Blowing away that annoying hum from a PC's fan

Grok Headline matches for Blowing away that annoying hum from a PC's fan

North Korea says no, that was just us
blowing up a mountain for a
hydroelectric project, not us blowing up
nuclear bombs

North Korea says no, that was just us
blowing up a mountain for a
hydroelectric project, not us blowing up
nuclear bombs 09/14/2004 07:17 AM
We asked what you blew it up with

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3650702.stm
track this site | 3 links

The lid is blowing off.

The lid is blowing off. 07/16/2004 01:34 PM
The lid is blowing off. Tom Tomorrow reports that the story of the 107 imprisoned, tortured, and raped children in Abu Ghraib is beginning to break all over the world, as the US media remains in patriotic silence. We're already about to lose our first ally over this, Norway.

Blowing out candles

Blowing out candles 08/08/2004 12:04 PM
It'll be a cold day in hell, ooh, around Wednesday. Red Adair is dead. A sad day, and a great man. When they make a film of your work, and have John Wayne play you, well... From Blowout Control, Part...

VW Polo is Blowing Up

VW Polo is Blowing Up 02/01/2005 09:02 PM
Volkswagen has issued an all-points bulletin for Lee and Dan, the producers of the Polo spoof ad: "We are prepared to pursue the two individuals."

Blowing our minds

Blowing our minds 06/14/2004 08:25 AM
Martin Torgoff, author of "Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000," talks about America's complicated and schizophrenic history with drugs.

TSG: Blowing Up Gotti

TSG: Blowing Up Gotti 08/20/2004 12:24 AM
Three generations of the volcanic Gotti clan. Two telephone receivers. One plexiglass divider. Life gets complicated when poppas in the pokey .. Blowing Up Gotti .. Gotti

thesmokinggun.com/blowingupgotti
track this site | 5 links

Sims 2 hacks blowing up

Sims 2 hacks blowing up 01/06/2005 07:46 PM
Cory Doctorow: Hacks for Sims 2 are spreading like wildfire:

Entire neighborhoods of Sims are being mysteriously graced with eternal youth, while some characters are finding all their needs fulfilled by a single shot of magic espresso. Others no longer need to empty the toilet after potty training their toddler. Some Sims are being abducted by aliens when they glance through their telescope -- every time, instead of just occasionally, which is normal.

All this mayhem is the work of a community of experimenters wielding hex editors, custom programs and reverse-engineering skills who began mastering their own Sims 2 worlds immediately after the game's release last September. The hackers share their weird science with one another through public websites and forums.

Link (via Waxy)

Blowing off the Iraq disaster

Blowing off the Iraq disaster 09/22/2004 05:05 PM
Even as a grim collage of mounting insurgent attacks, civilian beheadings by terrorists, and the general spread of chaos continues to darken the long shadow that's fallen over Iraq, the Bush campaign is launching a new TV ad focused on some other really, really important stuff. It seems they have a problem with their opponent's choice of leisure sport, and what it might say about his integrity. In the new spot, titled "Windsurfing", BC '04 cleverly flogs its Kerry flip-flopper theme, this time by showing Kerry tacking back and forth across the water, and announcing "John Kerry: whichever way the wind blows."

Blowing away the romance of violent
crime

Blowing away the romance of violent
crime 02/10/2004 02:59 AM
Excellent review of a myth busting biography of Dick Turpin the 18th Century highwayman who according to popular mythology was...

Teddy: mind-blowing 3D package

Teddy: mind-blowing 3D package 12/12/2003 11:39 AM
Teddy is a spookily cool 3D modelling package that automatically extrudes your 2D line-drawings into three-dimensional, rotatable objects. It runs in a Java applet and is mindbogglingly easy to use. The forms that it creates have a kind of organic roughness that is utterly unlike the 3D objects I've created with other 3D packages. 32MB AVI Link (via KoKoRo)

Whistle-Blowing Said to Be Factor in an
F.B.I. Firing

Whistle-Blowing Said to Be Factor in an
F.B.I. Firing 07/28/2004 11:45 PM
A classified investigation has concluded that an F.B.I. translator was dismissed in part because she said that the bureau had poorly translated important terror documents.

