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Senegal Roaming
Connie is headed out to Senegal. Here’s the mobile operator. I need to get her the right SIM card for her tri-mode phone. Wow, is this complicated. Fortunately John did some research on Spanish SIM cards and such, but Senegal is a little bit farther afield. Here is what I recommend Sentel GSM – Services.…
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Google and DMOZ Directories
Submitting a Site to The Open Directory Project. Every want to get into Google’s directory system. Right now, my buddies aren’t in it. Turns out that Google uses the Open Directory structure, so all you have to do is click on Add URL in the right spot in DMOZ and hopefully you’ll get linked in.…
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Wireless Rockets
Geekfishing Blog: Rocket Update. Check out Adrian’s modification to our group Christmas present. It used to be a model rocket that could take a few still photos at a few hundred feet. A hundred hours later, it now has a webcam in it with 802.11 that can take real time photos all the way up.…
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Microsoft and the community
Pushme-pullyou. Great thoughts by Joe on what to do about the “community at large.” It is nice to know there are folks inside the ‘Soft who are wondering about what to do about the external world. my initial reaction is this: I know that to a great degree, Microsoft employees are incredibly enthusiastic about the…
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Microsoft is jealous (and scared of) of Slash Dot and Scripting News…
The Scobleizer Weblog. Great comments from someone in the blogging community about how Microsoft deals with the influential masses. I can see both sides of the story having been on the outside for three years now. The debate is fasicinating.
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Windows XP ClearType tuning
Serdar points out that there is a great Cleartype tuning wizard available from Microsoft that makes things look even better on an LCD. A great tool I think.
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Trek 5900
. Serdar, asked me to post photos of my main bike. It’s really not a 5900 technically, but a builtup OLCV 110 frame, but its easier to explain it to folks as a 5900 with totally different components. It is a nice bike, although I like the 2002 colors quite a lot. Main thing is…
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Darn it…network gone on Shuttle SS51G
Rats, my great new Shuttle SS51G has a problem. It’s network card seems to have given up the ghost. Nothing like spending two hours trying to figure it out. Checked the network cable with a good machine and that works fine. Behaves as though there is no connector there at all. Can’t see any packets,…
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Drafting to Decrease Wind Resistance
Thanks to Road Bike Rider. They have a great news letter. Here are some interesing factoids I learned. It explains how the pros can travel at 25 mph for days on end. Of course they produce twice the wattage (200 watts for a mortal vs. 400 watts for a pro), but being in a big…
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Video Conferencing
Paul Maritz and Eyal both want to do video conferencing over at Ignition. This seems like a classic opportunity for Rich “The Geek” Tong to learn another inane subject. I certainly don’t think we should spend $2,000 for some hardware when we don’t understand all the issues (like why can’t we just use a PC…
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Paul Krugman
The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page. I had a chance to meet him last summer. Incredibly smart guy. Amazing to be in the same room with him, Voelcker and Blinder.
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Secure blogging by email
Sam Ruby: Secure Blogging by Email. How sad, Sam tries to do blog by mail with comments and the next thing you know, you get spammed because of all those spyders looking for addresses. The address to send a comment to his blog entry is blog-1172.
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Building A New PC
I’ve already covered building a small Shuttle machine. Here’s the specification for a traditional desktop machine that is state of the art right now: ASUS P4PE. Tom’s Hardware confirms just how great this board is. The 845PE is the chipset and includes on board RAID and just about everything else. 2.53 or 2.66 GHz Pentium…
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Gamer Hardware
Now that I’m back into gaming, you kind of really need that high end hardware. Interesting to note that I’ll spend about 10x more for gaming stuff as I would personal productivity and about 5x more for digital photography and movies. Maybe that’s a hint about where the consumer business really is. In any case,…
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Ximian Connector For Microsoft Exchange
Ximian Connector : Buy and Install. Now that Ignition has Exchange 2000, I can try the Ximian Connector. This will let my Linux machine access Exchange. Wish me luck. Now, if only I could figure out why attachments in Ximian always show up as unknown, I’ll have made this a useful machine in a Windows…
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Trackbacks
tima thinking outloud. : The Next Generation of TrackBack: A Proposal. Amazing that trackback is only 6 months old. This is some great thinking about their future directions. They are very fundamental I think. It is the equivalent of a 2-way hyperlink which is just great. Thanks to John for pointing out Tema and all…
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Buying a camera: Nikon N80
An update from early February with more on accessories. Since last December, buying a 35mm camera has been on the list. So, now seems like a good time with the summer coming up. I’ve narrowed it down to a Nikon N80 (a.k.a. F80 outside the US). The price structure is interesting. To quote “Phillip Greenspun”:http://www.photo.net/nikon/n80,…
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State of the LAN Hardware
It’s been a while since I’ve studied the LAN hardware market, but it’s time now with all the many wireless standards coming out. The best overview I’ve seen comes from Small Net Builder Holiday 2002 Guide. This site BTW is amazing. Great reviews and tutorials. Other information includes: Router Reviews. It’s been a while since…
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Happy New Year!
