Archive for January 24th, 2007

Laptop Battery Technology

It’s amazing stuff. My laptop battery tells me the percent charged, remaining capacity (in Watt-hours), full charge capacity, voltage, current, temperature, cycle count, manufacturer, manufacture date, first used date, serial number, and so on.

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True Bayesian Estimate

Someday I’m going to figure out how this owrks and what it really means. From IMDb Top 250.

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Firefox Laptop Backpack

I am very, very close to ordering a Firefox Laptop Backpack. There’s an international version which is a shiny gray color, but I’m going to go for the North America one which appears to be black.

It’s About Time - WordPress Upgrade

I’d been running 2.0.1 since it was released, and I skipped over all the intermediate releases until today’s release: WordPress 2.1. This seems to be quite a major upgrade. It seemed to go smoothly, but it’s hard to tell with these things.

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USC Email’s Limited Space

Unfortunately, USC gives each email account only 75 MB storage space. I feel like I’m living in the dark ages of the Internet, when hard disks were expensive and bandwidth even more so. I quickly maxed out the space limit, but it’s not a problem thanks to Google Gmail. For my own curiosity, I shall record here that 75 MB of emails came out to 5441 messages. I’ve now transferred the emails to my local machine using Mozilla Thunderbird and IMAP. At least they offer POP and IMAP access– a big plus.