Those that know me are aware that I am a huge proponent of open source software for a number of reasons. In particular, I have become enamored with the Mozilla Foundation and their flagship offerings-Firefox and Thunderbird. They are both great products. I have also detested Microsoft Outlook and it’s susceptibility to viruses. It isn’t [...]
It’s always nice to see a piece of work that makes you remember how feeble your skills are. Keeps you hungry and always wanting to get better.
Within the last several days, Apple released a point update to its iTunes music jukebox software. Why then would it possibly be the beginning of the end of radio as we know it? Podcasts. Before I begin, let me reiterate why I think Apple is possibly on of the greatest innovating entities of the modern [...]
Don’t know what to think about the Michael Jackson trial. It sounded like there was some fairly damning evidence against him. Of course, the boy’s family seemed to be very flaky at best. I think he may have actually been molested, but he, nor his family, had any credibility whatsoever. Either way, Jacko has some [...]
You know you’re tired when you wake up on Sunday morning and start scrambling because you think you’re late to work.
It’s been nearly a month since I last posted. Much has happened since then, both in my realm and out. The following is a listing of just some of those things: Work. Brother-in-law married. Work. World of Warcraft. Work. World of Warcraft. Very busy indeed. Bryce has started crawling, which is quite fun. Things are [...]
I was delighted to see Apple has finally announced Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger”. If you haven’t read about it, do so. It is going to change a lot of people’s minds about the way they manage data. This is what I’ve been waiting for to order a new Mac mini so that I can [...]
One of the workstations at the office got sick from some bad RAM and crapped out over the weekend. Fortunately, we got 3 year warranties on all of the machines we purchased from HP. I called their toll free support number and was, amazingly, only on hold for a minute or two. The polite, yet [...]
I installed KDE 3.4 on my SUSE 9.2 desktop. The install process was painless, as I was able to update through YaST now that the 3.4 binaries have been added to the Suse servers. Unfortunately, when I rebooted after the install, I was greeted with several I/O errors and a nice long period of non-responsiveness [...]
Saw this over at Slashdot. Apparently, the FBI is making a habit of cracking WEP encrypted wireless networks (WEP is probably the most common form of network encryption for average home users). If I was them, I wouldn’t exactly be announcing what I was doing. If you use WEP to encrypt your network move to [...]