Chinese New Year – 2003 is the Year of the Goat -2002 was Year of the Horse. Happy New Year. Here’s a great web page with lots of facts about it.
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Columbia Disaster
Saltire : Blogging by Steve MacLaughlin. A blog with all the details about the Columbia. Incredibly sad, our thoughts are with the friends and families of those that were lost. The Space Shuttle Must Be Stopped. I love space travel I really do, but as I read pieces like this, I have to say it…
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Cannondale Bankrupt
From the Roadbike Rider newletter and Bicycling.com. How sad, hopefully, it means they stay in business as is. It is amazing that both Trek and Cannondale are still American companies. Speaking of Cannondale, the company filed for chapter 11 reorganization on Tuesday. It will be taken over by Pegasus Partners, one of its two largest…
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Mini-ITX
mini-itx.com – news. Adrian and John Ludwig both point out how cool these new small form factor motherboard are. I’m going to build a new PC for Connie and for work. Maybe this is the way to do it. I love the Shuttle, but it is still a toaster. Let’s go to a real notebook…
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Trillian: All purpose IM
Cerulean Studios’ Trillian. Recommended by Cnet.com, this is a great tool that integrates ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo and IRC all into a single client. No more running everyone’s IM client anymore. Neat.
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Career Thoughts
Questions: – When have you enjoyed your work the most? What are/were the circumstances? Well, I’ve been kind of lucky these last dozen years or so. I will say that until 1988, I was a year-a-job kind of guy. Just kept ripcording out of things that I couldn’t see make sense. But I got lucky…
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Email to Blog got easier!
DentedReality: PHP Implementation of the Blogger/MoveableType XML-RPC APIs. Thanks to Gary Burd for his tip about using the Blogger API to add this email to blog stuff. He suggested a search on blogger API PHP to find a library and darn if he wasn’t right. Here is one that I can work off off. Another…
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Linux for Windows users
Since I get asked to evaluate lots of Linux software in my new job, I thought I’d install Red Hat Linux 8.0 and see how hard it is to get it to work in a Windows world. The Linux folks have made great progress, but there is no easy transition/migration guide. I’m a little surprised.…
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Tacops
Now Tacops is a different story. It is based on an actual simulator used by the military and is written by an ex-major in the US Marines. So it is perhaps too realistic. Tacop Hints. So you end up with very realistic advice as from CD Magazine TAcops Hints continued. Or this second list War…
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Battlefield 1942
OK, I’ve been playing this game for a little bit to get the hang of it. Not the most realistic game. You have to look at TAcops for those, but kind of like Doom plus a little realism. Here’s a good list of hints that I’ve found: Battlefield 1942 Hints. The basic hints. Also has…
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Portmagic
Pure Networks: Port Magic. Hey give this one a try, manages ports for you. Great for playing Internet games. Gave me a great excuse to buy all the latest games. Go 1942!
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New categorization ideas
PuzzlePieces on Blogosphere. wow, what a great list of the interesting new ideas about categorization on the web. Don’t you just love the ’net and blogosphere? Post your ideas on LazyWeb, and anything onto the Internet Topic Exchange (new, the “first public implementation of the Ridiculously Easy Group Forming concept”). Find physically near websites with…