Flower of Africa: A Curse That's Blowing
in the Wind

Flower of Africa: A Curse That's Blowing
in the Wind 04/07/2005 02:33 AM
All over Nairobi, Kenya, thin plastic bags littered by consumers are piling up into little mountains of disease.

Your mission, if you choose to accept
it, is to keep your balls from blowing
right the hell up.

Your mission, if you choose to accept
it, is to keep your balls from blowing
right the hell up. 06/06/2004 04:06 PM
Explod ing Billiards. Addictive time-waster.

Hahah blowing chunks bothers Jenn
*huzzah*!

Hahah blowing chunks bothers Jenn
*huzzah*! 12/21/2003 01:14 PM
Yeah so in about 30 minutes I'm going off to Kitchener. I really don't want to go muchly. Apparently my...

BT strikes blow in cable blowing patent
case

BT strikes blow in cable blowing patent
case 12/04/2003 08:28 AM
Broadwing coughs

How Annoying is This?

How Annoying is This? 01/21/2003 10:56 AM
How Annoying is This? or Always, Always Blame the Data ! I was just debugging code as part of Mark's new online magazine Tekka. I wrote the login code and the way we wanted it to function was that if you tried to view something you didn't have access to then it would display a preview of the content (we originally were going to have it automatically create the previews based on the source text but we opted to create them manually to make sure that everything looked as good as possible; it made sense since the preview is essentially "marketing" for the article itself). What started happening over the weekend was that the previews worked fine for content I created. Of course as soon as the real content and previews flowed into the "system" (and I use the term "system" loosely; very loosely) then we started to see errors. In specific we saw that the previews were getting arbitrarily clipped. Now the previews I had made were quite short (probably between 1K and 4K of data) and the real ones were much longer. Of course the very first thing I thought of was some kind of byte size limitation. I knew that I was passing a much larger chunk of content into my templating class and perhaps that was it. So I merrily plunged into Google looking for information on string size limits in PHP. Sigh. Since Google seems to treat the extension of a url as a word (at times; it is bizarre) within the url's content it means that searching for PHP content can be difficult at times. I did find a most helpful bit of content on string size limits in BEALogic application servers though. Nothing to do with PHP of course but helpful to someone I guess. So then I delved into the source code for the templating library, FastTemplate. Nothing. Then I stopped reacting and started thinking. Yes that is the hardest part of debugging and one that all of us just plain hate to do. What I did was setup a simpler test case, pulling JUST the display code out of the logic and then taking my own data and making it larger. No problem. Worked fine. ###?*($#*# (fill it in). Hrm... Then I started thinking about the content I was getting from Mark and what I knew about it. Well I know Mark is an all Mac shop so I started to wonder about lower order ASCII characters being hidden in the content. You know -- what about ASCII 17? Or ASCII 3? So I scp'd the content back to my own server Windows box and used a gui editor. Sure enough there turned out to be two ASCII 0s embedded in the content EXACTLY where the content was being truncated. Mark and I hashed it out and I'm still not sure where these came from but it really doesn't matter. He made sure to get rid of them and so did I. What was happening was that the ASCII 0s were acting to truncate the string of preview content as it was passed to the display method. I ended up adding this to the routine before passing the content off for display: $preview = str_replace("\0","",$preview); Moral of the Story? Think before debugging. Simply your test case as much as possible. Check the data; even invisible things can screw you up.

Are You Annoying?

Are You Annoying? 07/24/2004 01:14 PM

MovieWorks Deluxe 6.0.2: Mutlifaceted
Multimedia-Authoring Package Makes You
An Interactive Auteur -- Without Blowing
Away Your Budget

MovieWorks Deluxe 6.0.2: Mutlifaceted
Multimedia-Authoring Package Makes You
An Interactive Auteur -- Without Blowing
Away Your Budget 12/30/2004 08:55 AM

Despite the lackluster performance of its supporting applications, MovieWorks Deluxe is an excellent tool for creating interactive audiovisual presentations on a limited budget. By Galen Fott, Macworld

Awesomely fucked-up magic eye trick
generated out of plain text (with thanks
to Matt Webb for blowing my mind)

