Technology

Yesterday Google released their Desktop 2.0 which does not only the local searching of email and files, it also has a nifty “sidebar” system which allows you to use plugins to show everything from your adsense profits, latest email, latest news, weather, system stats, etc. I’m not 100% convinced that this sidebar system will be […]

Anyone else having really crappy Shaw service lately? I’ve seen my cable modem jump offline and then back on again at least once or twice a day and am getting 13% packet loss sometimes. Hopefully it’s not just me, cause Nothing Has Changed since it was working fine….

I’m not sure if I should be flattered or pissed off. It’s 10pm, this weeks 24 is over, and I figure I’ll have a quick game of killing people online to wind down for bed. My pings are aweful, so I run iftop on my server. I’m seeing a lot of downloads of images from

Kudos to Raskal for pointing out WinAVI for use in creating a DVD from an AVI. I had checked out other methods which involve about 80 steps, that you keep notes on bitrate calculations, running one program to extract audio, another for video, another to encode, etc, and I think I gave up around halfway

Was out with Dana and Wim the other night and we talked a bit about getting bugs fixed. I was saying that I never got the “feel” I could get a bug (in my opinion) fixed in IE. It was suggested that I talk to the IE Team about it. My point was that MS

Gregg has had enough with the desktop search already. Users have enough problems with computers as it is. I think it’s an interesting idea, but is it really needed? So much of what we do these days have moved online, and many apps that are in common use already have ways of managing and finding

This site will be going offline sometime wednesday or thursday as either Shaw cuts my connection to move it to the new place or I move all my computers. Should be back up in a couple of days max though, and the DNS should be less of a PITA this time. Just an FYI.

For the last few days I’ve had some really odd windows problems. Not sure if they are related to XP Service Pack 2, but I haven’t done a huge amount of installing or modifying of the system since I installed XPSP2. Basically the system is fine until I leave it overnight, and then when I

Dana is always railing on people to not run as administrator on Windows unless you have to (ie: installing software). I’ve said before that right now that OS/X does it the right way, basically implementing a system wide ‘sudo’ setup (though Fedora/Mandrake and other Linux distros do the same thing). Anyway, Mike found that software

Finally found a use for the Microsoft Security CD I got a few months back. I know that Service Pack 2 for Windows XP is kinda out and wanted to give it a bit of testing before I commit my machine to it. Cautious sometimes I am. So I load up a fresh windows XP