asiel’s scratchpad

I wanted to get a screenshot in Windows on my MacBook Pro today and couldn’t figure out how to do it. Apparently this is now supported in newer versions of bootcamp. I don’t currently have this installed though, so I had to find another way for the time being. I found a handy resource that showed how to do it with a Windows tool I was unaware of called On-Screen Keyboard. Thanks to this great tool I was able to get my screenshot. This could also be useful on a system where the keyboard may not be working or other similar situations.

AMD anounced they were buying graphics chip maker ATI today. This should make for interesting competition between AMD/ATI and both Intel and Nvidia. It will be very interesting to see what type of products they are able to bring to market. Hopefully this will help bring better CPU’s and GPU’s to market and lower costs.
See the engadget article on the merger.

I found a blog post pointing to an easy way to automate defrag in windows xp. This is extremely easy to do and is something that more people should definitely do because it will help their Windows computers run much faster.

The steps are basically as follows

1. open up task scheduler
2. put in %systemroot%\system32\defrag.exe %homedrive% as the command
3. select a time for defrag to run every night.

Here is the post

According to this news.com article Microsoft will finally be releasing a plugin that allows for saving Word documents in ODF format. This is great news that many people have been waiting for a long time to hear. It will sure be nice to know that a file saved from Word in ODF format can be read by users who may not have Word.

The ongoing series of apple commercials are fantastic. The actors they have for both PC and Mac are great. Unlike most commercials these commercials are so entertaining I actually want to watch them multiple times.

See the latest ones about better results and counseling and big boy clothes

In my usage Google maps has been pretty stable. With all the people that use it there are bound to be bugs that are found. I found a blog link to a very intersting “bug” in google maps. Check it out. I am amazed that this was able to get through the QA team at google. Or maybe it is a hidden “feature”.

I’ve been a fan of serveral Weird Al songs but I saw his new one today “White and Nerdy”. I think this has to be one of the funniest parody videos I’ve ever seen. The video is so descriptive of so many people I know and in many ways myself.

Check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mBGODdzzVw

I’m definately not the best math student in the world but these “solutions” really made me laugh and feel better about the math skills I do have.

See for yourself: http://immense-world.blogspot.com/2006/09/mathematics-genius.html