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Handy Currency Converter
Universal Currency Converter(tm) I was on an Australian site looking at Panel PCs and was reminded that most folks don’t know about this great currency converter.
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Blog Spam
HOw depressing, the spammers have figured out how to spam a blog. That’s why I’m getting a dozen comments a day from folks who sell viagra and then use the backlink feature to link me to their site. Sad, I’m going to have to turn off comments pretty soon as I can’t keep up with…
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Great places in London
Thanks to “Adrian”:http://smithstuff.net, I have at least a few places in London that make life easier for the frugal business guy. A little accidental tourist, but here are some places: * “Hilton Green Park”:http://www.londontown.com/LondonHotel/Hilton/Hilton_Green_Park. This is a small hotel near the center of London. Not a mega hotel, but 18 townhouses remodelled together to be…
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Skype and NAT tunnelling
_A discussion of Voice-over-IP and a good explanation of why folks needs something that penetrates firewalls_ Skype Firewall and NAT (Network Address Translation) traversal: Non-firewalled clients and clients on publicly routable IP addresses are able to help NAT’ed nodes to communicate by routing calls. This allows two clients who otherwise would not be able to…
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Windworks is Great!
Windworks Sailing Center. Connie and I just did the second round of classes on sailing over there. They have a really great series called “Adventure”:http://www.windworkssailing.com/adventure_lessons.htm Lessons where you don’t have to sit a class room and have the instructor say, please say “PORT” class, and you say, “PORT”. Instead, you read the book at home…
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Another Senseless Death…
Ken Kifer’s Bike Pages — bicycle travelogues, bike safety, bicycling advocacy, and cycling humor.. Sad to say, Ken got hit by a drunk driver while biking at home. An eclectic guy, sad to see. A great site he has/had.
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Arrgghh. Ensim to Cpanel
Arrgghh. Mark over at “TQHosting”:http://tqhosting.com has switched from ensim as the control panel for shared sites to cpanel. Have to say cpanel is incredibly powerful, but now ever path name has changed. Mark was nice enough to run scripts to flip over nearly everything, but gallery, so now I’m reinstalling that. Need to remember how…
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Getting Visioneer 7600 to work…arrghh
I’ve been trying to get our old Visioneer 7600 to work and have lost the CD. Thank goodness for “dll-files.com”:http://dll-files.com or “downloadthis.com”:http://www.downloadthis.net/dllfiles.html they actually have all these random DLLS that various folks spill everywhere. The required files that are needed are: * maxkrnl.dll * www.dll-files.com – download maxcodec.dll is a good example. Used by PaperPort…
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Peer to peer voip
Hey Ludwig, here’s the next big thing, it’s a peer to peer voip service. Give it a try! Skype is moving like wildfire through my family and friends. Wow. Easier than e-mail and chat (now that they are garbaged up with features). [John Robb’s Weblog] Listening to Landslide by Dixie Chicks from Home (03:50)
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Firewalls won't work…
Good notes from Ray Ozzie about the problem with firewalls. Folks in homes and in business are going to discover this soon. Basically, you have to armor every PC since if you have one infected one, then someone VPNs in and the whole network is poluuted. My buddy, Jon Lazarus, has a good explanation. The…
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Security Appliance Market Statistics
Sales of security server appliances grew 10 percent year-over-year, as companies turned to low-end appliance servers dedicated to firewalls and virtual private networks, IDC says. [CNet News.com]
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My goodness, a record label that gets it…
I’m just not sure that prosecuting your customers and telling them they are wrong are a good strategy. Never mind what the law says, its interesting to me to see that folks download songs yes, but iTunes is doing well and most folks are happy to pay $1-2 for a ring tone for goodness sakes.…
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VOIP Really Does Work
a little ludwig goes a long way: NATs and VOIP. I’m amazed. Ludwig found he could just use his VOIP phone from his phone without dinking with his firewall. I wonder how Vonage figured this out? I bet Gary Burd: NATs and Internet telephony is right that what they are doing is having an intermediary…
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DNS Lookup and other handy tools on a web page
“DNS Stuff”:http://www.dnsstuff.com/. An incredibly useful site. It is has reverse DNS, whois, tracert all on a single page. I’m always losing those little command line utilities. _BTW, checkout the new winamp3 plugin that sucks down the current song I’m listening to while doing this blog and then uses Zempf to stuff it into the blog…
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More router logging tools
Link Logger. This is another logger for common home network routers. Interesting to look at and see what folks are doing. I’m not sure the average home owner is going to use this, but if there were an automated service that would be great. “DShield Are You Cracked?”:http://www.dshield.org/warning_explanation.php. A great little script. It checks the…
