Jeffery's Blog This is my personal blog.

It's www.GearNerd.com. It is my brothers site and he spends a lot of time getting this information for everyone to see what new products are being released. It is mostly computer parts and accessories.

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Thanks,

Jeffery

It took me a bit but I found out why the programs were not showing up on the list. Evidently when I unchecked the box to show recent programs it had set the number of programs to show on the list to zero. So all I had to do is change the 0 to a 9 and everything was good.

Thanks,

JefferyS

Wow, in a few hours it will be 2009. So I thought I should do one more entry for 2008. Kinda got a new computer for Christmas. Mostly parts as it was an upgrade to my current computer. I got an Intel 9550 Duo Quad Core processor 2.8xghz, 8gb of corsair Donomator memory, an ASUS P5Q Deluxe mother board and an Evga 9800GT video card with 512mb ram. Who would of thunk that a video card would have more ram than the systems I used to build when I first got into computers. And I've seen video cards with 1gb of ram.

I put it all together and guess what, it works. The only problem is that it has a different chipset for raid and it didn't recognize the raid 5 setup I had on the old computer. If the board manufactures were smart they would come up with a standard raid format for the desktop boards so it was compatable between boards. It would make upgrading much easier but then again sometimes it's good to load from scratch. Which is a total pain in the butt. I've seen third party programs to transfer setting and that but never wanted to spend the money to see how well they work. Took me several days to load everything back up and get my tweaks back into windows and other programs. Had a few problems that slowed me down but not to bad.

I did change plans and left the raid drive with the board that I put in another case which was good because I didn't have a full backup of stuff, just the important stuff.

I purchased a VelociRaptor Drive from Western Digital 300GB. It's very fast and I saw a noticable difference when installing software. I decided to stick with one Drive and make full backups to a 500gb drive I purchased for $55. Will make upgrading a bit easier next time I hope. I also hope it makes the computer faster too. Right now my Vista Rating is 5.9 which is the highest you can go I think.

I am having one problem with Vista that is kind of strange. I had accidently turned off the "keep a list of recently run programs" or some thing to that effect so I turned it back on and the receint list still doesn't show any programs. Not a major thing but will have to figure it out. Things like that bug me.

Merry Christmas and a Happy and Profitable New Year,

They say money doesn't bring happiness, but I rather be rich and unhappy than poor and unhappy.

JefferyS

This past Friday I was on my way to have lunch with a friend of mine. I had just pulled into a exit only lane when the car in front of me swerved very hard around a large black trash bag full of trash. By the time I saw what was happening it was to late to swerve around it so I hit it right between the tires.

Shortly after I hit it I started to hear bad noises. I was on the exit ramp by now so I pulled over and stopped. I went around my Jeep, looked under it but didn't see anything. Being several hundred feet from my friends office I drove slowly still hearing the bad noise and parked it.

I asked my friend Karl for some boxes to lay down so I could look underneath the Jeep. What I saw was the black garbage bag wrapped around my drive shaft going from the front U-joint to the rear differential. I saw oil leaking from the differential. Thats not good. I managed to tear/cut the bag off the drive shaft till I was at the point when the drive shaft went into the differential. I started to remove that bit of plastic and oil just started to run out. I decided to leave the plastic bag in place to keep it from leaking oil so badly. I put one of the boxes under it to soak up the oil.

Well we walked to get some lunch, Karl had to get back to work soon. After we got back to the office I called my insurance because I had free towing. They came and pick up the Jeep and I and went to an auto repair place down the street from where I lived.

I told them what happened and they said they would check it out. They call me back later and told me that the plastic bag had gone inside the differential when they opened it up to look at it. They never saw anything like this before. That plastic bag cost me $176 in repairs.

Picked up my Jeep Saturday and all was good.

 

JefferyS

 

Look ma, i'm blogging

I am mostly going to talk about web programming. I may throw in some comments about whats happening in the world but I will try to keep those to a minimum.

I'm Jeffery Seiffert a live in Tomball Texas which is right next to Houston Texas. I have been in computers sense 1989, started out building clone computers at a small company. This is back when they were still selling 8088 computers. I think they went to maybe 16Mhz on that processor.

So I've been through the x86 series, 286, 386, 386sx, 486, I think they had a 486sx too, Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, etc.. I think I stopped building computers around the 386/486 and became an onsite service technician.

I did this until about 1996 when I went to work for a Air freight company as a Novell Server Administrator/PC Tech. I went on to learn Windows NT 3.51/4.0 server and workstation. I purchased books and took the tests for the MCSE certification and passed every test.

I then left the company to start a business with my brother. We wanted to pre-wire homes for high speed networks. That didn't work out because the Home builders didn't want to pay for professional wiring even though the home buyer would pay for it. Instead they used the electricians to install cat 5 for phones to a central location. My brother and I Set up many home networks using the pre-installed cat 5 and running new cables to locations where there wasn't a phone. Running cables after the home is built is a tough deal. So our business didn't go as planned, we came up with a prototype house wiring box because the ones on the market were terrible. But we couldn't find any funding so that didn't work either. This is the time everyone was putting their money in the Dot Com companies, then the Dot Com companies mostly bombed so we tried again to get funding but no go. During that time I had learned web programming and was putting web sites together for a graphics design company. So thats what I'm doing now.

I am not an expert but I'm pretty good at making small web applications that connect to SQL server so If your in need of that let me know. I do my ASP.NET programming in C#.

I can also put together websites from a design in Photoshop and Illustrator documents. See my web site for more information. http://www.dragonwebprogramming.com

Well not sure what else to say so I'll end it here.

Thanks for reading my blog and I hope you will find informaiton that will help you with your programming.

 

Thanks,

 JefferyS