I really enjoy the Chuck series on NBC, so every Monday night at 8 EST, I’m parked in front of a tv. When I can’t watch it at its normal time, I depend on Hulu.com or NBC.com for my fix. Hulu usually has the episode available about 1 AM Tuesday.
Monday the 9th I couldn’t get to a tv at 8, so I was looking forward to catching it on Hulu, but no luck. NBC doesn’t have it either and as of Wednesday, I haven’t been able to find any explanation or press releases to explain why it’s not on either site.
Did I miss something of global importance that pre-empted the show?
Links:
http://www.nbc.com/Chuck/
http://www.hulu.com/chuck
February 11th, 2009 | Posted in misc | 3 Comments
Updated 04/26/2010: After doing this a few times and reading some of the user comments, I’ve realized that you don’t need to use UNetbootin. It won’t hurt anything, just a couple extra steps.
After a normal restart yesterday, my Aspire One booted into just a black screen. No POST, no BIOS, no hard drive light activity, just the power button LED on and the fan running fast. I was not very happy…
I went to the Acer Aspire One User Forum and started looking thru the Hardware section. I found this thread Dead aspire one and it looked like many others had a similar experience. After reading many stories of warranty repair or replacement, I was just about to dig up my receipts when I found this post: Re: Dead aspire one.
It seems that a lot of people had success reflashing the BIOS from a USB drive using tools provided by Acer. I don’t know if it’s officially supported by Acer or if it will void your warranty, but if the computer’s a paperweight now anyway, what the hell?
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January 28th, 2009 | Posted in AA1 | 192 Comments
Touchpads drive me crazy! Fortunately, Acer was kind (and smart) enough to make Fn + F7 toggle it on & off. And, as an added bonus, this also works in Puppy Linux 4.1.2 retro k2.6.21.7!
If I could see better, or had taken the time to read the manual, I may have discovered this on day one. Maybe this will save someone else some frustration!
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January 22nd, 2009 | Posted in AA1, Puppy Linux | 3 Comments
January 17th, 2009 | Posted in misc | 3 Comments
I’ve had a lot of .pdf files to read recently and thought pretty seriously about buying a Kindle so I could carry them around with me. But, after a little research, and some thought, it looked like viewing .pdf’s on a Kindle was iffy at best and potentially a PITA if I had to convert all my documents.
I’ve been carrying around my AA1 and doing most of my .pdf reading on it, but have been a little frustrated trying to find the right combination of magnification and page width to get the most legible view.
Then I had an epiphany:
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January 5th, 2009 | Posted in AA1 | 2 Comments
