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If you're experiencing a system stutter every 20-30 seconds on your Dell system, try shutting down the Dell Wireless WLAN Tray Service in the Service Manager. I was having this issue with the brand new Latitude D830 I purchased. I first noticed it while listening to music with Windows Media Player, the songs would skip every 20 seconds or so. Moving the mouse around continuously revealed that this was affecting other system activity, as well. After shutting down nearly every app that was running on my system, I managed to make the issue go away as soon as I shut down the service I mentioned above. In the past, I have had issues with the Dell-provided software that has come pre-installed on their laptops. Dell, I'm sorry, you make great laptops but your software sucks. It has gotten to the point where, as soon as I receive a new system from Dell, the first thing I do is uninstall all of the Dell software. Hopefully, this fix will save you time and headaches. I suggest disabling the Dell Wireless WLAN Tray Service completely, it is not required. I did talk to Dell support and hopefully they will add this to their known issue list, or at least fix the service and provide a patch for their customers.

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I got laid off again last week. Man, I'm a loser. Anyway, I plan to take a little time off and do some camping. I haven't nailed down a date yet, but I will probably head out around the 2nd week of October. The tentative plan is to go up to Utah, with stays at Zion, Bryce and Arches national parks, and then head up to Colorado and visit Great Sand Dunes National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, and maybe Colorado Springs. My national parks pass is good until the end of the year, so I plan to get as much use out of it as I can. I'm just going to throw all my camping shit into my truck and head out. I'll have all my camera gear and I intend to do lots of shooting. I will either be blogging my trip on this blog, or I may do it all though Picasa, I haven't decided yet. I'm probably leaning more towards using Picasa, since my photos will all be geocoded and it'll be fun to track my progress through the southwest as I visit the different spots.

I'm getting excited about it, the trip is sounding like a hell of a lot of fun. I'm basically going to keep going until I decide I want to come home. That could be three days or it could be three weeks, I don't know. It's going to be all primitive camping. I'll post more details as I get some dates and other trip specifics nailed down. Oh, and I've got room in my truck for one or two more people. :)

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