my new computer.

NVidia just came out with [new Vista 64-bit drivers] that improve software fixes for SLI technology.