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Bugged by a Bugcheck

I have had a minor problem from time to time on my home desktop.  Specifically, my desktop will sporadically reboot.  Now that I have had some time to dig into the problem, I am pretty certain I know what the culprit is.  Inspection of the event log shows the following entry.
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Event Type:    Information
Event Source:    [...]

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Drive-By Downloads, Apple Style!

So, like many of the unwashed masses on the Internet, I decided to update iTunes on my PC to iTunes 8.  I left my PC running the update when I left for the office, and I rebooted when I arrived home from work this evening.
Of course, yet again, Apple finds no problem in offering me [...]

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Twitter’s Failure and FriendFeed’s Shortcomings

Various bloggerati are up in arms about the ongoing instability of Twitter.  Information is slightly better than it has been before as the technical folks are communicating the status and their ongoing work to resolve the problems.  Various Twitter clients fail to work, and in some cases the site is completely unreachable.  The FailWhale image [...]

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Drinking the Kool-Aid

I have drank the Kool-Aid and given in to the pressure.  My Dell DJ died a rather unspectacular death yesterday, freezing upon a screen image text "FIRMWARE PROBLEM."  I knew this day would come, but I had always wanted to avoid it.
After much hemming and hawing, I was deciding between the Zune2 (the 80GB version) [...]

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Getting the Microphone to work with a Realtek HD Audio Chipset

I finally sat down willing to spend some time tinkering with my audio settings on my desktop after a particularly long and busy day at work--a day that started at 2:00 AM this morning. After some ineffective Googling, I finally found the solution that had alluded me.
Ever since I ordered and received my new [...]

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