Here’s a quick take on my new T610 phone: it’s fine so far and it has some nice qualities. I was looking for something that was: – Small – Bluetooth – Decent user interface – Synch with Outlook contacts I got all that, and with the rebate I get back $20 on top of the [...]
I am debating turning off all comments on this blog because of the nightly barrage of bogus comments left by spammers. The comments invariably have some kind of banal “keep up the good work!” text but the URL is for something commercial and slimy. Often, there are several different comments from Pete and Mary and [...]
After upgrading to Outlook 2003, I still couldn’t get it to remember my passwords or connect reliably. So I was determined to get some satisfaction and went through what seems to be the sole remaining avenue for tech support on registered products at Microsoft without paying extra: the web support form. My expectations were low, [...]
If your wife’s black velvet dress got into the wash at the same time that your son’s silly putty was left in a pants pocket, and somehow the two came together in an apparently permanent attraction, and you were wondering if there was any way to get it off…it turns out the answer is WD-40.
I’ve begun thinking again about the next generation of Internet apps and what they’re going to be built on. The model we’ve used since 1995 remains fundamentally broken: interleaved client and server code in files on the server…just painful. I’m amazed we’ve gone as long and as far as we have, but for a number [...]
I’m beginning to form some opinions of my own as I get to the point of applying it (Flash MX 2004) for real tasks. After a steady diet of books (I recommend Kerman, Moock, and Underdahl’s titles for MX and MX 2004) I have struggled to let go of a Java orientation long enough to [...]
For some reason, this info wasn’t available in one neat place. Assuming you’ve already got Gentoo running and need an Apache + PHP setup, here are the steps to follow.
I was shocked (!?) to discover that Outlook 2002 will not mail merge to a version of Word earlier than itself. A small dialog box pops up, essentially saying “pay for an upgrade now or forget it.” I did neither, and got nice labels after figuring out a way around it. But you need Access.
I am in love with my new Hush Technologies mini-ITX system. It’s pretty much silent (fanless) and very attractive in a small, solid design. I ordered mine from LogicSupply and have had great service from them as well. I wanted a near-silent machine for 24×7 family server duty, holding music, images, and shared files.
One of my few complaints about Thunderbird is that it can sometimes hang up opening new IMAP folders after being in use for awhile. After poking around awhile, I became convinced that this had to do with the caching of connections, which defaults to 5. Setting it down to 1 seemed to help the problem…but [...]
What a fantastic device. Canon has clearly got a grip on what’s needed and how to deliver it. I like this camera for a lot of reasons, but most of all because you can just take crisp and colorful pictures easily.
Like the dog that it is. I am stunned by the time sink this is, compared to Mozilla Thunderbird. I have been struggling to get to a stable configuration for Outlook 2002 + IMAP to my server. I am not inexperienced at this. I know when a piece of software is a dog, and this [...]