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Digg in a hole with HD-DVD Encryption

Digg have  reinstated all digg.com references to the HD-DVD encryption hack.  They had removed all links that referenced a sixteen digit hex number that unlocked the most currently released HD-DVD titles from the revenue AACS copy protection scheme.

To throw my hat in the ring as well here is the offending random sequence of letters:

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A fix for the annoying XP bug

So when my lovely wife was away visiting our friend Mickey this week, I took it upon myself to finally fix her laptop.  My willingness to do this had nothing whatsoever to do with the (barely) veiled threats she was issuing me if i did not fix it. 🙂

Like a good geek I decided to forego a call to HP tech support.  I always get so frustrated, explaining to them that I have tried this, and that, and the result will not change if I do it for a third time, with them on the phone.

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Techie Looking for work?

Rob said:

"Here in the San Joaquin Valley it’s tough to find great tech jobs. Pelco, where I’ve been for the past two years, is the cream of the crop. Since I started there I’ve seen giant changes within our organization, all for the good. We have a fantastic V.P. over our division and we reorganized the team a little over a year ago to better realize our goals. It’s been interesting and quite challenging; I’m on my third project since arriving."


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Annoying XP Bug

So on my lovely wife’s lovely new Hp Laptop, there is a really annoying problem. 

A couple of weeks ago, she explained (she never complains) that the XP Luna theme kept disappearing.  Now some of you may think this to be an acceptable issue, as you never "graduated" from windows classic mode, but my wife is rather fond of the bubble gum theme. 

On investigation I found that the theme service had stopped running.  I changed the recovery options on that service to automatically restart if it ever failed, and that seemed to fix that problem… For a while

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