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Fix for Opera 10 for Mac Freezing and High CPU Usage

Today, my copy of Opera 10 for Mac did a particular stunt for the third time I can remember. It freezes completely, uses in the neighbourhood of 50% of my CPU, and treats me to a repeat of this performance despite re-launching Opera and rebooting my Mac.

Mac programs that freeze are quite rare actually, and if it ever does happen, simply re-launching it should work basically every time. Well, it doesn't in this case...

Carleton University COMP3004 (ROSE-RT) Midterm

Carleton University
COMP3004 - Object-Oriented Software Engineering
Midterm from Fall 2009
Duration: 80 minutes
40 questions

TASM 5 Intel 8086 Turbo Assembler Download

A current version of TASM (Turbo Assembler) is rather hard to come by on the Web. Below is a .zip file you can download that is ready-to-go with TASM 5. I promise it worked for me for a whole semester, and I never had complaints about it.

Logging Flights with Garmin nuvi 760 GPS

As anyone even casually checking will have noticed, prices for GPS units have dropped steadily over the last few years. One month ago, I came up with enough excuses to convince me that a GPS was in my future. I'll save the details and comparisons for another post (maybe), but the point is that I bought a used Garmin nuvi 760. Now the question was how could I use it for flying?

Apple Not Immune to Spelling Mistakes

Spelling is pretty important to me, and I have found many a mistake on all sorts of websites. I would have thought, though, that a large company such as Apple would double-check everything going out their doors. Apparently not.

18 Months of Google Web History

Okay, today's agenda is very simple - describe Web History using my account as an example, then give my personal opinion on its usefulness. Feel free to add yours in the comments.

PRTFW.com For Sale

I own prtfw.com, and would be willing to sell it.  PRTFW is an acronymn that any pilot would recognize instantly.  If you are interested, or have questions, please use my contact form.

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