Awesomely fucked-up magic eye trick
generated out of plain text (with thanks
to Matt Webb for blowing my mind) 06/23/2004 06:18 AM
with a message

lce.hut.fi/~ikalliom/stereo.txt
track this site | 5 links

Over 3,400 Annoying Gimmicks

Over 3,400 Annoying Gimmicks 03/25/2005 04:09 PM
Consolidated B-24 Liberator nose art archive. Signs of the zodiac, dirty jokes, self-fulfilling prophecies, and stumpers. (Some questionable content [NSFW-ish] and site design)

Free to be annoying

Free to be annoying 06/12/2004 12:00 AM
USA Today Jun 12 2004 3:06AM GMT

A Break From Annoying Ads?

A Break From Annoying Ads? 05/25/2004 05:12 AM
A high demand for online advertising space coupled with low supply is giving Web publishers the upper hand. It could mean a break from outlandish ads that block the article you're trying to read. By Amit Asaravala.

Annoying the sharks

Annoying the sharks 07/03/2004 11:43 AM
Where I'm staying, the kids have had the Discovery Channel all morning. It's shark show after shark show. The underwater scientists wrestle them, tag them, measure them, and check their teeth for unsightly plaque. Fine, but I plan on swimming in the ocean this summer, so could we please stop annoying the sharks for a while? Thank you....

Annoying Mousequito

Annoying Mousequito 08/22/2004 10:40 PM
ugh, get away

When Tech Gets Really Annoying

When Tech Gets Really Annoying 06/24/2005 07:22 PM

It's almost lunch time, and I'm driving down the street, not too fast and not too slow. My belly has been reminding me for a while that it's been several hours since I finished my bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats, and just then a Burger King joint comes into view. I'm thinking, "Hmmm. I wonder what their special is today." Apparently reading my mind, the super spiffy gee-whiz Daktronic s Message Center animated sign flashes "SPECIAL" several times in a very special animated sequence that must've taken hours to program. Then the display changes to read

TENDERCRISP CHICKEN

in really big letters, and pauses for a few seconds. As I get closer and closer to the restaurant's driveway, I'm thinking to myself, "That would taste really good about now," but the cheapskate in me is also asking, "How much does it cost?" By this time I'm less than a block away. Next comes

SANDWICH COMBO

(or something like that) in really big letters. Great. So you've got a SPECIAL on a TENDERCRISP CHICKEN SANDWICH COMBO and it takes you four blocks to tell me that? By the time it's too late for me to turn, in the sign still hasn't flashed the SPECIAL's price, so I drive right on by, looking for another place to buy lunch. Their advertising efforts just lost them a sale.

I realize that there are few rocket scientists running Burger King restaurants, but does it take a marketing genius to know that there is a limited amount of time for them to convey a message to passing motorists? With the old-fashioned signage, a Burger King would put up "TNDRCRISP COMBO $3.95" or something like that, which can be read in a glance and gets the message across in a fraction of a second. The galling thing is that with the electronic signage they could do the same thing, but they choose to jazz it up, and end up failing to get their message across.

Come to think of it, these electronic marquees suffer from some of the same maladies that make PowerPoint presentations so painful. Deane has written several posts about some of the issues with PowerPoint; if only the people setting these signs up would bone up on Po werPoint etiquette they'd have better success with their streetside advertising. Or at least it wouldn't suck quite so badly.

There should be a severe penalties for people who set up messages on electronic marquee boards that span more than two pages.

Potentially Annoying Features

Potentially Annoying Features 05/13/2004 02:04 PM
I just installed The Unread, a menubar application that tells me how many unread messages I have in my inbox.... (155 words)

"Why Mobile Phones are Annoying"

"Why Mobile Phones are Annoying" 04/18/2004 03:21 AM

DHTML Pop Up Ads Redefine Annoying

DHTML Pop Up Ads Redefine Annoying 12/30/2002 10:45 AM
"The novelty has worn off and now it's a hate/hate relationship. The new "pop out" type ads on web sites are the newest plague to sweep advertising on the internet. They totally block the content on the page until you locate the little teenie weenie "close" link."

