I attended the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fund Raiser hosted by dkVOGUE in West Hollywood last night, was a great event with interesting people, was sponsered by dkVOGUE, Fritz Hansen, Angeleno Magazine, and Casa Noble. Was a wonderful event, the backdrop of the dkVOGUE showroom was amazing, with the classic/modern Danish furniture it made the event wonderful, eye catching and breathless at the same time. The event was to raise money for breast cancer reasearch; they sold tickets for the raffle of some wonderful prizes. Amoung the prizes were some hand painted 7 series chairs, several autographed books, two sets of 4 chairs and the egg chair. I bought 1 ticket, solely to give a donation to Cancer research, not really figuring to win anything nor was that my goal. But as luck or divine intervention, I won the main prize of the limited edition $6000 Fritz Hansen/Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair. So to my host dkVOGUE, other sponsors of the events and Fritz Hansen I would like to say thank you.
My New Fritz Hansen/Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair from dkVOGUE
Posted in Life on 03/20/2009 05:44 pm by MattIntegrating ClamWin into Vista Security Center
Posted in Microsoft, Tech, Windows on 03/12/2009 12:41 pm by MattI use ClamWin as my antivirus, I think its a decent product and it gets the job done. My only Complaint was windows would nag about not being able to find an AV. So I did some searching and came across a great blog post by Quandry on remstate.com on how to integrate ClamWin into WinXP. He has a VBS script that registers ClamWin with the Security Center and it works on Vista too! So hop on over to his site, grab the script and run it! Remember to run it with administrator rights. I just opened the command prompt as admin and ran it. Enjoy! And if you like it let the Author know!
Uncompress a windows file
Posted in Tech, Video Cards on 03/09/2009 12:04 pm by MattI was running into an issue where windows was telling me I was missing my nvHotkey.dll, I had recently installed the newest nvidia driver on my laptop, I have a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ750n, and I upgraded my video driver using the latest driver from nvidia.com. When I started receiving the error I went to the nvidia driver folder (usually C:\NVIDIA\driver#) and found the nvhotkey.dl_ compressed file. I then uncompressed it and stuck in my windows\system folder. Viola, problem solved.
Need to know how to uncompress the file? Here are the instructions:
You need to expand a file when you want to copy just one or two files from distribution disks of a software application without having to reinstall the whole thing. This situation occurs when you have unsuccessfully installed a program which causes one or two of your system files become corrupted.
The compressed files that comes in the distrubution disks of your program are normally compressed. They have their original names with one character replaced with an underscore (”_”), like ole32aut.dl_ for oleaut32.dll
You can expand a compressed file into its original file using the EXPAND command in DOS window as follows:
for example: the expanded name is OLEAUT32.DL_ and you want to expand it into OLEAUT32.DLL in c:\windows\system
you type: EXPAND oleaut32.dl_ c:\windows\system\oleaut32.dll
Thought for today…
Posted in Quotes on 03/02/2009 11:48 am by Matt“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.” Mark Twain
Hindu’s in India to produce softdrink from cow urine.
Posted in Strange Stuff on 02/13/2009 02:53 am by MattWould you drink Cow urine? Supposedly it cures dozens of diseases. To each his own I guess.
Google adds new tools in the fight for Net Neutrality
Posted in Google, Internet on 01/29/2009 11:44 am by Matt
In the latest Google corporate blog post the company it is helping to put tools out to allow the normal internet user to take his or her ISP to task. The latest set of tools is an effort in co-operation between academia and Google. What Google is doing is allowing the research universities to use Google’s massive infrastructure to test and develope tools to see if ISPs are blocking or throttling certain types of traffic. Measurement Lab or M-Lab is a suite of tools being developed across the globe to do things like check to see if your ISP is blocking or throttling your torrent downloads. Other features touted in the blog post are allowing users to “measure the speed of their connection, run diagnostics, and attempt to discern if their ISP is blocking or throttling particular applications.” With these new tools Google is taking the Net Neutrality fight directly to the ISPs. Before tools like these the normal user had no idea if their ISP was blocking any types of traffic. Hopefully with Google behind these tools it will shift how our ISPs think about us, the normal user.
More fraud mail
Posted in FRAUD on 11/25/2008 06:28 pm by MattWho falls for this stuff? Anyway, buyer beware, this is a fraud.
Hello
This letter may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have
not yet met. I have to say that I have no intentions of causing you any
pains so i decided to contact you through this medium .As you read
this, I don’t want you to feel sorry for me, because, I believe everyone
will die someday.My name is SALAM JAFER, a merchant in Dubai, in the U.A.E. I have been
diagnosed with prostate and esophageal Cancer that was discovered very
late due to my laxity in caring for my health. It has defiled all
form of medicine and right now, I have only about a few WEEKS to live according to medical experts.I have
not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for
anyone not even myself but my business. Though I am very rich, I was never generous, I was always
hostile to people and only focus on my business as that was the only
thing I
cared for. But now I regret all this as I now know that there is more
to life than just wanting to have or make all the money in the world.
I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this world I
would live my life a different way from
how I have lived it. Now that I know my time is near, I have willed and
given most of my properties and assets to my immediate and extended
family members
and as well as a few close friends and Schools in the UAE. I have
decided to give alms to charity organizations, as I want this to be one
of the last good deeds I do on earth. So far, I have distributed money
to some charity organizations in the U.A.E,London and Ireland. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I
cannot do this my self any more. I once asked members of my family to
close one of my accounts
and donate the money, which I have there to charity organization in
Bulgaria, they refused and kept the money to themselves. Hence, I do
not trust them
anymore, as they seem not to be contended with what I have left for
them. The last of my money which is the huge cash deposit that I have
with Financial Firm Abroad .I will want you to help me collect this
deposit and dispatched it to charity organizations
and let them know that it is I SALAM JAFER that is making this
generous donation.
I am writing this from my laptop computer in my hospital bed where I
wait for my time to come. I pray that God uses you to support and
assist me with good heartGod be with you.
MR. SALAM JAFER
Not that much of a Democrat
Posted in Politics, Tattoo on 10/20/2008 10:03 am by Matt
I saw this tattoo today on one of the forums I routinely surf as part of my job. I have to say, while the art is fantastic, I wonder who in their right mind would do this? I am not against tattoos at all, I think their are two times when you should get tattoos. First is when it means something to you, REALLY means something to you. You should never get a tattoo because your friends are doing it, or because you think having a dog, cat or insert other animal here is cute. Tattoos are something you do to memorialize or link your self to something, be it person, animal place, object or feeling. The second time is when tattoos are your life, you live, breathe and belong to tattoos. I like Obama and will be voting for him, I just won’t get him tattoo’d on me.
Mark Wahlberg talks to animals.
Posted in Funny on 10/15/2008 01:30 pm by MattA friend linked this to me today, have to say I found this funny. On a normal day I would have been like whatevah! But I guess its just the mood I am in today.