some moron at Thoshiba thought it would be nice to light up the front of the SD-4980 DVD unit with a bright blue LED. Thats nice, I came to watch a movie not be distracted by your annoying DVD player. So as lame as this hack is, its a hack all the same. I haven't posted any hardware-mods for a while and I read on digg all the time how people get credit for putting a laptop HDD in a NES Game and thats lame. This is at least useful. idea is easy open it up and chop out the blue LED’s (red arrow) I included a picture for the fun of it.

A simple yet needed hardware hack for the Toshiba SD-4980 DVD Player

coool http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/awesomeishotthat/

I just booted up a new Dell M70 laptop and it comes preloaded with google desktop

Ok finally got the crappy verizon DSL up (its not that great) did you know they block ICMP traffic?! 1.4/380 and its slower then my 512/512 i think they packet shape. i need to find out what is going on.

the moment you waited for so long. new place pictures. i took them quick and they are messy. but they are pictures. have a nice day.

I should get Internet at home today. So I can soon get pictures of the new place up.

I did just get cable and NASCAR in HD with 5.1 is awesome

picked up a new TV a Hitachi 55” RP3LCD (55VG825) I will edit this post for a review some day. Its still too new for me to review.

Spec Sheet

Also picked up this DVD Player toshiba SD-4980, its nothign special it was just cheap

I am finally moved into my new place, buying toothpaste sucks. Pictures soon

Update: I have no internet at the new place. so this blog will be stale for a bit untill i get things like that worked out.

Found a random artist named MC Lars has a song called IGeneration you can download for ¡free! fun music, fun song, funny idea. Cd Here

so i beta-ed windows one care my computer was just going crazy and i noticed this

Great feature for people who dont watch this stuff. I am impressed that Microsoft finally has a tool to do the work like this. only bummer is looks like they are going to charge a subscription rate for the tool.

due to recent bad weather and power kellykeeton.com has been spotty.

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NCa just purchased a new company –  Networks. since I am the internal IT I went down to portland to network-up the offices and install a AD/Exchange box.

i went Tuesday night

So everything was going peechy (surprising well for what it entailed) and then BAM no email traversing from site to site via Exchange2000/SMTP well not bam but it was a huge problem.

i got home to Seattle just to drive back Thursday morning…

So I broke down and after googeling everything about SMTP failed on site addition and extra exchange server SMTP failed. I gave up and called Microsoft. Thats a 245$ phone call for those of you that are wondering.

So as time ticks apu is looking at my server. Then he says ah-ha (he really said that) and then asked do you use a PIX i was like yes i do. Then he said here

So i was like booooo-yea problem solved. now i just need to explain to my boss why i spent 245 on a firewall problem when we have a dozen CISSP in house. great!

Apu was looking around for more bugs and fixed up some issues with Site Connectors then he said something that surprised me. He told me that in this particular case Microsoft was not to blame. and because i had set up the exchange environment the way it should be that he cant charge me since it was 3rd party. I was like OH YEA BABY (seriously)

so then i went home.

yes i am a nerd, but i am very good at it.