BurnedTofu.com Blog

2008-11-16T21:15:00.001-08:00

That's my idea of life in a nutshell cats and being at peace with the world.

Thoughts for Today

2008-11-16T19:46:00.000-08:00

I see no reason that man kind cannot exist without war and violence. As beings of free will we have the choice to not engage at such. No one benefits from these things, they bring only pain. I believe the world can be a better place if we choose to make it so.

Prepare pomegranates in the sink there is a lot of juice and they can be kind of messy.

Computer Fan Screws tend to strip and not go in straight use 1 1/4" #6 machine screws and nuts, they are much easier to use and it makes fans easier to remove for cleaning.

No matter how bad things get they could be worse.

What I'd like to see from a Politician

2008-10-09T11:25:00.000-07:00

1. Admit wrong doing and errors. If you say or do something wrong admit to.

2. Don't point fingers. I don't care what you say about how your opponent is wrong, what are you going to do that is right?

Let your anger be like a monkey in a pinata

2008-10-03T15:05:00.000-07:00

I can understand calling tech support because you don't understand computers (though I do think that if you want to use a computer you should try to develop some level of understanding about how to use them). However what has never made sense to me is people calling tech support and being either rude or just down right mean and angry. Lately I've just been inundated with rude and well angry customers, often times for things that take me 30 seconds to fix. You know if you're calling tech support take a deep breath, calm down, and realize that when someone picks up your call there is a living, breathing, human that doesn't like getting yelled at on the other end. I don't think there is any amount of money you can pay someone to make getting yelled at for something that they are just paid to help with alright.

2008-09-23T13:20:00.000-07:00

Someone with way too much time on their hands here

And Now for Something Completely Different

2008-09-23T12:54:00.000-07:00

This was stuck on my head today! Though this is far from the first time.

muhahaha can you feel the power

2008-09-23T09:28:00.000-07:00

So I was just reading this article about Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries. Now I really need to build an electric car these would rock for one. Or at least a moped.

http://www.metaefficient.com/rechargeable-batteries/innovative-lifepo4-batteries-electric-vehicles.html

A matter of perspective

2008-09-22T12:53:00.000-07:00

Perspective is an interesting thing and can be dramatically affected by emotional states.

How we perceive a situation when we are happy or sad are generally going to be different, and often drastically different. For example when you are sad you feel like you're alone, not connected to anything, lost, and searching. When you are happy the world feels full of light, everything seems to be better, the world is more vibrant and you feel connected to the universe.

I'm in the happy state right now, and intend to stay there! :-D

Who Needs Sleep

2008-09-18T06:14:00.001-07:00

I guess when you're happy you need a lot less sleep. Probably didn't go to bed when I should have this morning, but yet I have more energy than I ever remember having at 8 in the morning! I guess I used to use sleep as an escape from reality and now I'd rather be awake. :-D Thanks to the source of my happiness! Also on that note I forgot to set my alarm last night but the kitten jumped on my head this morning and woke up up on time. So thanks for the wake up kitty.

Cool Name

2008-09-12T14:19:00.000-07:00

Despite its possible religious and movie related references Trinity is a cool sounding name. (Customer had it)

Though I bet the usage of that name has gone way up since the Matrix.

Morning Bad

2008-09-09T16:29:00.000-07:00

The latest of Icanhazcheezburger.com

Some Initial Thoughts

2008-09-09T14:10:00.001-07:00

Today's Thought: Emotions need a constructive outlet otherwise they can turn non-constructive emotions.

Some people need sports to work out aggression (I'm not one of them), aggression is ok but held in it can become anger and violence.
But positive emotions need an outlet too. How horrible would it be to feel something about someone and not let it out? I'm speaking from experience here that caring about someone is great but expressing it is even greater.
And I just violated what I said I probably won't do, but oh well I'm going to slip every once in a while. But I guess then if I didn't do what I just did I would be violating what I just said. :-D So yay for not being a hypocrite!

Weird

2008-09-09T13:50:00.001-07:00

Ok its weird when make a wish calls you. And how do you talk to someone about a child you know is terminal?

New Plan

2008-09-09T12:19:00.000-07:00

Ok so I started this blog to post answers to technically questions that have basically driven me insane and hope to alleviate that headache for someone else. However I keep forgetting about it and well I've only posted once. Someone I care about showed me her blog and so I'm going to restart this one. Though I'm not the type of person to lay my feelings out on the net (there are very few people I talk about them to in my personal life), so it will most likely be weird stuff I find on the internet or just random insights thoughts because that's how I think.

Windows XP does not show IP address

2007-08-28T14:24:00.000-07:00

There seems to have been a rash of computers coming into work with no IP address, subnet, gateway when you go into control panel > network connections > right click and status. The computers aren't getting a 0.0.0.0 or anything of the sort, the section is just blank. Netsh and LSP/Winsock Fix don't work. Found the fix on this page
Though I didn't have to follow it explicitly. All I really had to do was do a search for the tcpip.sys find a copy at a location other than c:\windows\system32\drivers and copy it to c:\windows\system32\drivers, overwriting the file that's there if its even present. Then I disabled and re-enabled the local area connection adapter and it got and IP. If the computer has more than one network adapter installed you may need to remove the extra adapter or disable it in bios as this repair won't work if there is more than one adapter active.