Posted in Technology on April 25th, 2003 No Comments »
Interland was having routing issues for awhile this morning.
[7:49am iacas@Gaia:~] % ping nslog.com
PING nslog.com (64.226.43.134): 56 data bytes
^C
--- nslog.com ping statistics ---
712459 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
Oddly enough, my neighbor (Daria), using the same ISP and the same connection (but a 24.* IP, while mine at some point in time was bumped [...]
Posted in Technology on April 24th, 2003 6 Comments »
Eric Nick points out that Mario Kart for the GameCube has been announced. YES! I previously wrote about Mario Kart, but I have one question not answered by the preview page linked to above: will it allow Internet play? I'd be interested in seeing who's better: the Nickster or myself.
Awesome! This starts this day off [...]
Posted in Technology on April 23rd, 2003 3 Comments »
What the flying fuck does this mean:
To succeed with this service, and as a company, Apple needs to tempt the other 97 percent of computer users.
So I suppose the, oh, 27+ years that Apple's been in business make it a non-success? That they won't be a success until they get above 10% market share? All [...]
Posted in Technology on April 17th, 2003 7 Comments »
Kasia is wondering what to call software developers. She puts forth three main titles: programmer, software engineer, and hacker. Frankly, I'm not wild about any of the three.
Posted in Technology on April 14th, 2003 2 Comments »
I've been noticing a lot of people signing up for the FSS Mailing List today. Now I know why. On Friday's Call For Help, the show Chris Pirillo used to run, Leo Laporte mentioned that he may show how to run a screen effect as a background this week. Brad, author of BackLight, which does [...]
Posted in Technology on April 13th, 2003 2 Comments »
I agree with Sven-S. Porst in his rebuttal of Dave Weinberger (who thought his 2.1 megapixel images were 830MB) on the issue of whether to capture larger images or smaller images from a digital camera.
I've always taken my images on the highest quality setting available. I think of it as insurance. CD-Rs are cheap enough [...]
Posted in Technology on April 11th, 2003 3 Comments »
The comments at /. are fairly positive so far.
Wow. I have goosebumps. Wow.
Will it happen? I don't know. But even if it doesn't happen, what's this news story already accomplished? It's reminded people of Apple's anti-DRM stance. It's reminded them of their digital hub strategy. It's reminded them of their iPod. It's reminded them of [...]
Posted in Technology on April 11th, 2003 No Comments »
Proving that some people are bigger geeks than others, KahunaBurger has figured out how to read his email on his TV via his TiVo. I'm still in the "can't use the home media options because I, like Vinay, have an SAT-T60.
Posted in Technology on April 11th, 2003 1 Comment »
I wake up this morning to find that Apple in talks to buy Universal Music Group!?!?!?!
According to the paper, Apple is in talks to buy Universal Music, one of the world's 'big five' record labels, from its troubled parent Vivendi. The Mac maker has yet to make a formal bid for the company, though negotiations [...]
Posted in Technology on April 9th, 2003 7 Comments »
I was watching Sports Night (episode 40, "Draft Day Part 1") when Jeremy said "what is a choreoanimator?" He was asking about Jenny, his porn star girlfriend (played by the incredibly cute Paula Marshall of the now-gone Hidden Hills).
I wondered what the heck a choreoanimator was as well, and so I Googled it. Turns out [...]
Posted in Technology on April 7th, 2003 5 Comments »
This site, and all of my others, will be down for about 30 minutes tomorrow morning. After that, they should reappear at the new IP: 64.226.43.134. I'm not sure how long the propagation will take, but feel free to edit your hosts file after 10am EST to get to the new server.
Do I expect everything [...]
Posted in Technology on April 7th, 2003 No Comments »
It seems TiVo Desktop is out. iTunes, iPhoto, etc. on your Series 2 TiVo. Because I have a Series 1, and because it's been modded (added an extra 80 GB drive), and because it's a "DirecTiVo" (TiVo + DirecTV receiver), I won't be partaking of the joy here. Oh well.
Posted in Technology on April 5th, 2003 3 Comments »
MobileTracker has a little ditty on the possible Boston Mobile Phone Ban. It was my understanding that you could only be punished in NYC if your phone rang. Am I misunderstanding the NYC law?
Posted in Technology on March 24th, 2003 8 Comments »
It seems that Chris Pirillo has picked up a GameBoy Advance SP. I got mine last Thursday and have been playing some golf - Mario Golf from the old days - on it. José recommends CyberTiger so as soon as I can find that for $14.99 or so I'll pick up a copy. I've got [...]
Posted in Technology on March 24th, 2003 3 Comments »
Nicholas Riley, Steven of Panic, and others are getting into some HipTop development. The SideKick as it is called by T-Mobile is easily one of my favorite gadgets even though I have little "real" use for it - I have a cell phone and a laptop, after all. However, when an SSH client comes out, [...]