Hi! My name is Jonathan Heizer. I am a 24 year old from the United States and work as a .Net Developer. This site contains interest of mine, neat news stories, and progress of projects I am working on.
Dec
25
I have not had a chance to put the new motherboard into the car yet. I am going to rebuild the case I currently have to be much smaller since the new motherboard is smaller.
Biostar M7VIG 400 Socket A mATX MB
The biggest reason why I can decrease the size of the case [...]
Dec
25
Guest writer Aaron Brazell on Problogger.net has posted an interesting story that describes 10 things you should know about that will appear in WordPress 2.0 when it is released on December 26th. They include:
Thumbnails of Downloaded Themes
Capabilities and Roles
Importing from Other Blogging Platforms
Built In Caching
Image Uploading
Use WordPress for Social Networking
Hooks and [...]
Dec
25
I will be out of town for a few days. I am going to try to post anything I find over this time period but I am not promising anything. Have a Happy Holidays everyone!
Dec
25
Christmas is the time to recieve new geek toys. Only a few of my presents this year were tech related.
Logitech Z-2300 2.1 Speaker Set
40 watts RMS Satellites
120 watts RMS 8′ long throw subwoffer
Hauppauge PVR-150
PCI TV Tuner and IR Remote
I will put up reviews of each of these items as I use them [...]
Dec
25
“While many other high-end processors had multiple buses, scalable SMP interconnects and so on long time ago, alleviating the SMP scaling bottleneck somewhat, Intel still sticks to the old “single clogged FSB” approach. That results in choppy SMP scaling performance even when using CPUs with humungous caches, like the 8 MB XeonMP or 9 MB [...]
Dec
25
“The companies switched places in market value over the course of an intense, yearlong price war, with Netflix — which has no debt — now worth $1.5 billion, compared with Blockbuster at $684 million and more than $1 billion in debt.”
This is really interesting. Over the holidays I have seen numerous commercials for Netflix [...]
Dec
25
“According to cdrinfo.com, a mod chip for the Xbox 360 is likely to show up within weeks.
[...]
Everyone of us is endeavoring to develop a mod chip with complete functions. With the chip, gamers will access all functions of Xbox360.”
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Dec
23
“Some really neat tricks for Firefox 1.5. By typing chrome URLs into the browser address bar you can have Firefox nested inside a tab in another Firefox, make your Firefox think its an alert or open your bookmarks in a tab like Flock.”
This is pretty fun. There are lots of useful tricks. One [...]
Dec
23
I just graduated from college this past week and I am finally finding some free time to work on the car computer again. It has been so long since I have been able to mess with it. I made a few changes to some of my other computer and was left with a new micro-atx [...]
Dec
22
“After more than half a year of waiting, we finally have confirmation from the January 2006 issue of PSM. UT2007 will indeed be coming out for the PS3. Furthermore, they plan on launching the game right along side the console itself, perhaps as early as this coming spring.”
For those of you wondering what games will [...]
Dec
22
“Since Google uses Python extensively in its own projects, perhaps it was only a matter of time…”
Now he will be able to spend 20% of his time improving a popular language.
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Dec
22
“X11R7.0 is the first release of the complete modularized and autotooled source code base for the X Window System.
First major release in over a decade!
Many new features, including EXA Acceleration.”
It is exciting to see that there is finally an updated release. I hope this becomes a regular thing.
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