Monthly Archives: September 2005
Decent removable drives?
Back in 1998, at eGroups, the founders were keen on these removable hard drive trays that were inexpensive. They were also prone to failure since they were so cheap. This effectively made them useless. With SATA here, and USB 2.0, … Continue reading
Web Frameworks Are ‘Getting It’
A lot of noise has been generated about Ruby on Rails over the last year, and it is only getting louder. I decided to check it out as well as the clones of it for PHP and Python. In fact … Continue reading
Why I like the STL – NOT!
This is an error I got when compiling some code I wrote. Can you guess what the issue is? error C2440: ‘initializing’ : cannot convert from ‘class std::_Tree
Harry Potter
I pre-ordered the latest Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but my daughter and wife took priority in the reading order. It’s been at the house, but I didn’t have the inclination to pick it up and … Continue reading
Linksys WRT54G Update
Well, I had a need to put a couple of computers on my network, without running wires to them. They were both in the same place so I tried my hand at using a Netgear WRT54G. Well, it worked fine … Continue reading
Hip Tip: Making Acrobat Reader Work in FireFox
For about 2 months, I’ve had this issue where I couldn’t preview Adobe Acrobat PDF files in FireFox. Whenever I clicked on the link to a PDF, I would get a blank web page. Today it finally bugged me to … Continue reading
Electric Honda Civic
As I was driving into work today, I got off of 101 and was stopped at the light behind this older Civic hatchback. I noticed a big sticker on the back that said “AC Propulsion”. I thought it was just … Continue reading
Identity 2.0 – Another from Terry
Here is an interesting presentation to check out. I too have thought about Identity. It’s a big problem and it probably won’t get solved soon. It will get solved, and it will be an interesting day when that happens. It … Continue reading