Technology

Anyone out there know how to fix the “iTunes Library file could not be saved (error -1450)” that happens under windows? I’ve seen a couple of posts about it, but nothing useful, just a bunch of “realplayer rocks/sucks – itunes rocks/sucks” arguments. Nothing on the Apple support site either. I’ve removed/re-installed a few times, removed […]

Looks like DRM is more and more infringing on fair-use rights, here is a case of HBO targeting PVRs based on Windows Media Center. Basically HBO is setting a flag that tells media center that it’s not allowed to record it. This of course doesn’t affect me if I use a VCR to record the

Well, today I finally made the plunge of actually starting to set up the new hard drives I bought at Christmas. I played around a lot with EVMS and LVM under VMWareas a way to maintain the disks, and add or remove space (and devices) as needed. Basically the situation I have is this. I

Last night I took this server down for an hour or two for some upgrades. First of all, it got de-dusted, and I discovered even the hermetically sealed P160 case is subject to dust and spider webs 🙁 I backed up my RAID5 data array to an external drive and then installed the drives I

A few months ago, Yahoo! aquired Konfabulator, software that creates little mini applets on your desktop. For several months, nothing happened. Then a new version arrives. It has a bunch of changes and improvements to the various widgets, along with the expected integration of various Yahoo! functionality into the calendar/mail/weather widget. All fine so far.

Gotta give props to my buddy Dana, who recently release Scorpion Software’s latest tool, a Firewall Dashboard system that runs under windows, and takes firewall data from either the windows firewall or anything that logs to the WELF format. He’s even had a very nice review over at TiGra Networks (though the thumbnail images are

So Microsoft has announced that a new feature in Vista will be something called the Vista Restart Manager (/. discussion). Describing what this is in the article: “If a part of an application, or the operating system itself, needs to updated, the Installer will call the Restart Manager, which looks to see if it can

I have been having some problems with Firefox not wanting to play flash or quicktime over the last week, and with the recent release of Firefox 1.5 release, I figured I’d do a full uninstall and reinstall to make sure everything is installed properly. First thing to do is backup your profile. Hell, back it

Got a bit obsessed today with tiny apps for my USB thumb drive. Started with this link, which I installed on my 512mb PINE thumb drive a while back, and never really used it. I brought the drive in today to move some mp3s from my work computer to my home computer and found that

So if you don’t know what TiVo is, it’s basically a turbo charged digital VCR that lets you watch TV your way, and I’ve yet to hear from someone who has one that doesn’t like it, or who would go back to TV the “regular” way. Recently it’s been announced that TiVo will be available