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Anandtech's Monthly Hardware Reviews
AnandTech: Weekly Buyer’s Guide: Entry Level System – May 2004. A great resource, Anandtech is bascially doing weekly guides to hardware. Every month they cover Entry level (week 1), Mid-range (week 2), high-end (week 3) and overclocked (week 4). This month, the recommendations are: * CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ retail or AMD Mobile Athlon…
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More Advice for nVidia cleanup
eDimensional, the reseller of i-glasses had this to say about getting drivers to work: # Go to nVidia “cleaner”:http://download.guru3d.com/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=167 and get the nvidia cleaner. This file will clean the drivers from your system. We have heard from other users that this program works well to get rid of any old drivers that are still on…
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Starting off fresh to debug nVidia driver problems
OK, to really figure out what is wrong with an installation, here is what you have to do: # Guru3D.com Forums – How to properly uninstall detonators/catalysts. This is apparently a must. These drivers really leave junk everywhere. Read the guide above first # “Driver Cleaner”:http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/. This is a shareware program that cleans up junk…
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eDimensional Glasses Don't work
Stereoscopic 3D Virtual Reality Homepage – Complete Market Surveys of 3D-Glasses VR-Helmets 3D-Software. Well, I tried these eDimensional glasses. Plugged it in, but with the latest nVidia drivers, I get an instant blue screen when I start Windows XP and then get blown into some strange video mode where the screen is blank or blinking.…
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Debugging Firefox
Firefox Help: Extensions. I’m really liking Mozilla Firefox. The extension architecture is amazing. You get all the great features. The biggest problem is that extensions are buggy and it is hard to figure out how to reset the application. Even an uninstall won’t help. Nor will cleaning out the registry. It turns out the real…
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Choosing the 70-200 vs. 80-200 Nikon Lense
Well, Alaska is coming up as I pointed out earlier, need a great lense for taking those nature shots. Also, the kids are in enough sports now that a good high quality lense would really let me capture some great moments. Here are ones to consider. Thanks to David Ruether – SUBJECTIVE Lens Evaluations (Mostly…
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Binoculars
Leupold Wind River Katmai Binoculars. We’ll be headed out to Alaska pretty soon this summer so time to get some equipment to really enjoy it. We had a cheap set of compact binoculars but lost them. Also have a nice image stabilized set for boating. In looking at Outside Magazine, they rated these Katmai’s as…
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Marketing is Not Mystery Meat
Marketing Playbook. Well, folks have been saying heck, why don’t you write down all the stuff you’ve learned. Well, thanks to John Zagula, a few hard earned lessons on marketing are now going into print this fall. Check out the Marketing Playbook if you are interested in figuring out this crazy thing called marketing. No,…
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Atom vs. RSS
XML Syndication Supporters Mulling W3C Move. I’ve never gotten to understand the deep issues in this debate. XML is so easy to read (check the RSS 1.0, 2.0 and Atom feeds on this Blogs as an example), but maybe time to start thinking about it. Some folks like “Steve Gillmore”:http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1413403,00.asp have argued that RSS and…
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Textpattern Installation
_Don’t you love those packages that don’t stick a how to install somewhere up front. Here’s what I’ve been able to glean: # Textpattern Support Forum / I am lost Help!!!. Download textpattern_g118a, unzip it (I’m assuming you’re on Windows.) Set up a MySQL database w/ your host (mine had cPanel which let me set…
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Blogger Coding
the blogger code. Fun idea, take a survey and summarize how nerdy you are with a code. Mine is bq. B8 d++ t+ k++ s u f+ i o+ x e+ l+ c– FWIW, reminds me that I once taught Connie LISP, so know when she says bq. (geekp) I can answer bq. t And…
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Moblogging: WAP and SMS Blog Entry
“Joi Ito’s Resource”:http://radio.weblogs.com/0114939/outlines/moblog.html#. Joi Ito has a great list of applications that allow you to take SMS and push it via an email interface onto a blog. wapblogger – a WAP interface to Blogger, LiveJournal and other smart weblog-style tools. Hey in the course of installing all these new blogging tools, I was reminded of…
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Quick Review of MT Alternatives
Here is some deeper drill downs base on comments on Movable Type RIP | Metafilter. Folks realy like WordPress (only manages a single blog though), ExpressionEngine, b2evolution, textpattern. NEed to check them out. Others are Pivot, but the top votes are WordPress and ExpressionEngine, so here are notes about each and I’ll put up trial…
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Sony Fires Back
Ars Technica: Sony unveils music player to unseat the iPod’s dominance. Well I’ve been thinking about getting an iPod Mini, fortunately more choices are arriving. The new Sony VAIO Pocket VGF-AP1 (boy, they love those long names) sounds pretty cool. Main issue I’m sure is that it uses a strange format called ATRAC3 that I…
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Democracy and India
Democracy triumphs over conventional wisdom in India? | Metafilter. Amazing to me, but sometimes good does win over xenophobia. The fact that the BJP lost in India to the Congress is an amazing thing.
