The dead display problem I had with my MacBook Pro last month seems to be widespread . However it looks like it isn’t limited to Macs. According to Engadget , “significant quantities” of NVIDIA’s laptop GPUs have been failing at “higher than normal rates”. Laptop makers have apparently already been given an updated GPU driver which kicks in fans sooner to reduce “thermal stress” on the GPU (I notice that the fan on my MBP seems to run more often since the motherboard was replaced).
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Death and taxesFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 09:51:47
I got my taxes taken care of today by two wonderful ladies in Pompano Beach who do an amazing job. They’ve been doing my taxes for the last three years.
This year I also had to have them do my late mother’s taxes from 2005, the year she died, for which I ended up having to [...]
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more Shades of O.J. SimpsonFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-05 17:34:13
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more Is Karl Rove working for Hillary Clinton?From: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-05 14:54:27
Hillary Clinton seems to be running her campaign right out of Karl Rove’s playbook. She’s obsessed at winning at any cost with no regard to how much damage she does to the party and the country. Her tactics pretty much guarantee a Republican win in November when she can praise McCain while attacking Obama:
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more Don’t ever do thisFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-03-05 11:38:22
I’m debugging a piece of code (which I didn’t write) that acts as a specialized web server when I found a little gem (more like a turd). When a system call fails, it simply calls exit(0) to quit immediately with no error message and no attempt to recover. Argggh!
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