Such a small thing, and yet so very
annoying

Such a small thing, and yet so very
annoying 03/14/2005 05:54 PM
Nav-commenters.gif is dead DEAD! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! DEAD I TELL YOU! Yay! As an aside, and reading John's piece, it suddenly pops into my head that the day a major hole is found in MT, it will be the presence of nav-commenters.gif...

STOPzilla - End Annoying Pop-Ups Forever

STOPzilla - End Annoying Pop-Ups Forever 07/01/2004 10:35 AM
Ad - http://www.aboutpeopletechinc.com Jul 1 2004 3:35PM GMT

Truth- More Annoying Than Fiction!

Truth- More Annoying Than Fiction! 08/30/2004 01:35 PM

Direct and Related Links for 'Truth- More Annoying Than Fiction!'

Well, having run down the rest of the page referenced in my revised “Rumor?” post, it appears that those little Microsoftians have been busy. Unfortunately, they’ve been busy figuring out ways to break Windows XP under the guise of ‘improving’ security. As you go down the page you may start to wonder why Windows XP works at all after installing the SP-2 patch. Something that I think will catch Messenger users by surprise, since I…

Aren't Cellphones Annoying? And What's
Up With Those PDAs?

Aren't Cellphones Annoying? And What's
Up With Those PDAs? 08/19/2004 07:35 AM

There was a time where I thought my career was going to be in that sparkling sugarplum factory known as "computers," but reading columns like this one by Robert J. Samuelson has convinced me that my career in "journalism" is much more suited to my desire to string lots of curmudgeonly words together and get paid for it. This week's insightful column? "A Cell Phone? Never for Me." You fight that power, Samuelson. (I especially like the part where he notes that he has also "resisted ATM cards, laptops, and digital cameras." This is the part where Zombie Thoreau puts down his cell phone and slaps the wax out of him.)

So that's journalism, I guess. I can't wait until I'm old and can write columns for Newsweek like, "What's Up With Mustard?" and "Holo Porn? It's 2D for Me."

Read - A Cell Phone? Never for Me. [Newsweek]

Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying

Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying 04/13/2004 07:20 AM

the 20 most annoying conservatives of
the year

the 20 most annoying conservatives of
the year 12/06/2003 05:05 AM

pandagon.net/archives/00002229.htm
track this site | 6 links

Making A DVD With Just 1 Mac And 7 PC's

Making A DVD With Just 1 Mac And 7 PC's 08/10/2004 09:06 AM
The results were absolutely astounding. And all it took was a farm of 7 PCs, 1 Mac, and about 48 man-hours. By Dennis T Cheung (via MyAppleMenu)

Looks Like The PC's Best Years Are
Behind It

Looks Like The PC's Best Years Are
Behind It 07/13/2004 11:41 PM
Today's stagnant PC world is a far cry from the golden era when exciting innovations emerged every few months. By Carl Skadian, Straits Times (via MyAppleMenu)

Annoying Web Ads Redux (Ziff Davis)

Annoying Web Ads Redux (Ziff Davis) 04/12/2004 06:17 PM
Ziff Davis - There are more effective and less annoying alternatives to pop-up ads.

Mick Hucknall, Simply Annoying

Mick Hucknall, Simply Annoying 01/10/2004 09:38 AM
During the time that 1,000 People More Annoying than Mick Hucknall has been in existence, only 97 celebrities have been judged less annoying. Another 10 achieved the sweet release of death. (01-09)

Email viruses are more annoying than
spam

Email viruses are more annoying than
spam 06/15/2004 03:47 AM
I've had my primary email address for many years, and I also get email through a number of work-related aliases, including editors at newsforge.com, roblimo at slashdot.org, and rmiller at osdn.com. So I get spam. Tons of spam. And I filter it all. I filter viruses, too, not because they can affect my Linux computer, but because they suck up bandwidth. And my virus email traffic now exceeds my spam traffic by a factor of at least two to one.
Grok Description matches for Blowing away that annoying hum from a PC's fan
GrokA matches for Blowing away that annoying hum from a PC's fan

Blowing away that annoying hum from a PC's fan

The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: