Archive for June, 2005

Gizmo Project.com Put to the Test

Today we tried out Gizmo, being prompted by the minute from Michael Robertson of mp3.com and Lindows/Linspire. It’s pretty nice. He’s touting it as a better alternative to Skype, which has become immensely popular as of late. I’m glad to see that there’s going to be some competition. If I got some decent hardware, I could easily use this to replace a landline and even cellular phone. The internet connection doesn’t need to be extraordinarily robust. Anything equivalent to the speed of what a 33.6k modem would provide, or faster, would be fine.

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Anonymous comments

are not really anonymous. WordPress was messing them up. Something is wrong with get_currentuserinfo(), but I’m too lazy to really look into it. So I just commented out that line of code. It works. Leave a comment (with your name and website URL).

New WordPress is out

I’m still having some problems with comments on here.

On megabytes and gigabytes

Joseph created his Gmail account today.

When he saw the front page, he thought Google was providing 2344 megabytes of storage to be shared among everyone in the world. That’s hardly anything, he thought.

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Update for Windows XP KB898461

Size: 477 KB

This update installs a permanent copy of Package Installer for Windows to enable software updates to have a significantly smaller download size. The Package Installer facilitates the install of software updates for Microsoft Windows operating systems and other Microsoft products. After you install this update, you may have to restart your system.

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Search Terms - July 2004

The last time I did this was over a year ago!

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Combining small RAMs for something big

The Apple Mac mini has only one RAM slot, and for good reason: its purpose is to be small. When I picked up a 1 GB stick and popped it in, I was left with the original 256 MB stick that came with it.

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Water Powered Clock

I’m looking through the “Gifts for Dads” section on ThinkGeek.com, and I’m quite disappointed.

Every product looks good when they talk about it in the description, but when I do some research on it, I find it’s not quite what they claim.

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Books to read: Catch 22, A Clockwork Orange

I haven’t read these books yet, but almost everything I can find on them is positive. When I have some time late in the summer, perhaps I’ll pick them up. Here’s my new complete list of books to read.

Mac OS X on x86 Hardware

Some quotes that struck me, for one reason or another, from around the ‘net:

Apple have betrayed us all never again will i use a mac and no more will they be as pc users flock to buy osx for pentium 4s i wish i was there i would have bood

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