To Burn Flac and OGG file with Nero you need the plugin! One can find that plugin and many more at bitburners.com link to bitburners NERO codec page

Download the associated plugin and drop the DLL file into this directory

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ahead\AudioPlugins

(this works for nero 6 and 7)

Had a difficult time finding these, linksys doesn't have them on their site anymore so install at your own risk.

Included are Windows 2000 (win2k) Win95 win98 winme winnt linux freebsd drivers for linksys ethernet card LNE100TX Version 4 and 5.1

Use these files at you own risk Download Linksys Ethernet card LNE100TX Drivers

So running the calibration tool is pretty easy, just follow the included directions but note, on a dual monitor setup run it on your primary monitor first. The one marked “1” in the display settings. After the tool completes its going to install an application that runs on startup and makes sure the correct profile is loaded. This profile will be put in the directory I stated above. Now after this is done, go into that directory and rename the profile. I renamed mine from Spyder2Express.icm to Spyder2Express_right.icm and when I do the left monitor I will rename that one ‘_left’.

After this you’ll want to take your monitors and switch the primary monitor to your secondary. This way you can run the software on the other monitor now. Restart the machine and once the new primary monitor is set run the Spyder2Express again. This profile will be in that same directory with the default name again. Rename this one to something, i.e. “_left”. And you’re done with the calibration tool.

Now after this I go into our color control software, be it Vista’s built in software or our downloaded applet for XP, and I select one of the monitors listed (if you have different makes and models this will be easy, if they are the same it’s a bit of guesswork) and associate it with one of the profiles made, either the _right or the _left profile. Now select the other monitor and associate with the other profile. After applying these changes restart your machine. When the Spyder2Express Software loads up you *should* see a message on each screen where it is loading up the color profile. Now in the silly case where you have two of the same monitor and the color profiles have switched ( you see the _left profile loading on the right) go back into the applet and switch the profiles.

TADA…your done ....email me or post comments on any problems/questions

After buying a second 22”Samsung LCD 226BW. I bought the first one around a year ago, right in the middle of the big panel debate (if you don’t know what I’m talking about search for that model monitor and “S panel”.) Basically Samsung outsourced its panels to a few other manufacturers and while they weren’t “bad” monitors, the Samsung made panels were far better. I got lucky and my original monitor turned out to be a S panel and I have been insanely happy with it.

Flash forward to now, I order a second monitor and receive an “A panel”. While the monitor is very good quality, no stuck pixels, etc there is one problem. The monitor has a SEVERE blue tint to it under normal setup. Using the built in color adjustment I robbed the monitor of almost all blue color, from a setting of “50” to a setting of “5” and there was still a pronounced blue tint. Doing what any normal person would do I decided to spend more money and get a monitor color calibrator.

I wasn’t aware they had dropped so greatly in price, and after searching Amazon.com I ordered this Spyder2Express.

Now after ordering I noticed a serious problem, this product only works on a single monitor. You need the $160 device to support dual monitors. So after a little searching and a little playing I figured out there are ways around it. So here I’m going to outline how to use this with dual monitors on Windows Vista and XP.

PreReq’s :

Windows Vista comes with a built in utility to manage color profiles where as Windows XP does not. Usually color profiles end with a *.icm file extension. These are stored in x:\WINDOWS\System32\Spool\drivers\Color on both a Vista machine and an XP machine.

So if you have windows XP grab the “Microsoft Color Control Applet”, it can be found here Microsoft Color Control Applet and its provided straight from Microsoft. With this applet you get the same control that they now built into Vista. This applet gets installed into the Control Panel. So before you go and run a Spyder2Express there are some things you should know. First uninstall Adobe Gamma, or any type of color profile management software. Including the monitors software i.e. Samsung. After this you’re ready to run the color calibrator.

Today marks a day, the day Mozilla's Firefox takes on IE6 (Microsoft Internet Explorer 6). W3schools posted the statistics for September 2007: IE6 34.9% Firefox 35.4% IE7 20.8%. One year ago September 2006 Statistics had Firefox at 27.3% and IE6 at 55.6%. Why this is such a big deal, why does is call for a fresh cold one to be cracked and cheered to Mozilla? IE6 was released late August 2001 with partial support of CSS level 1. Cascading HTML Style Sheets (CSS) level 1 was finalized in December 1996 by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), CSS level 2 finalized November 1997. CSS allows web designers and coders to control a websites look across infinite pages with one file. The one file also saves download times and makes HTML easier to read for disabled users and search engines. All the beautiful sites and cool websites that are made without Flash use CSS in many ways. It took Microsoft 9 years to implement a browser (IE7) that supported CSS level 2 (CSS2). Until Mozilla started chipping user percentages away from Microsoft in 2003, Microsoft software was responsible for rendering 85% of all pages internet users browsed on the web.

Needless to say, web designers small and large have struggled to have all pages correctly render across all browsers (mozilla, safari, and internet explorers), there have been many hacks to fix IE rendering bugs. Hacks which were the last resort in the trick box of the developer after frustrating over single pixel lengths that destroyed layouts.

Why has Firefox surpassed IE6? Two main reasons: One, Firefox is customizable, more secure, and renders faster. Two, with the introduction to Windows Vista users are opening up new computers in IE7 or getting IE7 via windows update in Windows XP. IE7 is a much better browser than IE6 and supports CSS2. If Microsoft had only done this 5 years ago I wouldn't have to keep Windows XP installed with IE6 for debugging.

So today I crack open a cold one and salute the mighty developers at Mozilla that pushed Microsoft to get their shit together. I salute to the demise of IE6 and throw it back for less debugging headaches. Call your web dev buddies and hit the bar, see you there.

P.S. Respect to Netscape and Opera, but they haven't had the success in reaping up users like Firefox did.

It's late 2006 and i'm looking for a mp3 player to jump start 2007. So I’m looking and looking, $60 for a mp3 player/flash drive or $300 for all that with video capabilities. Screw, I want video capabilities but don’t want to drop 3 bills. So I Hit Google and run the query minidisc software; after some snooping around I found that sony just released new sonicstage software/program that controls all previous models of netmd players that use to use OpenMG juke box which if you’ve have a minidisc player know that openmg is complete crap and would crash. Well the new sonic stage is pretty and is very similar. What’s cool is that it detects and writes to the minidisc player! Though I managed to crash the program almost as fast as I crashed my iMac after running it for 5 minutes, I’m happy.

Find drivers for your sony minidisc player here and download sonicstage here.