Technology
Using TimeLeft to remind me to work out every hour
I’m using TimeLeft to remind me to do pushups or pullups every hour.
Internet Explorer 8: Released today
Link via Microsoft Chrome has been fast, but it doesn’t have a master password. I’m using Firefox right now as my default browser, but this is probably worth taking a look – even if only to see how it renders certain pages.
macosxhints.com – How to clean the Mighty Mouse’s scroll ball
Link via macosxhints.com I’ve previously used Apple’s suggested method of cleaning a trackball by holding it upside down and pressing hard on the ball, but the dirt and grease had built up on the ball to a point where this method didn’t work anymore. From the link above, I found out the idea of using … Continue reading
Script to check whether IPNetSentryX process is running on Macintosh OS X
I recently installed IPNetSentryX on our Macintosh OS X 10.4.11 webserver in order to filter out abusive IPs. In order to make sure this firewall is running all the time, here’s a script I’m calling every minute via cron: # check daemon ps ax | grep -v grep | grep IPNetSentryX # if not found … Continue reading
Postini Google Message Security Rocks!
I’ve spent so many hours trying to optimize different mail servers over the years to rid myself and my employees of spam. I always hoped for a holy grail to provide a very effective filter against spam, but nothing ever really worked. This morning I switched our spam and virus filtering over to Postini/Google Message … Continue reading
Coder’s Half-Million-Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush Is Still On
Link via Wired.com Apple’s iPhone application store is as crowded as a Beyonce concert, with more than 20,000 apps available. But one independent developer still managed to rake in $600,000 in a single month with a single iPhone game. Ethan Nicholas, developer of a tank artillery game called iShoot, told Wired.com he quit his job … Continue reading
Motorola Surfboard SB5101 and Comcast
The main reason I purchased the Motorola Surfboard SB5101 was because I kept getting “connection lost” while playing Horde mode on public XBox Live. There is nothing more frustrating than progressing many levels on Horde mode and then suddenly losing connection to the game. My other Internet services were all working fine, but I decided … Continue reading
Missing ifstate file caused twiki debian virtual appliance not to boot up in VMware
After a reboot of VMware, the twiki debian virtual appliance wouldn’t come up for me. After a lot of research and troubleshooting, I found out that the ifstate file at /etc/network/run/ifstate was corrupted or missing. After adding recreating the file and adding the two lines: lo=lo eth0=eth0 the virtual appliance booted up without a problem. … Continue reading
Use QAM Remap to set up HDHomerun for Beyond TV 4.9
Beyond TV stopped recording for me last week, and I couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t bringing in any channels. The Beyond TV 4.9 upgrade seemed to go smoothly, but then it suddenly stopped tuning. I went through a lot of reinstalls of both HDHomerun and Beyond TV, but the channel tuning still wasn’t working. … Continue reading
Apple using H.264 codec to play YouTube videos
Much has been made of the fact that Flash won’t work on the iPhone or iPod Touch. I was wondering how these two devices were playing YouTube videos since YouTube uses Flash technology to display videos on personal computers. After some googling, it turns out Google also converts uploaded video to the H.264 codec in … Continue reading