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Archive for March, 2008

Hibernation problems

Posted in computers, tagged , , , , on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I never have been able to get my laptop to hibernate (sometimes it won’t even go to standby). It always gives me a cryptic error message: “Insufficient system resources exist to complete the API”.
Finally today I thought I’d search for this error message to see if anybody knew what to do about it. [...]

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botssel

Posted in computers, tagged , , on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So I am trying to install an open source EDI translator called Bots on my Windows XP box and something keeps going wrong. I have tried it both from the Windows install executable and from the Python egg.
Near the end of the Windows executable installation it opens a command prompt window and some messages [...]

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Countries

Posted in quizzes, tagged , on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

110

Got this from the Anchoress via Happy Catholic.
Editor’s note: there used to be a nice pretty badge to go around the ‘110′ but somehow I messed up pasting the HTML from the quiz site. Anyway, it’s a quiz to see how many countries you can name in 5 minutes.

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Democracy in much more action

Posted in politics, tagged , , on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As my legions of loyal readers probably remember, I attended our precinct caucus four years ago and wound up being selected to be a delegate at the senate district convention (see Democracy in Action). Well caucus time rolled around again last night and it was a lot different this time around.
For starters instead of [...]

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