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
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
It’s been two months with my 12 inch powerbook and I’m still quite pleased with it. Unlike my AMD based machines which, by their nature, are confined to a room upstairs, the Powerbook stays plugged in in our living room. It’s been greatbeing able to have it on while we watch tv to quickly check
If you’re not careful with how you handle log files on your server, you may be surprised one day if it crashes because the file grows to the file size limit on your operating system. To prevent that, you’ll want to implement some sort of log rotation system. On most linux distributions, this is most
I haven’t been able to post much in the last week. On top of trying to get enough work done so that we can go to LA for the MLS Cup, one of the hard drives on our server had to be replaced last Friday. Since then, I’ve been recovering/learning about how to install the
GovTrack is a website that makes it easy for interested parties to keep tabs on legislators and bills under consideration. The range of tools they offer looks complete and I’m so far impressed by it.www.govtr Welcome to GovTrack.us, a nexus of information about the United States Congress. This site is a crossroads for data on
Thunderbird 0.9, the mail client from the Mozilla project, is now available. If you’re wondering what’s new in this release, Asa details two of the most useful new features available: saved searches and message grouping. Evolution, the outlook clone from Ximian, has saved searches/virtual folders too. It’s a feature I didn’t quite use as much