109 free email domains you've never heard of

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Where can I find the Official U.S. Government Student Loan Page?

Need a student loan? Check out the official site first, at http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/DirectLoan/index.html

Hardware that Rocks!

So I recently Stumbled onto a YouTube video of a floppy drive playing "The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)". As in, actually playing the song by moving its read head back and forth. After bouncing around the "related videos" for a while, I decided to compile a decent list.


1. Floppy Drive playing "The Imperial March" (Darth Vader's Theme) from Star Wars:




2. Scanner playing "Ode to Joy" from Symphony No. 9 in D minor




3. Scanner playing "Für Elise"




4. Scanner playing "La primavera" (Spring) from The Four Seasons




...and I'm bored. K Bye.

How to use any game pad with Need for Speed Carbon

This could work with any racing game (probably). I'm not going into detailed steps, but this should be what you need. It works on Windows Vista or XP.

Download this:
http://members.shaw.ca/coxswainballs/joy.rar

It contains PPJoy and PPJoyJoy. The first is the install for a virtual gamepad driver, the second contains the configuration program.

I used my MatCatz MC2 Racing Wheel. I installed PPJoy, launched the program and added 1 virtual controller, then started PPJoyJoy. Then I made the wheel's X axis the X axis on the virtual controller, and the Z axis (the pedals) the Y axis on the virtual controller. I then assigned each of the 10 buttons as buttons 1-10 on my virtual controller. I didn't bother with the D-pad--don't know if it's possible. Anyways, you have to keep the second thing running Then I launched NFS Carbon and set the controls up there. Works! Remember that to calibrate your wheel, you need to use the Windows Calibration screen for the wheel itself (not the virtual controller).

If all the stars on the main sequence of a star cluster are typically only one-hundredth as bright as their main-sequence counterparts in the Hyades C

Question: If all the stars on the main sequence of a star cluster are typically only one-hundredth as bright as their main-sequence counterparts in the Hyades Cluster, then that cluster's distance is:

Background: I was walking on the street the other day, when this conversation took place:

GUY #1: Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man:
Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.

GUY #2: Father, what news? what is the prince's doom?
What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand,
That I yet know not?

GUY #1: Too familiar
Is my dear son with such sour company:
I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom.

GUY #2: What less than dooms-day is the prince's doom?

GUY #1: A gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips,
Not body's death, but body's banishment.

GUY #2: Ha, banishment! be merciful, say 'death;'
For exile hath more terror in his look,
Much more than death: do not say 'banishment.'

GUY #1: Hence from Verona art thou banished:
Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.

GUY #2: Hey, if all the stars on the main sequence of a star cluster are typically only one-hundredth as bright as their main-sequence counterparts in the Hyades Cluster, then that cluster's distance is what?


Naturally, I had to answer that here.

Answer: 10 times as far as the Hyades's distance.

Which of these forms of radiation passes most easily through the disk of the Milky Way?

Question: Which of these forms of radiation passes most easily through the disk of the Milky Way?
Answer: Infrared Light
Source: http://www.scienceclarified.com/El-Ex/Electromagnetic-Spectrum.html

What is the typical hydrogen content of stars that are forming right now in the vicinity of the Sun?

Question: What is the typical hydrogen content of stars that are forming right now in the vicinity of the Sun?
Answer: 70% Hydrogen
Source: http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~west/starslife.html

Which part of the galaxy has gas with the hottest average temperature?

Question: Which part of the galaxy has gas with the hottest average temperature?
Answer: The halo
Source: The instruction booklet from the PC version of Halo 2

How do we determine the Milky Way's mass outside the Sun's orbit?

Question: How do we determine the Milky Way's mass outside the Sun's orbit?
Answer: From the orbits of stars and gas clouds orbiting the galactic center at greater distances than the Sun
Source: http://users.zoominternet.net/~matto/M.C.A.S/notes(8).htm

Why do disk stars bob up and down as they orbit the galaxy?

Question: Why do disk stars bob up and down as they orbit the galaxy?
Answer: Because the gravitational pull of other disk stars always pulls them toward the disk
Source: http://www.bramboroson.com/astro/apr22.html

Where are most of the Milky Way's globular clusters found?

Question: Where are most of the Milky Way's globular clusters found?
Answer: The halo.
Source: Halo 2

Argus VGA DCM099 Drivers (or, the case of the missing D_DCM099.exe file)

Why is it that even the download link on the Argus website doesn't work? Because someone misnamed the file. It can be found at http://www.arguscamera.com/support/drivers/D-DCM099.exe

Also, to get it to work in Vista, just rename the .inf file to any other extension after the install. Your "Dual Mode Camera" should safely install. At least that's what happened with me.

So, this should solve all of your Argus VGA Camera (Vista) driver problems.

Who this blog is for

This blog is for people who happen to find it in a search for information using Google. It's not for the RSS-ers, and it's not going to have long posts that would make an English teacher proud. Quick information is all you're going to get.