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Determining right Power Supply Unit (PSU) to use
Dec 28th
Many custom PC builders have a hard time determining what size, i.e. number of watts, to use in their rig. Some just go with the thought that bigger is better, and that isn’t necessarily the case. I’ve been searching around trying to solve this problem, and it looks like the folks over at ThermalTake have a page that simplifies this out greatly! Just enter in some of your basic specs, like CPU, GPU, attached devices, etc, basically anything that is drawing power, and it will calculate what you should need.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Dec 27th
I’m certainly not one of those who makes bad criticisms of a movie because I’m a purist of the genre, case in point all the Star Wars fans who had a spectrum of mixed reviews about the 3 prequel movies that were released out of Lucas Studios, but it seems again, that George Lucas, once famed director and visionary, has lost some of the luster that once gave him a massive empire to stand on.
Indiana Jones genre to many was about action, adventure, and curiousity to the unknown. In many ways, we see that live on in other movies, such as National Treasure, where our curiosity for adventure and puzzles along the way fuel our desire to see these types of movies continue.
This release though of Indiana Jones leaves a lot for both the casual Indy fan, as well as I suppose for those who grew up on this genre and were looking for Lucas to come back and hit one out of the park.
The first most obvious flaw is how old Harrison Ford is. In his younger days, it was the vibrant young archeologist who’s adventures threw countless obstacles in front of him–now as essentially a grandfather trying to keep up with his younger self, it seems a bit too unbelievable to imagine.
On the topic of unbelievable, the introduction of an alien influence into the movies central story arch really put a new level of stretching that you would suppose is fueled by Lucas’s extra-terrestrial interests, but in an Indy film, really seems out of place. At first I didn’t know where they were going with the story, and it certainly could have been promising, but if you watch through the end, you will probably be like me, and think to yourself, “What just happened”, and was that really it?
At any rate, its up to each individual to see it for themselves, but this is one that I will stay away from getting on BluRay and save your money for something with a higher replay value.
Previous Naruto Opening Theme
Dec 26th
I can’t believe that I didn’t post this earlier, but here is Hearts Grow – Yura Yura!
New Naruto Opening Theme Song
Dec 26th
As most who know me know that I am a huge Naruto fan. This is a show that I will download each Thursday every week and have done so for the last 5 years! And just recently they have put some really good songs on their opening and closing thems. Previous to this one, Hearts Grow – Yura Yura was on my iPod repeat over and over and over again! You just can’t get enough of these songs! Well they’ve done it again, and this time with Inoue Joe – Closer, this one kicks it out of the park! Great song, great melody, and just gets you up and moving! Enjoy!
Meet the Robinsons–All Time Favorite Movie
Dec 26th
So it’s not often that I can say that a movie makes it to my all time favorite movie slot–its something of a challenge to make it there you see!
But I have to admit, this one caught me off guard. Typically I envision movies coming out of Disney with the famed joint collaboration between Disney and Pixar, but this one when it first came out didn’t quite make much sense to me. I remember seeing the trailers and thinking to myself… “there’s a big dinosaur in the trailer talking about having a big head and little arm’s, just how good of a movie is this going to be”!
Quite the contrary though I have to admit–this one touched me at my very core. You know a movie is something that really has ever lasting endurance when each time you see it, physical emotions hit you. They could be laughter, sadness, anger, joy, whatever it manifests itself to be, but it’s when we connect at that level that we begin to see all the possibilities as it’s something that sticks with us having created a memory not linked by a thought, but linked to an emotional state. It’s similar in nature to how we link memories to smells, and those memories tend to be much stronger than just those that we experience.
There is a quite at the end of the movie that touches you at the core and is quickly becoming words that I live by:
Around here we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We’re always exploring and experimenting. – Walt Disney
This goes up there with my other favorite quote:
Ask a question and your a fool for three minutes–don’t ask a question and your a fool for life. – Unknown
It’s important that we align the way that we live in what we would consider the most virtous ways, actions that when we look back upon our lives in retrospect, we will not shurg ourselves off but look at how we changed and grew and became more than what we were. Meet the Robinson’s is a terrific example of how when we are faced with the most uphill challenges in life, we must pull ourselves together and keep moving forward. When we stop and dwell on the things that could have, should have, might have been, we tend to get lost in our own crapulance, and ultimately pay the price because of all the missed opportunities that could have been the Mount Everast of accomplishments in comparision to that which we can’t seem to let go.
