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My new business card

Wyatt Fuller — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:25:27 +0000

My business card for Designsparc

My new project

Wyatt Fuller — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:26:21 +0000

Right now I am writing a simple cms in .net for my wife’s site at http://mrsfuller.com. I know there are other solutions out there but this is for fun. I’ll be posting more as I go.

“Battery Not Identified” on my Dell laptop

Wyatt Fuller — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:29:33 +0000

Tonight I sat down on the couch and fired up my laptop to be greeted by a black screen telling me that my battery was notÂ identified. I started hunting around the internet to see if anyone else has had this problem as I was sure it wasn’t the battery since it’s only a few months old. As a matter of fact I bought this new battery because I was getting this same error message. Most sites I went to told me to update the bios which didn’t help since I had the most current bios installed.

Luckily I found a post that told me to just kill the battery and then cut it on after plugging it in. Since my batter was at 10% I figured I would give it a shot. When my laptop shut down I plugged it in and booted it up only to have it tell me that the battery was not identified again. I unplugged the AC and booted up. The battery lasted for another 10 minutes even though it showed as 0% before it shut down. I promptly hit the power button again and was able to boot back up a few more times with the error message displaying every time. I did until pushing the power button got no response. At this point I plugged in the AC power and booted back up with no error message and everything is working as normal.

The trick to this is to make sure the battery is 100% completely andÂ trulyÂ dead.

And I am back

Wyatt Fuller — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:52:21 +0000

I upgraded my blog to wordpress 2.9 tonight and due to a db error I damn near lost everything. Luckily I do make regular backups.

The reason that I upgraded is that I plan on taking part in Project52. So for the next year I will write at least one post a week. Cross your fingers for me.

And after the ordeal that was restoring my blog I am going to bed.

I now have an ipod touch

Wyatt Fuller — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:21:40 +0000

Today my sister called to tell me that a friend of hers was selling an iPod touch. I bought it and am actually posting this from it. Epic win!

Linux on the Dell

Wyatt Fuller — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:09:26 +0000

So this weekend I finally installed Ubuntu on my Dell laptop. I am free from the hell that is VISTA!

Think Linux

Another one bites the dust

Wyatt Fuller — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:06:08 +0000

Today was a relaxing day. I spent the morning watching TV and playing zelda, I even got in a nap. The only eventful thing I did today was go to little David’s wedding. It was a very nice ceremony and I hope the two of them will be happy. Now I am watching the old V mini-series. Total nerdvana.

I’m feeling ok today just really tired. I still have the rash at the injection site but it seems to have cleared up a little. Tomorrow I have an appointment with my PCP. It’s just a checkup so there shouldn’t be much to report.

This is full of win

Wyatt Fuller — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:33:29 +0000

Why??

Wyatt Fuller — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:35:45 +0000

I was looking at my server logs tonight and I noticed something. The majority of my visitors use IE. Why? Internet Explorer is the worst browser out there. If you are using IE you can pretty much expect to have your computer infected with viruses and malware. Here are some links to other better browsers.
Firefox – get it use it. Get the add-on Adblock Plus
Opera – I love this browser
Safari – Be like your apple friends

Here are the graphs from my server logs for April 30th. (click for larger images)
wyattf.com

wyattf.net

wyatt.org

Remember. IE bad. Firefox/Opera/Safari good

Billy D is the MAN

Wyatt Fuller — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:05:38 +0000

I still hate the Ewoks

Hitting close to home

Wyatt Fuller — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:57:36 +0000

Yeah this is me. Luckily everybody has a wireless connection.

Thank you Penny Arcade. Now I know I am not alone

Oh hell yes

Wyatt Fuller — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:39:06 +0000

I WON!!!

Wyatt Fuller — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:12:01 +0000

Tonight I went to the 2nd meeting of the Augusta Developers Guild. Tonights speaker was Karl Shifflett. He did a presentation of his software Mole Visualizer for Visual Studio. I was pretty impressed by this software and will be using it for work.

At the end there was a raffle and I won a free copy of Office Ultimate 2007. This is probably the best thing I have ever won and also the most expensive. Needless to say I had a good night.

NerdFest 2008

Wyatt Fuller — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:49:21 +0000

As the Birthday weekend continues Jenni, Ian, Chris and I went to see Jonathan Coulton in concert last night. It was a total Nerdfest and we guys loved it. I think Jenni might have had a little fun too…maybe.

You have to love being at a show where the singer asks “Who here loves math?” and the crowd go crazy.

