A notebook of various projects.
From Yahoo news we hear that there is a “Rickrolling” worm hitting iPhones:
iPhone fear as ‘Rick Astley’ worm spreads – Yahoo! News.
This is a ittle misleading on two counts.
First, the worm can only stick to the phone if it has its operating system modified to allow unauthorized software to be installed (commonly referred to as [...]
Is this a common problem? You are in a book store, or a record store (yes, I still go to record stores), and you see something you like but you’re not sure if you bought it before? Probably not too common, especially for a modern music purchaser who downloads from web sites and doesn’t go [...]
OS X has a couple of ways to bypass the normal starup process from your main boot device. One extremely useful one (for reasons discussed in a later post) is to start up OS X in “Firewire Target Mode”. If you hold down the “T” key when powering up, the machine will start up as [...]
Important Video insert test:
This install of WordPress is 2.8 – a number of minor versions from where I was. The work done on this product is pretty impressive, the Dashboard and management tools behind the scenes are slick, well designed, and easy to use. The plugin and widget implementation have removed almost all my desire to tinker with [...]
Google Voice – Full Review – Reviews by PC Magazine.
I’ve been using this for a few weeks – interest increased once they added the transcription service. Agree with much in this review.
Today’s sync dumped the new v3 operating system into the phone. Lots of improvements, including cut & paste, and the greatly anticipated text search through Email. But, I’ve been extremely happy with the phone since I got it so I wasn’t really waiting for a lot of new features. Sideways Email viewing will be nice [...]
Speaking of talking to a friend, I’m sitting here working on my computer and Skype woke up with my first phone call. And worked remarkably well!
I was using my corporate issue, utterly devoid of style (see 6th paragraph), Dell Cinderblock 9000 laptop, which apparently has a built in microphone. While compensating for the [...]
Was able to get phpMyAdmin working with little trouble. The configuration file is pretty easy to go through, and the documentation is very good.
Most of the time is spent with Apache config making sure the HTML source is only accessible on the local host. Not much of an issue since the machine isn’t [...]
Well, how exciting is this! Apparently, Microsoft is forming the MIIS Alliance (more). It’s nice to see some interest from a major IT player in older 16-bit interpreted programming languages. Maybe we should fire up the ol’ MV10000?
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