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Cool new Laptops
Well, my trusty Compaq N600c is now dead (it doesn’t recognize batteries) and my old Toshiba 3440 gave up the ghost long ago. I thought for a while I didn’t need a laptop, but what to do on business trips, so in the market for new ones: * Two Hot VAIO Laptops States-Bound: X505 and…
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Thoughtful comments about MT
Teal Sunglasses: Movable Type 3.0. Smart words from chuqui. More about what’s happened with MT. Main points are you have to be careful about the loyalty in your customer base. While you can say its no big deal to leave the first blogging community behind, from my own experience, you have to be super careful,…
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MovableType 3.0 Released: I'm so sad
Well, all good things have to come to an end. MoveableType will now “cost”:http://secure.sixapart.com are essentially $150-$900 for the personal weblogs that I manage right now (this site, Geekfishing.net and the related sites). The real issue here is whether they should charge or not, but they are making a classic “averaging” mistake. That is, getting…
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Creating a private blog
Comprehensive guide to .htaccess- intro. Well, blogs are designed to be public, but what if you want a private one that no one else can see. There are a bunch of methods, but the .htaccess file is the easiest I’ve found for Apache on Linux (what my hoster uses).
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Learning about Longhorn
Longhorn Developer Center Home: Conference In A Box. Smart idea with a hat tip to Scoble, this is a complete information in box about Longhorn. Lots to go through, but worthwhile.
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Webby Awards
The Webby Awards: 2004 Nominees & Winners. Always cool to see who is doing cutting edge web stuff. The Webby’s are one place to look. Some are not surprising (ituns for ecommerce, google for best practices). Others were new and interesting: * “Tolerance.org”:http://tolerance.org. Won for activism. * “POV Borders”:http://www.pbs.org/pov/borders/index_flash.html. This is about four teenagers crossing…
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Bloglines is cool
Bloglines | Most Popular Blogs. This thing is a combination RSS reader in the sky and a blogrolling application. YOu can find the top blogs for instance. YOu can also see when there is an update. THey have a notifier that runs in OSX, Windows or within Firefox. Interesting to see the top blogs. I…
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Cool new utilities from Hack the Planet
Wes Felter’s Hack the Planet Weblog. Wow, is guy prolific, some great pointers to links: * “Hymn”:http://hymn-project.org/. This enables you to play songs out side of the itunes environment (e.g., Unix). * “Dothan Overclocking”:http://www.x86-secret.com/articles/cpu/dothan/dothan-7.htm. It’s in French, but the gist of it is that the new mobile Pentium can be overclocked to 2.4GHz. At that…
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Playing with Blogger
OK, I just realized I’ve been blogging since 2002. Amamazing its been two years. My early posts were stuck on blogger, so here they are: * Tongfamily. A small site * “Rich Tong”:http://richtong.blogspot.com. The old main site * “Connie Mao”:http://conniemao.blogspot.com. Connie nascent site. More up there as I play with this tool.
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Bloglines for Mozilla Firefox
Don’t Back Down: Extending Mozilla. I’m beginning to really love this browser. The CSS edit is really cool way to understand CSS and the RSS Reader extension is amazing. “Bloglines”:http://www.bloglines.com/. Now check out bloglines which add blog support for it. Very cool. This is a free utility that keeps track of RSS feeds fro you…
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Lense Lust
A Long March To Revolution: AFS 70-200 mm f/2.8 G ED IF Nikkor Reviewed. Well, this is the top of the line lense from Nikon. Just shipped, this is Vibration REduction and costs a cool $1,600 from B and H with $150 cash back offer, so its about $1,350. Something to wish for. A few…
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Rich Tong's Livejournal
Rich’s Journal. Saw a bunch of entries on LiveJournal. Inspired me to create a site up there so I can be authenticated when commenting up there. A nice freeware application.
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Prince bundles CD and concert tickets
Furdlog :: Prince’s New Distribution Model. Well that’s an innovative idea. bundle your CD with a concert ticket. Why not. It’s 18% of his sales right now.
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Blogger Refresh
phil ringnalda dot com: Holy Crap! That’s Blogger?. Wow, blogger gets a big refresh. Google hasn’t been asleep. Something to track and try.
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XP setup problems: F8 is your friend
CHSAFE: Getting into Windows Safe Mode. _George my buddy has had lots of problem getting his for XP computers working with a whole host of problems._ Some problems have includes having the right drivers. Why doesn’t Windows know about this. He’s also got a strange CD-ROM problem. Intermittent recognition that I don’t understand. What happens…