• Archive for February, 2005

    MythTV is a beautiful thing

    by  • 2/8/2005 • geek • 0 Comments

    MythTV might be a little bit ugly to get up and running, but it’s a great thing when it finally works as advertised. I had originally succeeded in getting some functionality out of the system, but an upgrade from Fedora Core 2 to 3 broke everything, and I wasn’t able to get the display out [...]

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    Severe MSN outage, NOT caused by worm infestation.

    by  • 2/8/2005 • geek, life • 0 Comments

    Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed that a “significant” number of its MSN Messenger users have been experiencing intermittent outages for about a day. The company remained vague on the nature of the outage, blaming it on an “isolated issue that we’ve located in the data center,” according to a company spokeswoman. She would not elaborate on [...]

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    CMS helps you communicate mistakes more efficiently

    by  • 2/6/2005 • geek, work • 1 Comment

    Tools don’t necessarily eliminate mistakes, and often all they really do is enable you to make more mistakes quicker than ever before. CMSWire touches on a common problem that exists in many more places that just in Content Management Systems. They suggest that; The biggest mistake in content management is writing for the organization and [...]

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    How does google KNOW?

    by  • 2/4/2005 • geek • 0 Comments

    Okay, this confuses me… I found this excellent image in a somethingawful.com Photoshop Friday today, and copied it locally … Ninjas and native Americans – who knew? The image is named “Matthew138_3″ and the EXIF information says nothing about natives, native americans, or indians. There’s nothing on the page, in the comments, etc that references [...]

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    Windows is secure… and we’ll prove it…

    by  • 2/3/2005 • geek • 0 Comments

    CNet reports that Microsoft has been showing off their source code to governments in order to show how secure they are. See, Microsoft DOES understand how source access can help prevent security questions arising, but they use this as a way of proving that they’re more secure than Linux… Open source is wrong because it [...]

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    Crazy gmail…

    by  • 2/3/2005 • geek, life • 0 Comments

    I had noticed that Gmail had made the method for inviting people to join the system easier, with a text box right on the front page. What I didn’t notice was that along with that improvement, they handed me 50 invitations to hand out. So, if you need an account, let me know.

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