Giovanni F. Mazzeo De Santolo

Spring Break is here… Acronis True Image and Gigabyte Motherboard don’t play nice

Posted on April 2, 2011 | Leave a comment

Finally got a break for school, which means that after work I can get home and play with my toys instead of doing homework. This weekend I set myself to fix my video card so that I can once again use my three monitor screens on computer (it stopped working awhile ago).

So I went out to Frys Electronics and got myself another video card that I could match up with my old ATI RADEON 4870 512MB DDR5 via Crossfire. Crossfire is a protocol from ATI/AMD that allows you to use two video cards as one for better performance.

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Quick C# Programming Notes on String Formatting

Posted on March 28, 2011 | Leave a comment

Here is a few examples on the different ways to format strings when outputting data to the user. Computers usually store numbers without formatting.

Some of these notes will tell you the exact code you would need to make a computer’s “224” to be outputted as “$224” or “224 %”.

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Super Mario Parody and George Michael Prank

Posted on March 17, 2011 | Leave a comment

This post is a twofer, got a Super Mario parody video and a George Michael prank Continue reading →

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Oh noo! Can’t play thumb wars :(

Posted on March 16, 2011 | Leave a comment

Man, this has to be the worst place to get cut. Your precious thumbs or fingers, how am I going to text on my iPhone now? The horror.

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Every new update for iPhone iOS = Slower phone

Posted on March 15, 2011 | Leave a comment

Have you ever noticed that every time that Apple releases a new version of their iOS, the operating system for iPhones and iPads, that older versions/models will have a substantial decrease in performance (ie: slower)? Continue reading →

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Jimmy K Humpilates Sofia Vergara couldn’t be hotter

Posted on March 11, 2011 | Leave a comment

Just found this video online and thought it was pretty funny. Cameos from the hottest women in hollywood and Sofia Vergara (she’s from Colombia) all doing “humpilates” a combo of humping and pilates. Do I need to say more to make you watch this video?

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Got my motorcycle license in California

Posted on March 11, 2011 | Leave a comment

Yesterday was a very happy day for me. I received in the mail the Basic Riders Course receipt for the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) so that I could take the written test and get my Motorcycle license.

After checking the mail and seeing that I had the form, I had to go take the test right away. The excitement took over and it was something I had to go do immediately.

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Tagged california, dmv, moto