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StumbleUpon vs. WoW

For those of you who don’t know what StumbleUpon is… it is a wonderful browser add-on where you specify what your interests are and it will bring you to a random page in one of the categories you specified.  It also acts as a bookmarking site which you can access from anywhere.  You can...

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Vista and Ghost “a source volume could not be locked (640)” error message.

Posted by Brian R Hickey | Posted in Computers | Posted on 02-18-2010

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Open up device manager and go to “properties” under your hard drive.

Click the policies tab and uncheck the box for “Enable write caching on the disk.”

You should also disable System Restore if you haven’t already.

If this doesn’t work you can also try editing the boot loader settings:

BCDEDIT /set {bootmgr} device boot
BCDEDIT /set {default} device boot
BCDEDIT /set {default} osdevice boot

Will Wordpress work with AdSense???

Posted by Brian R Hickey | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 11-30-2009

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For those of you out there wishing to make your six-figure-salaries using AdSense… you will not be able to do so by using the free WordPress hosted blog.

If you wish to profit off of your blog using AdSense and WordPress you must use your own web-hosting company of choice. I highly recommend GoDaddy. They have built-in features for WordPress and other excellent features such as shopping carts and search-engine-optimization (SEO).

This site is an an example of what AdSense looks like on WordPress

Coke Machine Blue Screen of Death

Posted by Brian R Hickey | Posted in Computers | Posted on 11-20-2009

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I seen this at a local mall in New Jersey.  Why this Coke machine needs a computer is beyond me.  And why it’s running Windows in the first place is nothing short of sheer amazement.

StumbleUpon vs. WoW

Posted by Brian R Hickey | Posted in Computers, Gaming | Posted on 11-05-2009

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For those of you who don’t know what StumbleUpon is… it is a wonderful browser add-on where you specify what your interests are and it will bring you to a random page in one of the categories you specified.  It also acts as a bookmarking site which you can access from anywhere.  You can add friends and stumble their favorites also.  It’s part bookmark part social-network.  You can also share interesting websites with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.  If you choose to install Stumble, please give this page and website a big ol’ thumbs up.

Facebook Easter eggs

Posted by Brian R Hickey | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 11-03-2009

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Like a pirate:
1) Scroll to the bottom of your Facebook page.
2) On the bottom left corner, click English: US.
3) When the language selection appears, click English: Pirate.
4) Watch what happens.

Konami Code:
Press up,up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Enter key and magic circles will appear.
After you follow the old Konami code scroll up or down...then the circles will appear.
The only way to get rid of them are to log off or refresh the page.

To launch Facebook Chat in Sidebar in Firefox:
Press CTRL+SHIFT+B to open up the bookmarks organizer
Click on Bookmarks Toolbar
Go to Organize

Click on New bookmark
Type the following address:
      http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php

Tick the check-box the says "Load this bookmark in the sidebar"

To launch Facebook Chat in Sidebar in Opera:
Press F4 to open the Opera sidebar

Drag the above Facebook link onto the Sidebar

Pwned by ImgBurn

Posted by Brian R Hickey | Posted in Computers, Uncategorized | Posted on 11-03-2009

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A wonderfully horrible error message that I received when I was trying to workaround a problem…

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10 Life Lessons I’ve Learned From Playing Call of Duty

Posted by Brian R Hickey | Posted in Gaming | Posted on 11-03-2009

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  1. If you wait for the smoke to clear… you might miss your shot.
  2. No matter how good you are, there is always someone better than you.
  3. Winners never cheat and cheaters get banned.
  4. Don’t worry about where your opponents are… worry about where they’ll be.
  5. Always carry a knife.
  6. Look before you leap.  Or turn corners.
  7. Brains before bullets.
  8. If you see people fighting, stay out of the cross-fire.
  9. Zombies are bad.  Nazi Zombies are the worst.
  10. Playing in teams is better than going it alone.