Having problems with HDTV playback in Vista Media Center (VMC)? This is what I did to fix the jerky HD playback (but CPU utilization was not maxed out - that is an indicator of MPEG2 decoder problems) that I was getting:
Summary: What I had to end up doing was switch VMC from using the MPEG2 [...]
J.D. at Get Rich Slowly posted last week about the “Bank of Mom and Dad” and how we pay for education, with help from our parents and grandparents. The discussion that he started covered the problems that can arise down the road when adult children receive financial gifts like aid for college; in effect, they [...]
I started having problems with my card reader a couple of months ago, where it would no longer be recognized as an actual drive - instead it was being recognized by Windows as a VX7012 (some sort of “Advanced USB Video Capture” device). Here is what I did in Windows Vista (XP instructions are basically [...]
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I have been interested in some form of blogging for almost as long as I have been on the Internet. I remember keeping a little journal online in junior high school, just doing it off and on, most of that writing happening in little spurts for the last 10+ years. In the last year or [...]
I’ve spent the last couple of hours reading up on and tinkering with Wordpress and I need to force myself to stop for now. Right now, I am using the White as Milk Theme, but I don’t know if I will be sticking with it. It will keep me going for right now though.
I think [...]
