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Archive for March, 2005
4-Sight Fax and software vision
A new version of 4-Sight Fax has been released. I used this product for years back in the OS 8 days. It was never great, but was the best fax server solution for the Mac platform at the time.
It’s since been resold to several different developers and never really found a life. [...]
Thursday, March 31st, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Sand art
Seth linked to this incredible sand art demo the other day. It’s a pretty amazing performance.
Monday, March 28th, 2005. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>
First trackback
Hey, I finally received my very first trackback. Thanks, Seth. O, yeah…and Seth has a book out, too.
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends, Technology | 1 Comment »>
RE: Lame software
Joy, I’ve stricken myself with more lame software. This time it’s Quickbooks, which — according to the Intuit line, requires you to have at least “Power User” rights on a client machine to run the software. Luckily, this can be worked around, but still, it’s pretty lame. Especially for something selling itself [...]
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>
New Security Feature in Conversant
Macrobyte rolled out new security features in Conversant today. For the average non-technical Joe, I’m sure blogger, Live Journal, etc, are fine — but I pity the geek blogging in anything but Conversant. You don’t know what you’re missing. Incredible flexibility.
Thanks to Clark for sponsoring developement of this feature.
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005. Posted in Conversant | No Comments »>
That joke is so tired
I do as much of the client support I have to do at work from my desk as I possibly can. Which is a lot, thanks to VNC. But, I often do end up visiting someone’s desk to do some work on their machine, install some software, or whatever.
And everyone, I mean everyone, [...]
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>
Game time
After taking a little time off from my game habit, I’ve finally broken down and bought Half-Life 2. I already know I will love this game. The frustrating part is waiting for 5 CD’s worth of data to install on my machine, and then wait for the Valve “Steam” system to properly log [...]
Friday, March 18th, 2005. Posted in Games | No Comments »>
ESPN.com Scoreboard
ESPN’s NCAA Scoreboard got a nice update this year. No more 30 second refreshes, it’s now updated via javascript, and flashes score changes and time updates. Very nice.
Thursday, March 17th, 2005. Posted in Sports, Technology | No Comments »>
Audible
I’ve been enjoying my trial membership to Audible.com. I don’t think I’ll keep it up, since the monthly fee is a little more than I wish to carry — but it’s neat to have nicely bookmarkable books on my iPod for the commute. Interestingly, I find myself evaluating books based on length in [...]
Wednesday, March 16th, 2005. Posted in Books | No Comments »>
TiVo and Comcast
Wow! Some good news for my TiVo stock. I’m not entirely sure it’s really great news for TiVo. Despite 2/3rds of their subscribers coming via DirecTV, only 10% of their revenues do, and I expect that Comcast negotiated similar if not better terms for their deal. At least is sounds like [...]
Tuesday, March 15th, 2005. Posted in TV, TiVO | No Comments »>
Apple Rumors
I think Dave may be right that it was a bad move for Apple to sue the rumors sites. From a purely PR point of view. I think they are, however, in the right. I don’t see any reason why any journalistic privilege should be extended in this case. I also [...]
Friday, March 11th, 2005. Posted in Apple | No Comments »>
Hardware
I’ve had a lot of hardware problems to deal with at work this week. Dead drive one day. Dead NIC today, etc. Basically, any day I have to get inside the case of a computer, I consider a bad day. I’d really rather I didn’t ever have to open up a computer.
Thursday, March 10th, 2005. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>
Dern Terps
They went and lost to Clemson for the third time this season. Looks like no NCAA for my boys this year.
Thursday, March 10th, 2005. Posted in Sports | No Comments »>
CBGB faces closure over unpaid rent
CBGB may close soon. CBGB is a total dive, but one of the classic dives that spawned the NY punk scene in the late 70s. I worked there for a while I was at NYU — mostly for the on-the-cheap record label Hilly was trying to start up at the time, and in [...]
Tuesday, March 8th, 2005. Posted in Music | No Comments »>
Postfix on Panther Server
Good things to know if you support Postfix on Mac OS X Server (Panther):
postsuper is your friend. The most common recurring problem I seem to have with Postfix is it getting out of control when some corruption occurs in it’s queue. The postsuper command will let you delete specific messages from the queue, [...]
Monday, March 7th, 2005. Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »> « Previous Entries
