I’ve been running RedHat Linux 7.something on an old test machine at home for a few years. About a month ago I upgraded that machine to Redhat 9. Nice operating system, it seemed to work fine. So, what did I do? I just erased and installed Fedora Core 3. The install went much more quickly […]
Archive of posts filed under the Technology category.
.ico plugin for Photoshop
A very cool free! plugin for Photoshop CS: ICO (Windows Icon) Format. It’s very easy to operate.
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
You can either pay around $80 for the Handbook of Applied Cryptography, or you can download it from the author’s web site at http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/.
Microsoft doesn’t think things through
Microsoft has a web page describing the benefits of Windows XP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/experiencemore/default.mspx. But if you go that page in Safari (under OS X) the page cancels itself from loading. Yeah, that really makes me want to switch back to Windows. I found that MS page after googling a link mentioned in this article at Wired: […]
Pay an extra fee for your domain name
You don’t mind paying an extra $1 or so on each domain name you register do you? Good. That’s what ICANN thinks too. ICANN is the group that oversees domain name policy. Read ICANN partying like it’s 1999 for more on the subject. Me, I think it’s stupid to charge approximately 10% more for each […]
iPhoto Improvement
iPhoto needs to be able to do subcategories (sub-albums). I have many albums related to family events, it would be great to be able to hide them when working on an album related to my Travel photos. So I could have 4 or 5 main Albums (Family, Friends, Travel, Work) and then have albums under […]
The use of Colors on the web
An interesting article on colors on the web, Color it effective: How color influences the user, from Microsoft.
Odd HotSync Error
I just tried to sync a large file to my 512MB SD-card. And got this nice, helpful error message: ” – Unexpected error number 16385.” I don’t know which is worse, that I got an error at all; or that the error I got wasn’t the one that the Palm was expecting.
Google Suggest
A very cool addition to Google, it’s Google Suggest. Don’t ask me to explain, just try it and be amazed.
We got an iMac G5
We just got an iMac G5 from the Apple Store. Definitely check out the Special Deals section of the Store. We saved $350 there. The machine itself is really nice, it’s super quiet, enormous LCD screen. Of course, the bad thing about totally ditching Windows is having to get all new software. I’ll post a […]