For some reason, on my home LAN, I have trouble playing Age of Empires. I know, it’s an old game, but I still like to play it. I’m connected at home via a Linksys WRT54G-L. I’ve also connected up a Netgear MR814 used as a hub, but I don’t think that’s the issue. I’m not using dhcp on either of those boxes – I have a separate machine as a dhcp server. Anyways, clicking “Show games” would never work! I thought initially it was some software issue, so I reinstalled Windows and it still didn’t work. I swapped out the WRT54G-L for a switch and then it worked! After some googling, I found that it might be the UPnP. Hopefully, this fixes it. It works now, but then again, it used to work before too. We’ll see.
Month: February 2008
Ash Wednesday or Chinese New Year?
Hmmm… tough question. I’m not supposed to eat meat on Ash Wednesday and am supposed to go to church and have ashes put on my forehead. Problem is, if I don’t eat meat at home, it’s Chinese New Year’s Eve. I’d probably never hear the end of it from my parents! I think I’d rather the Lord punish me later than be punished now. 🙂
Shrink down the big, bloated Windows!
Try using N-Lite for XP or V-Lite for Vista.<-->
N-Lite
http://www.nliteos.com/
V-Lite
http://www.vlite.net/
2001 Infiniti G20 – NOT a transmission problem!
Strange problem, but it seems that it was reproduced by another car other than mine, so I would expect that it will happen to a lot of others as well. There’s an intermittent problem where car will just rev and not move very quickly as if it doesn’t get into gear or something. It won’t go past 60mph or so and it’s revved very high at that speed, so you’re wasting a ton of gas. If you stop and restart the car, it’ll run fine again. It’s really frustrating as you don’t know when you’ll run into this problem and when you won’t. It will get worse and worse as time goes on. Turns out, the problem is with the battery. If you just change the battery, it’ll run just fine again! Just $50 fixes the problem!
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