TiVo and EchoStar, of Dish Network fame, have been embroiled in patent litigation for a number of years, regarding a number of patents that TiVo uses to implement some of its DVR features (AFAIK, these are not trivial patents but IANAL so don’t quote me on that). TiVo got some good news today, as the […]
I sincerely hope that both parties are negotiating in good faith and trying to prevent further violence and bloodshed. But that’s me, I’m a bit of an optimist that way. When Morales says he will get his constitution approved “Por las buenos, o las malas”, essentially translated as “By any means necessary”, its difficult to
Things continue to deteriorate in Boliva. First, Evo’s government expels the U.S. ambassador – but at the same time sent a letter to Dept. of State indicating that Bolivia wants to “maintain bilateral relations.” Me thinks someone should explain to him what expelling an ambassador indicates. The eastern provinces are in basically full rebellion against
Dear Landon, now lets see you put on such a performance against a team near the top of the FIFA standings.Americans Get It Right at Home, Cruise in Qualifier – washingtonpost.com “We were excellent,” forward Landon Donovan said. “The first half was one of the most dominating performances I have ever been a part of.
As if there was any chance left that I’d vote for McCain this fall, this pretty much seals it. BTW, Comedy Central last Thursday had a great movie about candidate McCain. Yeah, I’m a few days behind on that, but life is hectic with a kid. Its actually kind of nice – practically the only
I sure am glad I went with the TivoHD instead of going with Verizon’s DVR. What TiVo Could Teach My Verizon FiOS TV DVR « NewTeeVee I recently swapped my old Series 2 TiVo for an HD-capable DVR from Verizon FiOS. While I love the fact that I can record high-def programming, I miss my
Surfing on the sly with IE8’s new “InPrivate” Internet These new features are part of Microsoft’s continuing Trustworthy Computing initiative to ensure that software and websites respect the user’s privacy. I might be a bit paranoid, but shouldn’t that read: These new features are part of Microsoft’s continuing Trustworthy Computing initiative to ensure that software
Patty and I have a deal to run the Cherry Blossom 10 miler together, and another race in Wisconsin in reciprocity. She ran 3.1 miles this morning. Today I ran, according to my treadmill, for 32 minutes, 2.3 miles, and burned 400 calories. Next run is Thursday.
If you’re contemplating switching to running PHP5 under FastCGI, to take advantage of apache’s threaded worker model and improve your server’s performance, think again. If you’re used to setting and overriding php values via .htaccess files or using php_value/php_flag in your virtual host directory, this is not supported with FastCGI. You’ll have to figure out
I was noticing today many apache segfaults on this server, and pretty high traffic loads at times. I haven’t pinpointed the exact cause of high traffic, there are a couple candidates, but the apache segfaults seem to accompanied by the following PHP errors: [13-Aug-2008 13:55:27] PHP Notice: MemcachePool::get() [memcachepool.get]: Server 127.0.0.1 (tcp 11211, udp 0)
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