Having come from an adopted background, family and friends are things that you don’t take lightly–in fact for me, it’s probably harder to become my friend, because there will always be an underlying thought of abandonment and mistrust. But if you live your life always doubting the goodness that might be out there, you can never forge real relationships with the ones that are around you, but those who you have yet to meet. But let’s not also forget about one of the most important foundations to what might just end up being a house of cards, and that is to put the trust in yourself to let go of your worries and doubts and let yourself take a chance on life.
One of the first jobs that I worked at, one of the trainers on the first few days of orientation told me the following words, and they have always stuck with me:
Always be aware of what you say and who you say it to. You never know who might be listening to what you have to say. For all you know, the person in the elevator that you think is just another person, might just end up being the CEO himself!
While some of this is a bit of words to the wise to make sure that as a newbie you don’t say the wrong things to step on people’s toes, its stuck with me because you never know what turn of events might happen and how that will in turn impact your life. You may have one of the most brilliant thoughts and your just chatting it up with your friends while you are out on a smoke break, but in the elavator you end up being overheard by someone from senior management who then takes you aside and wants to know more of your great ideas–this starts you on a path that will shape and develop you from that point on. Now that’s just an example of one such set of circumstances, but I think it’s a lost art that people forget about to be mindful of your surroundings and to be aware of the butterfly effects that continually occur around us.
Lord of the Rings on TV–Legend of the Seeker
Dec 21st
In what has to be one of the most interesting new shows to come onto the landscape, The Legend of the Seeker, I thought was originally just an off shoot of the Lord of the Rings series. But in reality, the show has many unique qualitites to it, and after watching what has already been broadcasted for season 1, this is a show that I think will be in it for the long haul. The story is unqiue and there is a dynamic between the two main characters that I think viewers will be drawn to. The wizard has a sort of quarky complex to him that reminds me of Doc Brown from the Back to the Future trilogy. The show picks up again in January, but you can catch all the episodes from Hulu:
Another show bites the dust–My Own Worst Enemy
Dec 21st
Another show that we watch each week, My Own Worst Enemy, we just found out is also getting cut from the NBC lineup. I have to admit, that this one didn’t really catch me off guard, as the story was a very confusing story to follow, and it was unclear as to what the NBC folks were going to do to carry out a story line now that Slaters character seemed to be able to function with being woken up either as Edward or as Henry.
Stargate Atlantis runnings its final course–The Sanctuary to the rescue!
Dec 21st
Many moons ago I wrote a blog regarding this show, and I have to admit, I thought this would be one of the legacy StarGate francises to last a decade or so. No so true as it turns out. The final series episode will air 2 weeks from now on the 9th of January 2009.
Let’s hope that the final two episodes are memoriable and put the show to rest in the right way, as we can recall so many times before where series finalies leave the fans wanting for me. Take Startrek: Voyager, searching for years for a way back home, only to wrap up in a short few episodes a magical way using some Borg transdimensional conduit that will take them from the Delta quadrant to the Alpha quadrant? Or Startrek: DS9, where the buildup to the Dominion/Cardasian and Alpha quadrant had been massing for months, only to end in a massive and wanting space battle? We’ve seen this happen before, and I’m just hoping that in this case, the writers and producers of the show take stock in what this francise means, and what it means to fans, and do the right thing.
On the other hand, there is another show that shows a lot of promise, The Sanctuary with one of the friendly faces from the Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis series–Amanda Tapping. I was curious when she left Atlantis as I thought her role was just developing, but now it makes sense for her to get her own show and really define herself apart from what she was doing in the Stargate realities. The show is somewhat confusing for those who are just picking it up for the first time, but stick with it, as the show really grows on you!
Copying rows from one table to another in MSSQL
Dec 13th
To copy specific rows from one table to another in MSSQL you will want to run something like:
insert into destinationtable select * from sourcetable where column = ”
So for example, if you wanted to restored rows from your sourcetable where userid has DOMAIN.COM in it, your query would look like:
insert into destinationtable select * from sourcetable where userid like ‘%DOMAIN.COM’
Creating table from another table in MSSQL
Dec 12th
In MSSQL, you sometimes want to backup your table(s) before you do something, so in the event you need to roll back, you don’t need to restore the entire database, you can just copy in the data from the newly created table, and dropping the data in your existing table.
To do this, you would simply run:
select * into newtablename from existingtablename
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