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Continue reading →: Captcha: Telling humans apart from machines
“Captcha”:http://www.captcha.net/. Bill Gate mentioned this in his Davos talk, but the idea is that if you don’t want spam send something back which computational hard for a machine, but easy for a person. Here is the CMU version of this. Ticketmaster uses this as does quite a few bulletin boards…
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Continue reading →: Interesting Trends: Knoppix, USB Flash, OceanStore and RDF
Interesting to see how two trends could make the PC quite different from what we know it. Beside Google, “Citeseer”:http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs is an incredibly useful way to find related academic documents. Give it a try. # “Knoppix”:http://www.knoppix.org/ . Now that modern BIOS let you boot from just about anything. Not just…
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Continue reading →: Photo Printers: January Update…
OK, based on a couple of reviews at popphoto.com and also photo-i.co.uk, here’s a list of printers to consider at the top end: * Epson 2200. $600 street. The grand daddy anmd most folks still love it. * Epson Stylus “R800”:http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/interactive/Epson%20R800/. $400 street. Brand new, has 8 inks. Can also…
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Continue reading →: HP Printer Cartridges…
We have an old HP Deskjet 970Cse. Printer cartridges are amazingly expensive at $25 for large black (45A) and $50 for large color (78). “Omnipro”: http://store.omni-biz.com/. Trying a place that sells remanfactured cartridges for $10 and $15 respectively a pop. A little bit of a risk, but interested to see…
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Continue reading →: Opera Browser
Been using this browser called Opera. Pretty nice. Very fast. Also allows multiple subpages in the same browser and it restarts from where you left off. Very convenient for us shoppers who close the browser and then want to get back to where we came from. Also has a nice…
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Continue reading →: What is MyTues, QTFairUse and Audio Hijack?
Chaosmint :: QTFairUse, MyTunes, and Protected AAC Explained. I’ve been using itunes for a litle bit on the Mac. Because it does such a good end-user job, its hard to see what’s really going on underneath. Great notes from Chaosmint about what is really happening: * File Formats. There are…
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Continue reading →: Entourage Problems
I’ve been using Mac OS X for a while now. Finally getting used to it. Main issue is that Entourage seems very slow and also seems to crash. * “Entourage Unexpected Quits”:http://www.macfixitforums.com/php/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=OfficeX&Number=370362&page=19&view=collapsed&sb=1&o=&fpart=1. Another in a series of great errors messages. Have this with both Entourage and Ecto (a offline blog…
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Continue reading →: Popular Photography Buying Guide
Popular Photography Magazine Buying Guide. A good review of things photographic. I’ve used it to get a quick overview of at least good products. The printer review is particularly good. As is the digital SLR review. Here are some notes. First, all the printers they thought were pretty good. Epson…
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Continue reading →: Command prompt at the toolbar
a little ludwig goes a long way: Command Prompt Explorer Bar. Nice find from Ludwig, command promots on the explorer bar. I use command line stuff all the time.
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Continue reading →: Ghost Recon
Ghost Recon Jungle Storm. Got Ghost Recon as part of my video card bundle. Wow, how much these tactical first person games are using the machines. Amazing how graphics and so forth. Its an old game, but here are some links to folks modding it: * “Walkthroughs”:http://www.ghostrecon.net/html/recon.htm#wt. A detailed walkthrough…
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