Technology
Mobile Experiences: Is the iPhone really a Phone?
Mobile Experiences: Is the iPhone really a Phone? Once the hype has died down I expect that we’ll see video consumption on iPhones and growth in video downloads – via WiFi networks, not mobile networks become the growth area. This growth in digital downloaded media consumption plays to Apple’s strengths in computers and software, and … Continue reading
Changed DNS on wireless router at home to OpenDNS
After some strange connection behavior over the past few days, I switched the dns on the wireless router at home to OpenDNS and everything works fine now. I thought that might be the problem when I was able to receive email through Outlook without any problem, but resolution of host names through my browser was … Continue reading
Ask Me
Ask Me I was reading the Economist the other day, and I saw this Blackberry ad with a guy holding a bicycle. I checked out the bike first (bike nut that I am), and then I realized it was Rob Vandermark of Seven Cycles holding the bike. I wonder how many people have used a … Continue reading
Converter FAQs – VMware
Converter FAQs – VMware Convert Physical Machines to Virtual Machines – Free!Use the intuitive wizard-driven interface of VMware Converter to convert your physical machines to virtual machines. VMware Converter quickly converts Microsoft Windows based physical machines and third party image formats to VMware virtual machines. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for to convert … Continue reading
Twiki
I just set up Twiki for our company intranet: http://twiki.org/ Using a VMware VM using a Twiki install on Debian Stable: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev.TWikiVMDebianStable This was the first time I set up a VM, and it was very cool to see a Linux boot up screen within a VM on VMware server for Windows. It also saved … Continue reading
Al Gore’s American Life | Photo Essays | TIME
Al Gore’s American Life | Photo Essays | TIME The thing that strikes me about this photo isn’t that Al Gore’s desk is overflowing with books and papers, but how close his three monitors are to the edge of his desk. The monitors appear to be cramming his keyboard and mouse space, and if he … Continue reading
Birthplace of Silicon Valley in shambles | The Register
Birthplace of Silicon Valley in shambles | The Register I’ve driven past this building many times, but I never realized it was the home of Shockley Labs. My office used to be a short walk to 844 E. Charleston which is only a few miles away right off San Antonio. This address is significant because … Continue reading
Radmin Rocks
Since Timbuktu Pro won’t work on my new HP Notebook with Vista Premium, I installed Radmin 3.0. This application works very well. Immediate bonuses to the program are: 1. High level of security 2. Speed 3. Works on Vista 4. Viewer is free. You only need to pay $49 for each of the computers you … Continue reading
Downgraded to Spamassassin 3.1.7 and using zen.spamhaus.org
I “upgraded” from Spamassassin 3.17 to 3.18 on Monday afternoon. Reading the message boards, I saw that Spamassassin 3.18 has been letting through a lot of spam for some people that upgraded, so I’ve reinstalled Spamassassin 3.17 and it appears to be filtering spam again. I also changed the rbl xbl-sbl.spamhaus.org to zen.spamhaus.org. I came … Continue reading
Flushed bayes database, relearned spam/ham for Spamassasin Bayes and turned off autolearning
I think the autolearning had poisoned the Bayes database, so I flushed the database, relearned spam/ham and turned off autolearning.