Here are some videos of my favorite songs from the show as the pictures I took were awful. I didn’t get “re: Your Brains” because I forgot to recharge my batteries.

[kml_flashembed movie="/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/CodeMonkey.swf" height="240" width="320" /]

[kml_flashembed movie="/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/SkullCrusherMountain.swf" height="240" width="320" /]

[kml_flashembed movie="/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/StillAlive.swf" height="240" width="320" /]

Chris will have better pictures I promise you.

I really couldn’t have picked a better group to go with me. Thanks guys.

Pics of the new rig

Wyatt Fuller — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:05:17 +0000

Click for bigger pictures.

New rig is up and running

Wyatt Fuller — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:01:41 +0000

This post is written on my new pc. I should be finished tonight with updates and installing software.

After over a week with just the laptop I am very happy to have my precious back.

New Rig

Wyatt Fuller — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:41:37 +0000

I got it all wired up tonight. Tomorrow I fire it up and install XP.

I saw the rings of Saturn

Wyatt Fuller — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:40:05 +0000

I broke out the telescope and set it up in the middle of the street. Thanks to a call to my sister I was able to zero in on Saturn. The nerd in me came all the way out tonight.

Everyone can rest easy

Wyatt Fuller — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:03:46 +0000

I’m not going to go crazy. Jenni let the Newegg credit card out of the vault and I ordered my parts.

I got everything in the previous post and
Western Digital 750GB SATA Hard Drive x2

and a new video card
EVGA GeForce 8800GTX

She really does need to hide that card from me.

Time to upgrade the PC

Wyatt Fuller — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:43:21 +0000

So a lightning strike near the house caused an electrical surge to occur in only the ethernet cables and speaker wires.

Before you even ask everything in the house is on a surge protector or UPS.

When the strike happened Percy and I were both on the front porch and we got a nice shock. It was not fun.

The only things affected were:

The nic card in Jenni’s machine is blown
The surround sound system is gone
The ethernet ports in the router are gone yet the wireless still works
My motherboard is shot since the nic was integrated.

So now it’s time to upgrade. Tell me what you think:
EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
Model #: 132-CK-NF78-A1

PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad EPS12V 750W Power Supply
Model #: Silencer 750 Quad BK

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 Kentsfield 2.66GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor
Model #: BX80562Q6700

CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Model #: TWIN2X2048-6400C4PRO

or do I want this memory
CORSAIR XMS2 4GB(2 x 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Model #: TWIN2X4096-6400C5DHX

I haven’t been keeping track of all the latest changes in the hardware industry for the past couple of years so any help would be appreciated.
P.S. This is mainly a gaming rig.

Jim says it was electrical induction caused by the strike.

Decided to go with this memory:

CORSAIR Dominator 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066

Ramblings…

Wyatt Fuller — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:40:32 +0000

mySQL is now successfully installed on the laptop. I’ll be using it as my development machine from now on. I’m getting used to using a command line again. sudo is my new favorite word.

I ordered a Bluetooth GPS for my Blackberry today. I’ll never be lost again.

Got in contact with a few old friends on Facebook of all things.

Linux Update

Wyatt Fuller — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:24:54 +0000

Tonight as Lost was on I managed to get Apache Server up and running under Ubuntu including setting file permissions. Tomorrow I’ll set up mySQL and get a local WordPress site up and running.

I also got it setup to where I can connect to my work PC. This makes Ubuntu Linux a complete replacement for me. It does everything I need it to do. I still have the option to boot into XP but I’m hoping that I won’t have to. The only thing I can think of that I need is Visual Studio. I have Mono installed for .net development but haven’t tried it yet. If it works out I may wind up completely removing XP from the laptop.

My wife loves me

Wyatt Fuller — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:54:28 +0000

Happy Valentine’s Day

Now running Linux

Wyatt Fuller — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:46:30 +0000

I decided to take the plunge and install Linux on my laptop. I started out with Fedora Core 8 and just didn’t like it. I’ve decided to try Ubuntu out for awhile. So far I can see how it could be a desktop replacement for someone. It set everything up during the install including my wireless card. Pretty nifty.

I’ve installed some programming tools and am going to check out writing .net apps using mono.

New Firefly comics

Wyatt Fuller — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:32:55 +0000

I’m going to have to start another collection. Dark Horse has announced that they are going to make a Firefly comic. Joss Whedon is the man! I’ll be getting this series along with Buffy and Angel.