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Port Attacks
Internet Storm Center. As part of understanding what is going on, the Internet Storm Center is a pretty amazing site. Tells you what folks are scanning and where the attacks are. Pretty frightening really. Tells you the top attacked ports and what applications use them. Amazing that most of these are Microsoft ports: Top Attacked…
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How was this blog created
_Markl asked me how I created this blog._ A good question, so heres the equivalent of the “About” box: “Movabletype.org”:http://movabletype.org. This is the blogging software. They actually have a hosted service called typepad which is supposed to be very good. Very elegant stuff written in perl, so it is not a speed demon, but very…
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Galileo to crash into Jupiter
NASA – Historic Galileo Mission Nears End. A spectacular thing. There will be a web cast as the Galileo enters atmosphere of Jupiter. Hat tip to Metafilter
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Blog Tools Update
While looking at RSS Feed Readers, I also found that the blog clients have gotten much better. Here’s my quick review and update: * :: w.bloggar ::. This was the original blog client that I used. He’s been buys working on it and it now supports a whole bunch of blog tools using a standard…
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On time departure statistics
BTS – Airline Information – Airline On-Time Statistics – Detailed Statistics – Results. We are thinking about going to Hawaii and I was curious about ontime departure. Man, those folks at the Bureau of Transportation really have their act together. What an incredible database. You can actually look at 5 years of data on on…
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Your First Road Bike: A Guide
I’ve got no less than three people asking me about bicycles to buy. Here’s quick list for Peter, Tim and Brad. First, here are the information sources to look at in order of importance: # “Road Bike Reviews”:http://roadbikereview.com. This is a site that doesn’t seem to have become polluted with biased reviews like C|Net. I…
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Whale-Ho!
Maui’s Best Whale Watching Cruises | Pacific Whale Foundation. Here’s a blow-by-blow of every whale trip last year by the Pacific Whale Foundation. useful if you are whale-geek or if you are trying to figure out if there are going to be many whales during spring break this year 🙂
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Maui whale watching
Maui Whale Watching counts. Connie just loves these creatures and is dying to show the kids. Here’s a note from 2002 on when the whales are holding court. They are around january to May.
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RSS Readers
According to “Ludwig”:http://www.theludwigs.com, he only reads using RSS instead of browsing web sites the old fashion way, so I’m off to find the best RSS reader. Not easy to find I should say. Lots of developments since the last time I looked. Here are the sources: * RSS Readers (RSS Info). The top google reference…
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Santa Cruz Blur Fit and Build Kit Analyzed
OK, if Brad thinks the Blur is great, let’s have a look and see what I need: h4. Blur Sizing I’m 5′ 10″ to 5′ 11″, so the recommendation is medium with a 120 stem. The effective top tube is 57.7 cm (I usually ride a 56.1 cm and 120 mm stem on my road…
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Mountain Bike Review
Been in brain lock about buying a mountain bike. My good buddy “Brad”:http://www.thesilverbergs.com finally gave me a push. Here are some of his words of wisdom below. There are quite a few Santa Cruz Blurs now on ebay as the early adopters are getting their next bikes. The powercoat lists for $1300 and the anodized…
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Cool Utilities
a little ludwig goes a long way: Scott Hanselman’s Utility List. Cool utilities per Ludwig. Ones I liked include: * “Xenu”:http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html. Link checker that is pretty cool and works really fast. Nice for checking my blog. * “Command Bar”:http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/CommandBar.asp. A cool utility that lets you run command line utilities in the windows explorer. * “NetPing”:http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/netping/.…
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Codec licensing
Been studying a little bit the codec market and how it the whole thing hangs together. There are clearly folks who are doing open source development that doesn’t involve licensing. The two that strike me right away are “Lame”:http://lame.org and “Vorbis”:http://vorbis.org. I’m wondering what the other ones are. Here are some links based on a…
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Beware! Time Monolink Stem Bolts can break
Time Sport USA. I’ve got a brand new Time Monolink stem. It is amazing. 125 grams made of carbon fiber. Unfortunately, while hammering up a hill, one of the titanium bolts snapped right at the head. Wow, I’m lucky I didn’t crash. In any case, the nice folks at Time Sports USA actually answered my…
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Life without Madonna…or learn the banjo now
John Ludwig points out the music business is collapsing and “Joseph Lasica”:http://www.jdlasica.com/blog/archives/2003_09_08.html#001472 has some sage advice on the topic. Hard for me to imagine since I’ve lived my days in the world where music was so important and everyone wanted to hear the latest. Back to the days of going to clubs I guess. Seriously,…