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Mouse Lag Fix

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

Trying to draw in PhotoShop lead me to discover the reason for my mouse’s unresponsiveness of in games. While using PhotoShop I noticed my mouse wasn’t moving smoothly.
Under Windows XP’s mouse properties I disabled “Enhanced pointer precision” and my mouse started behaving properly in PhotoShop. Further testing showed that the mouse lag in games […]

Sorting Photos

Monday, October 31st, 2005

My photos were very disorganized, especially after recovering them from my accidentally formatted hard disk.
A word of warning: SATA hard drives do not show as drive C: in the Windows XP installer, unless there are no IDE drives, so if you have more then one hard drive don’t trust the drive letters when installing Windows.
So […]

Cable Modem Web Interface

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

My internet connection stopped working today, which lead me to an interesting discovery. Generally when my internet stops working just I renew my DHCP lease and it starts working again.
But this time, when I renewed my DHCP I got a private Class C IP (192.168.100.41) and no gateway or DNS servers. This was strange, so […]