http://www.enusbaum.com/blog My little nerded out corner of the Internets! Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:07:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently my fellow iPhone owners discovered with the latest 3.0 Firmware for the iPhone, that they were now able to enable tethering with no more than a small download using their phone's browser. Thus "sticking it to the man" and allowing their iPhone's to now work as a modem for ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2009/06/18/iphone-tethering-hack-nothing-new/ I'm an avid SETI@home cruncher have been for years. My bragging note is that I recently passed 3,000,000 credits on SETI@home and part of that is thanks to the SETI@home CUDA enabled client they released which enables GPU crunching of SETI@home work units! I'm currently running the CUDA client on two ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2009/06/15/problems-with-nvidia-cooling-over-long-term/ [caption id="attachment_310" align="aligncenter" width="638" caption="Reunion Title Screen"][/caption] Does anyone else remember playing Reunion back on their 386's with a staggering 2MB of RAM? Lord knows I remember! Reunion came out over fifteen years ago and I still feel the urge to play it now and then even today. It's a great game ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2009/06/09/old-school-game-reuinion-and-a-saved-game-editor/ Many moons ago I decided to build an Home Theater PC (HTPC) for miscellaneous computer uses that I might want to display on a TV.... OK, really it was just the thing everyone was doing at the time and I wanted a new project, so a small HTPC fit the ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2009/06/02/upgrading-my-htpc-its-time-to-bring-it-up-to-date/ I recently ran into a situation where I was tasked to profile some .NET code and do some optimizations anywhere hot spots popped up. I was amazed to find out that one of the BIGGEST offenders in our code block was a simple call to StringBuilder.Append(char). I had to take ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2009/05/28/net-stringbuilder-fast-but-not-as-fast-as-you-think/ This last week I decided to sit down and hash out a simple Huffman compression routine using C#. I'd never created a compression routine before from scratch (my past implementations were static for the sake of time savings), so I fleshed one out. I know that many examples exist elsewhere ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2009/05/22/example-huffman-compression-routine-in-c/ I'm sure you've seen it in the news lately, lord knows I have seen it on every technology related website and blog across the internet. Time Warner Cable has announced a monthly bandwidth cap on their Road Runner Cable Internet service. Time Warner is touting that the 40GB plan should ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2009/04/07/time-warner-cable-have-they-gone-mental/ I've been using my Samsung NV24HD camera for some time now to capture both standard resolution (640x480) and high definition (720p) video, but recently my wife needed to import one of those movies into iMovie to edit it down in size. To my surprise, even though Quicktime is able to ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2009/02/11/importing-movies-from-a-samsung-nv24hd-into-imovie-08/ My car is old. Ok, not REALLY old but old enough that it doesn't have an AUX input or an iPod adapter. ;) I drive a 2004 Acura TSX with Navi and recently canceled my Sirius subscription to save money, so I wanted to be able to plug in my ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2009/01/31/car-hacking-installing-an-ipod-adapter-in-my-acura-tsx/ I was out checking my morning feeds when I happened across this article over at kotaku.com . It seems this guy has created a soundtrack for a Japanese RPG (Final Fantasy-sorts), but the catch is the game doesn't exist anywhere else bit his head! Talk about backwards game development! It's a pretty ... http://www.enusbaum.com/blog/2009/01/27/listen-to-the-jrpg-soundtrack-of-the-jrpg-that-doesnt-exist/