Category Archives: Technology

posts of a technological nature

New Job

Posted on August 1, 2009 by munchicken

I am now working at AMD in Software Research & Developement as a BIOS QA Analyst.  It is very similar to my product test analyst job at Dell, but more about low-level code valadation.  I preform testing of AGESA & … Continue reading →

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Solaris in VMware

Posted on July 9, 2009 by munchicken

I loaded OpenSolaris 2009.06 (Solaris 10) in VMware (Workstation 6.5.0 build 118166) on a AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ with x32 Vista, and upon powering up I get a message: “You are running a 64-bit guest operating system, but the … Continue reading →

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AMalum detections

Posted on July 9, 2009 by munchicken

I had some Win32/AMalum infections turn up this morning in CA Anti-Virus (Vista, 2007, ver. 8.4.0.28, engine 31.6.0) after updating to sig. 6604. I’ve seen that others are experiencing the same problem. I believe theses are false positives found with … Continue reading →

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VMware with Linux guest

Posted on June 30, 2009 by munchicken

I was having a problem with running Red Hat in a virtual machine with VMware. The OS was reporting the platform as a “?86″. Which caused “wrong platform” errors with all the rpms. The fix was rather than choose the … Continue reading →

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superfetch

Posted on June 4, 2009 by munchicken

Why did Superfetch just freakout on me??? I noticed that my system had started slowing down a few days ago.  Then it got to where the cpu was tied up so much that it took a couple of minutes to … Continue reading →

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single-catagory wordpress export

Posted on June 4, 2009 by munchicken

Here’s a simple way that I was able to export one category from my worpress database to a new worpress installation. Create a new user as an author.  (I used “export-author”) Goto Edit Posts and Filter by chosen category. Bulk … Continue reading →

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webpage

Posted on May 30, 2009 by munchicken

Well, I finally have it the way I want it.  At least until I change my mind in the next minutes, ha

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TSU Astronaut Lecture

Posted on April 7, 2009 by munchicken

Astronaut Charles M. Duke, the youngest of only 12 astronauts to walk on the moon, will speak on “The Adventure of the Apollo Moon Landings” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, in Flowers Hall Room 341 on the Texas State … Continue reading →

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new site design

Posted on March 26, 2009 by munchicken

I’ve been working on a new design to my site.  I created a static entry page branching out to all the other stuff.  I am still working on some of it, but it is mostly setup.

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funny OCR

Posted on October 15, 2008 by munchicken

I was scanning my “State of Texas” drivers license with a program that automaticaly performs an OCR on all scans…  So when I went to save the pic, it showed the default title as “pestsex.tif”.  I thought wth where did … Continue reading →

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