New Patio
Posted September 7th, 2011 by Tim CollinsWe replaced our old deck with a new patio. Check out the photos…
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Alyssa is 2
Posted June 17th, 2011 by Tim CollinsAlyssa is two! She had a Dora the Explorer themed party just like last year. She had a lot of friends at the party and everyone had a great time.
Ben is 4
Posted February 15th, 2011 by Tim CollinsBen turned four! We had dinner at “Happy Sumo” again, just like last year. He had a “Backyardigans” themed birthday party at Jeronimo inflatable fun center. The party was great, everyone had a good time.
New PC, It’s about time
Posted January 11th, 2011 by Tim CollinsI finally decided to buy a new pc. My old pc is over five years old, so it was about time. I bought it from Cyber Power again, since I was so happy with my last one.
It’s funny how much things change in five years..
| 1 Core | -> | 6 Cores |
| 1 GB RAM | -> | 8 GB RAM |
| 74 GB Raptor | -> | 90 GB SSD |
| 120 GB mirrored | -> | 1024 GB mirrored |
| 256 MB video card | -> | 1024 MB video card |
| USB 2.0 | -> | USB 3.0 |
Check out the specs…
- AMD Phenom™II X6 1075T Six-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport
- 8GB (2GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory
- Asus M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 AMD 890GX Chipset CrossFireX Support DDR3 Sckt AM3 ATX w/ 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, IEEE1394, USB3.0, SATA-III, RAID, 1 Gen2 PCIe, 1 PCIe X4, 1 PCIe X1, & 2 PCI
- EVGA GeForce GTX 460 SuperClocked 1024MB EE Video Card
- 90GB Corsair Force 90 Solid State Disk
- 2 1TB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Raid 1 mirrored)
- Apevia X-Dreamer 3 Mid-Tower Case w/ Window
- 700 Watts – XtremeGear Power Supply
- Sony 24X Dbl Layer Dual Format DVD+-R/+-RW + CD-R/RW Drive
- Internal 12in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer
Peachtree Road Race 2010
Posted July 15th, 2010 by Tim CollinsAnother 4th of July, another Peachtree Road Race. This was my third time running this race and I finished with a 48:45 (7:50 mile pace). This was about 3 minutes faster than my time last year. I had a good start and the weather was great.
Alyssa is 1
Posted June 8th, 2010 by Tim CollinsAlyssa turned one on Sunday and had a Dora the Explorer themed pool party. She has just started to walk and is a exploring every corner of our house. Check out these photos.
Disabling Dell Latitude D600 mouse pointer stick on Linux Mint 8 (Ubuntu 9.10)
Posted May 6th, 2010 by Tim CollinsSorry… have to geek out for a second. (This post is mostly for me. In case I need to do this again.)
Ubuntu 10.04 came out a few weeks ago, so I decided to do a fresh install on our kitchen laptop (Dell Latitude D600). All went well except for two things. The wireless connection would drop and reconnect. It happened often enough for it to be almost unusable. The second problem was the little mouse nub eraser nipple thingy in the middle of the laptop keyboard. When you typed it would move the mouse and then the mouse would have about a 30 second panic attack and you couldn’t get control of the thing. Typically the closer the key was to the pointer the worse the mouse would drift or wander around the screen. I searched for a while to try to fix both problems with no success. I did find this… Fixing mouse drift on a Dell Latitude C600 with a Sledgehammer
I gave up… and decided to give Linux Mint 8 a try. Installation was easy and wireless seems to be working with no problems. But the mouse drift problem is still there. After more searching I finally found this… Fully disabling touchpad in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
His solution worked for me. Here is the command I used…
xinput set-int-prop "DualPoint Stick" "Device Enabled" 8 0
I also added that command to my “Startup Applications” just like the other post discribes so this command will always run and disable the pointer.
