I have been meaning to make this post for a while now: I am even delayed today posting it due to a power outage in the area. Simply put, I am going to Anime Blues Con. This will be my first ever Anime convention, and I am quite excited. Memphis is not known for having […]
In late 2007, I purchased a Zune 80. I had weighed the options available, the design of units at the time, and the software used to sync them. My experience with iTunes and a borrowed iPod nano had been, suffice to say, less than stellar. Of course, the Zune software was just as clunky, but […]
So, you all know the problems I have had the past few months with video scaling, right? Well, with me having to restore windows on this machine, I naturally had to reinstall the video card drivers, and what would you know, scaling actually works again via GPU. All I can say is that something is […]
So, I am going to have to reinstall Window to my main desktop. The reason? Security center was basically destroyed by a flash based exploit. I noticed a few days ago that, for some reason, the action center icon on the taskbar was just plain gone. Nowhere to be found. I went to the action […]
[Yes, I know this post is long overdue. Sorry about that: as usual life has it’s way of taking up time. That, and Terraria] So, by this time, it was coming up on 2010. Xadara was several years old, but had also grown stagnant. Very little conversation was happening on the forums, and while the […]
So, sometime last year, I decided to see just what the Windows ReadyBoost feature would do on my desktop machine. Yes, I know the feature is designed with laptops in mind, but at the time I did not yet own a Windows 7 based laptop, so there really wasn’t much I could do, save for […]
So, for yet another year, rumor around the internet is that Apple is finally going to kill off the Mac Pro computer line. It’s the same story as previous years: Apple has not said anything major about any changes to the Pro line, when compared to the typical overhauls done every season to the other […]
So, right, with all this talk about Instagram on Android, and me being a guy who likes to take random photographs, I decided to check it out. Oh, those on my Facebook can see the chaos that has come. I have been snapping pictures of virtually any possibly interesting scene just to try out the […]
It was Thanksgiving, 2007. KuriMix 1st and 2nd gen had been released for a short while now, and Xadara was gaining popularity as a community. Small, but vibrant forums, with new members every few days. It was pretty cool, really… Until I woke up that cold November morning. I awake to find my hosting service […]
So, here we are. 5 years ago today, I sat down with a friend and registered the domain http://www.xadara.com. 5 years ago I made the decision to set up a top-level domain presence on the internet. I don’t honestly know how I came up with the name. I know I wanted something unique… something I […]
Eeyup… 5 years is a long time on the internet… especially for a site that has been funded as a labor of love. I am already writing a small history of the site… one entry in which I just posted before this one, so I will leave you all with just the cake… 🙂
Recently, I have been listening to music that I listened to back a decade ago, when I was in High School. Many of these bands I have not really listened to since then, so it was refreshing, in a way to go back to familiar tracks that I was not burnt out on listening to. […]
So, upon waking up today, I learned that Nvidia had released a new driver set (295.73). Cool, after waiting 2 months, I had another chance to get my video card scaling working again. Wrong. These drivers behave identical to the previous set, or indeed, ANY driver set I try to use: they simply refuse to […]
Yeap. The Xadara blackout in protest of SOPA and PIPA has ended, along with that of apparantly a dozen or so “major” websites, many websites with cult followings, and indeed, possibly over 1000 smaller sites, and personal web pages. It actually seemed to have a good effect, as President Obama reportedly said he would refuse […]
From 8Am to 8Pm tomorrow, January 18th, 2012, Xadara will be “on strike” as it were, in protest to the ProtectIP and SOPA laws trying to be passed through the United States governmental system. I’m not going to make some longwinded post about such, explaining what these things are, why these laws are so horrible […]