FSLR First Solar, Inc.

FSLR First Solar, Inc.

First Solar, shares were up around 10% today, I closed my position with a modest gain, for those of you that didn’t see in the news; First Solar, Inc. announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Chinese government to build a 2 gigawatt solar power plant in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China. Pursuant to the MOU, signed in the presence of Chairman Wu Bangguo of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China, the solar project in…

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Silkroad Online

Silkroad Online

Well, other than school, perl, linux + vmware, and going out I need a new hobby to eat up some of my downtime without spending tons of money :), I decided I’ll start playing Silkroad Online again! Previously, when the cap was level 80, I had an 80 Full STR blader. Lets see how far I can get this time, word has it I will need 750,000 – 1,000,000 SP (Skill Points). In order to do alright, and more with…

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Second Perl Experiment

Second Perl Experiment

After a bit of reading online and book reading (Learning Perl 2nd Edition), I came up with this; #!/usr/bin/perl # Revision 1 – 09-03-09 1530 # Countr Code list, stdin, perl # SRC for codes: http://www.kropla.com/dialcode.htm use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants); $Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET = 1; #reset colors after each line print GREEN “Please enter the country code you are trying to look up.\n”; $cc = <STDIN>; chomp $cc; if ($cc eq “1”) { print GREEN “United States of America or Canada.\n”; } elsif…

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Experimenting with Perl

Experimenting with Perl

Well, this is my first actual experiment with Perl. All it does is chmod 750 some fetch utilities. In my next build I want to set it up so that if the file exists, and if it doesnt, it will prompt you that the file is not on the system and it is being skipped. #!/usr/bin/perl # Revision 1 – 09-03-09 # Initial Build # Chmod 750 of rcp, wget, lynx, links, elinks, scp, nc, ftp, telnet, curl print (“Permissions?\n”);…

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VMWare Tutorial – CentOS 4.7

VMWare Tutorial – CentOS 4.7

VMWare Tutorial – CentOS 4.7 So, you want to run linux on your PC, but you don’t want to repartition your drive, much less replace windows just yet? Well this may be the right solution for you. I do realise there are tutorials for this online, however this is what I did every step of the way, so lets follow; This article assumes you have basic PC knowledge, and have already downloaded and installed VMWare or already purchased it. And…

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September 1st Positions

September 1st Positions

Well with the market fluxuating a little bit, I decided to buy up a couple shares of CIT, lets see how it goes B: CIT  @ 1.51 Other than that, all my positions remain the same. CIT Group Inc.  (Public, NYSE:CIT) Was down 15.52% today, and up After Hours: 1.48 +0.01 (0.68%).

Positions as of 8-31

Positions as of 8-31

Well, despite the market being down I still managed to make some decent calls as far as the market. S: MESA @ $0.2506 S: HTDS @ $0.012 S: FAZ @ $23.40 My only loser that I sold today was FAZ. Lets see how the rest of the day plays.

Skype + Firefox Lag Issues

Skype + Firefox Lag Issues

A few of my friends reported Firefox running a bit laggy, most of them had recently installed Skype. It seems the Skype addon for firefox is causing a bit of lag / trouble, while I’m not a developer and cant really say for sure its a memory leak, or what causes it, I do have a fix. Im running: Windows XP SP 2 Firefox Version 3.5.2 Skype 4.1.0.141 I have 3.25 GB of RAM (that Windows is reading), Q6600 Processor,…

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Positions as of 8-29

Positions as of 8-29

Im no expert in the market, however sometimes friends ask me what I have positions in; heres the list. B: MESA @ $0.2260 B: HTDS @ $0.0107 B: FAZ @ $23.735 B: DXO @ $4.66 B: LVLT @ $1.24 Guess we will see where those go. Like I tell people, I have little experience in the market, so following my portfolio is definitely at your own risk. I’m using my IRA as a way to get a better tax return…

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