As oxymoronic as the phrase “interesting academic paper” may sound — especially those with graduate training who have every right to know how seldom an exception pops up to break the rule of passive, run-on, dry-as-the-Sahara prose more common in this genre. Back when I studied anthropology I sometimes marveled at how an otherwise astute [...]
Author Archives: Ed Tittel
Pleasant Surprise with New System Build & Windows 7 Starter
September 22, 2009 – 10:15 am
About three weeks ago, my wife’s old PC started to give up the ghost. I built that system four or five years ago around a low-end DFI socket 939 motherboard with onboard VIA graphics, 100 Mbps Ethernet, two SATA 1 connectors, and DDR memory. The system included an AMD K8 Sempron 3200+ CPU (1.8 GHz), [...]
In Memoriam: Cecilia Katherine Kociolek Tittel 1919-2009
September 14, 2009 – 1:42 pm
I got back from a business trip Friday morning to learn that my Mom, aged 90, passed away peacefully in her sleep the previous night. She spent the last year and a half of her life in an assisted living facility in Fairfax County, VA, after living with me and my family for just over [...]
Rude Surprises: Asus P5K Mobo Doesn’t Do VT; Bungled BIOS Flash Hoses Same
August 14, 2009 – 9:28 am
In Windows 7, running Windows XP mode requires that the computer support Virtualization Technology (VT). Most modern Intel and AMD CPUs support VT, but I am learning to my woe and dismay that some motherboards — including some relatively new ones — do not. This includes the Asus P5K motherboard that has otherwise proven itself [...]
No Joy on In-place Upgrade; Clean Install Succeeds
August 10, 2009 – 8:46 am
I’d been hoping to try an upgrade install on my balky, problem-prone production PC to see if it could cure or at least help to address some of the issues that Vista has developed over time in that runtime environment. Alas, it was not to be. I’ll share the details in the next paragraphs, but [...]
