Gizmodo, Wired, and PVRBlog are reporting that TiVoToGo is now available. For now, the service is limited to copying shows from your standalone series 2 TiVo to a Windows PC. You’ll need the latest version of the TiVo Desktop software, and you’ll want to read this post from the community forums. Supposedly they’re working on […]
Happy New Year to all of you! Writing was light last month for a number of reasons, chief among them the holidays and a much needed week off from work.
If you are looking for a way to donate to diaster relief for the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, you can donate to the Red Cross through Amazon. It takes no time at all.
I really hate the kitchen sink: New stuff coming for Sunbird lists the features in store for mozilla’s calendaring application. Of particular note, it will eventually support meeting invitations and easier synchronization with a palm pilot. Both of these features have been holding its adoption back at work as we look for an Outlook/Exchange replacement.
When I started working from home on Wednesdays, I dragged an old (from high school) bookshelf stereo system into our computer room to have NPR on for background noise. For some reason, I can’t work without some background sound. That doesn’t explain why sometimes at work I put on my headphones but forget to play
A lot of folks are complaining on the World of Warcraft forums about the slow peer-to-peer distribution system that Blizzard chose to distribute their game patches. I can’t say I blame them, cause its painful to watch it download at a glacial 4 KB/s while a bittorent for the same file downloads at 210 KB/s.
Secunia is reporting that a security exploit in Internet Explorer DHTML Edit ActiveX Control Cross-Site Scripting that affects Internet Explorer through the latest Windows XP Service Pack 2. A malicious site could show a different url than the actual one you are on. That is, the address bar could read “www.amazon.com” but you are really
So I’m mildly addicted to world of warcraft, which I’ve been meaning to write about but theres curiously little free time at the moment. I sent my wife an email with four funny PvP comics on the subject an her reply is "Didn’t know they were making a cartoon about you"
Earlier this year, I bought the inexpensive Samsung ML-1750 black and white laser printer to replace the unused and old color inkjet I had. The printer worked nicely but it didn’t get much use since I had it connected to a Windows PC. Instead of sharing it through Samba and requiring a whole PC to
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Both on my Debian PC’s at home and work, I’ve been annoyed that my Firefox and Thunderbird installations didn’t launch each other when I clicked on a link or email address. For example, at work, Evolution would come up if I clicked on a mailto link on a web page. Inside each program’s preferences there