Well, all of the blog content is ported.. finally. Now I can get back to the fun stuff. Speaking of which, NVidia has released a new GPU family called the NV70, or 7-series. Guru3D has a review of the biggest and baddest card in the line-up, the 7800GTX.
The performance of the card is considerable. However, if you’ve already got a 66/6800 series card, you might want to wait a bit. If your card has been dragging for a while, you might want to consider one of the models in the 7-series. Man, seems like I just got my 6-series card. 🙂 Oh well, that’s how it goes in this biz.

It’s been a while since my last post, but I’ve got a whole new article to show for it.

HTPC Project
A few posts back I mentioned a new project I was working on. Well, after a lot of work over many weekends and nights, and after waiting for parts to come back and forth, I’m finally at a point where I can talk about it. My new HTPC is finally together and working. More…

Every once in a while most of us come across some sort of odd behavior in our software that bothers us because we can’t figure it out. If you’re like me, these problems nag at you until you are finally compelled to fix them.

Firefox 0.9x bug
While there are a number of improvements in Firefox 0.9x series of browsers, I’ve also found there are several new bugs as well. The one that’s been annoying me the most is tied to the Firefox installation and how it integrates itself into windows. Windows tries to open a new instance every time you click on a link, and because something’s messed up, you get 2 windows and an error message. The problem lies in the fact that Firefox doesn’t clear out Internet Explorer’s DDE information when it’s set as the default browser. I put the error messages it was generating into Google and found a reference on Jon Galloway’s blog. This and another link on his page sparked my memory of messing around with DDE settings back in Windows 3.1 and I remembered all you generally need is the “%1” in the ‘DDE Message’ field for the particular file type you are trying to correct the behavior for. For Firefox, this means going to an explorer window, clicking “tools,” “folder options,” “file types” and then editing the properties for “(NONE) URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol” and the following entry “…with Privacy”. Delete everything but the “%1” (keep the quotation marks) in the ‘DDE Message’ field and everything should work normally. Phew.. glad to have that fixed. 🙂