Archive for the ‘Shared Discovery’ Category

Razer Lycosa Keyboard Problem

The Razer Lycosa keyboard, a gamer favorite, sold since 2007, garnered some bad press a few years ago due to a few bad batches of keyboards which left them either severely crippled or, at least, very annoying to use. Some keyboards succumb to an issue where the backlight refuses to stay on, the backlight will [...]

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Unable to Select Shut Down or Restart

You go to shutdown your Windows XP computer only to find you’re not given the option. The only option available to you is log off. The same behavior is experienced when logged in as either a local or domain administrator. What’s up? Well, it could be that your local security settings are set (on purpose) [...]

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Unstoppable Cell Selection in Microsoft Excel

In Excel, moving the mouse anywhere on the screen will result in selecting all cells the mouse passes over. Excel does not respond to the right or left-click and can only be closed forcibly. In other words, the mouse cursor behaves as if the left-click is being pressed while in Excel causing it to do [...]

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Students: $30 Upgrade to Windows 7 Home Ultimate or Professional

Looking for a cheap, legitimate, almost free Windows 7 copy? Microsoft is offering Windows 7 Home Ultimate or Windows 7 Professional (32 and 64-bit versions) for $30 to college students with a valid .edu email address. Head on over to the order page, enter your email address and get in your pre-order! For the record, Windows [...]

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Romance, Sarcasm, Math, and Language: The Comic [xkcd: volume 0]

The first comic book from Randall Monroe, the genius behind the xkcd web comic is available for purchase! xkcd:volume 0 features 600 comics, selected by Monroe, and include fan and author favorites. Obviously, owning a book of a widely distributed, freely-available web comic is merely for the novelty of the tangibility of a comic book, however, the comics in the book have [...]

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Verifying Game Files Crash [Steam]

I’m making a note here in the hopes that, perhaps, it will help a frustrated gamer out there, somewhere. The issue at hand occurs when you try to launch Team Fortress 2 (TF2), Half-Life (HL, HL2), or Counter-Strike (CS) (any game connected to Steam that uses the HL2 engine). Steam will launch a small window [...]

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Shadowrun 4 Character Generator

Trying to generate some Shadowrun character sheets? You could use the spreadsheets that are floating around, all over the intertubes, OR you can try out the Shadowrun 4th edition Character Generator by DaisyBox software. The SR4CG is a fully functional (beta) program, dedicated to creating characters for Shadowrun. The program defaults follow all SR4′s standard [...]

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