Forum: Bits & Bytes

Thought I'd start a new thread rather than infringe on the other any more. This is my bandwidth so far today - started right after I posted in the other thread. 2 xboxes onine gaming, a few youtube videos and regular internet browsing, and msn

Holy CRAP! Been rearranging things on the USB drive to give the latest SOHO beta a whirl. In a nutshell? WOW!! KDE has come a LONG way. A VERY long way! A lot of changes I'm still sorting out. Widgets, modular settings on the desktop, and a plethora of other changes make this something that I'm...

Just received this from Comcast tonight. Rat bastard &*&$^#*%*^%#'s!

Multiple participants? Does it work as well as point-to-point?

Finally, someone came up with a really easy solution: http://clement.beffa.org/labs/projects/middleclick/

Recursion is freaky and damn funny. As many of you know, a recursive method is one that calls itself, either directly or indirectly. The author of the textbook for my Program and Data Structures class has a sense of humor about it. He lists some rules of recursion, and the first two are pretty...

Remote support session, helping someone out with an Excel spreadsheet. They were using Calculator to add up some numbers to enter into the spreadsheet. :lol:

Is it me or has facebook taken away a shit load of privacy settings? My friends are in groups, US family, UK family, Online people, school friends, etc etc etc. I used to be able to assign privileges to each group - ie my ex students weren't able to see my friends list. Apparently that is now gone...

Ugh.. I've been playing around with KDE4.4 in the SOHO beta, and I have come to the following conclusion. IT SUCKS! Everything has changed, including the easy to set options we had in 3.x. Want to play with the desktop settings and change your wallpaper? Good luck in finding the option. Want...

Long story short, the company I work for needs to provide a backup solution for one of our clients to backup data other than that created by our program. I am looking at MozyPro. It appears that I can manage that setup from my office as well as check the backups without logging into the client's...

http://blakehuth.com/linux-mint-8-review-project-netbook/ I may try this with mine.

Going to the Apple Store later today to pick out our next toy. Chances are we'll get the 27" iMac (which we wouldn't get for about 3 weeks due to screen issues being resolved right now) or maybe just the 21.7" if we have no patience for that wait. :) There is an outside chance we might select...

There's an interesting NYT article dealing with the ongoing animosity between Google and Apple. As we all know, Apple recently sued HTC for patent infringements. This isn't so much about a patent issue as it is a domination issue. In the article: This isn't so much about technology as it...

Folks, need some help. As you know I'm behind a firewall and they use bluecoat. They block everything and not exaggerating. I had a proxy but with a static ip it was a matter of time before they caught that one. Soooo, what I'm looking for is a proxy service that will work from home and...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822151033 Been using this drive for a few days now and I couldn't be happier. It's TINY, just slightly bigger than a wallet, and it's silent. Perfect for the notebook as it won't take up much room at all in the backpack. I bought it...

We picked one of these up a few weeks ago, after doing some pretty extensive research on what few dedicated Windows Home Server boxes are available (HP, Acer, and Asus seem to be the main players at this point). We were looking for a network storage solution that: 1.) Easily streams music to...

WOW! Talk about a sweet setup. Was getting a kernel panic error after the initial installation. Appending rootdelay=10 to the startup string allowed the kernel to detect the USB device and finish the boot sequence. Would have preferred to install SOHO, but Version 6 is still in Beta and...

And not necessarily hardware, but software as well. While some may say "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", there comes a price when you try to squeeze as much life as possible out of outdated technology. Many corporations refuse to give up IE 6 as their browser. Some of the excuses I hear are web...

Want to take a screen shot and PrtScr doesn't work? Get your desktop looking the way you want for the picture and then open a terminal. Go to the directory you want to write the file to, and then type: import -window root filename.png If you don't want the terminal window in the shot, modify...

For twitter users only. Brizzly is REALLY nice for web platform. Translates short urls in to real ones on the fly. Shows pix right there in the web scroll (no need to click on any links). Real time scrolling as well. If you want, I can get in you in through beta (I think, since there's a link...

When a site offers both and my RSS reader is compatible with both, which should I pick? Or does it matter?

Well, we all thought Apple was getting pretty stupid with the recent chain saw run on applications in the Apple Store, now they've gone off the deep end in an attempt to stave off any threat from Android devices. Apple has filed a patent infringement suit against HTC for a myriad of blatantly...

Nice layout! Makes me miss all that crap! NOT! http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/10yearsafter/all/1 Surprising to me is how the losers have bounced back after making some atrocious decisions.

http://www.fastcase.com/ Interesting/smart business move. The desktop version is pay while the iPhone version is free. The service is "barebones" in that they don't offer headnotes or the KeyCite/Shepherds analysis on each case. However if you are just looking to quickly check in on some law or...

I saw a commercial recently for a car, a Ford I think. The feature that grabbed my attention was that the CD player simultaneously rips the tracks to onboard storage as mp3's so that you don't need the physical disc, anymore. Nice feature, I thought. However, I got to wondering what happens...

Wow. Just....wow. This anecdote has so much fail in it, if I was "Gerald", I'd probably have quit on the spot.

TiVo Is Slowly Dying - TiVo - Gizmodo It's always strange when a company that's become synonymous with its market—like Kleenex to tissues, or Xerox to copiers—starts fading. And that's exactly what happening to TiVo, whose subscriber level has dropped to where it was in 2004. As the article...

A fascinating read about bit.ly, which is the standard used by Twitter to shorten URLs. The service has numerous security vulnerabilities (which I knew about). However, what I wasn't aware of was the business side of the service and how they claim they can drive traffic to your site. It's not as...

Finally gave up on the quest to obtain a drive caddy for the notebook, and pulled the trigger on this. For the price, I just couldn't pass it up. This drive will be solely dedicated to Linux (Vector Linux 6 as well as the upcoming VL7 x64). I'll be posting reviews on the drive as well as the...

Used to be, when I had multiple windows minimized to the task bar, floating the cursor over the taskbar displayed a miniature version of the window, which I could then click on to maximize it. I did something because now if I have multiple minimized windows, hovering over the task bar only...

Not so much about the delay, but man.. Do you get the feeling this guy isn't too impressed about the iPad? :rofl: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1595373/apple-ipad-delay-software

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7H0K1k54t6A

Well, I was in Nashville the past couple of days on business, and my boss told me I was getting my annual bonus and how much. So what did I do? I ran down to the Verizon store and bought a BlackBerry Storm 2! I'm going to sell off my BB 8330 Curve, so I'm going to recoup a lot of the $179...

I've created a user-defiined function to validate a column in a table (Luhn formula for calculating mod 10, if you want to know). I've got a short script to loop through the rows to run the validation against the function but I don't like the results. Ideally, I'd like the result set in ONE...

I may be late to this party but just found this source.

A design firm in Denver is holding a mock funeral today for IE 6, in light of several major websites ending support for the browser this month. Does anyone here still use it? I was looking at the stats for my domain, and about 8.5% of all visitors this year are still using it. Tom, what kind of...

I have been looking for a replacement laptop for months, mostly spent justifying a new purchase. When my wife bought one last December we ended up buying a Toshiba 16 inch. My satisfaction with that put Toshiba in consideration for replacement. Although I kept looking at Dells and HPs I was not...

I am sure there will be plenty to talk about on this one. http://pleaserobme.com/