Interesting things on the interweb this morning.
Grok Headline matches for Interesting things on the interweb this morning.
Interesting Things to Know about MySQL
Interesting Things to Know about MySQL
06/14/2004 07:21 PM"If you do a lot of tracking, you may want to write the information to
a Berkeley DB.
Contrary to the name Berkeley DB is not a database but a hash, or
there is an option for
b-tree format. MySQL can use Berkeley DB for the underlying table
structure. It's very fast,
and you won't get logs of your logs. If you're using Linux,
Berkeley DB is already installed
on your system. Ok, so how does one use Berkeley DB? Samples can
be found at the following
link. Look for berkeley
"IRAQ SARIN UPDATE: Blaster's Blog has
an interesting observation --
apparently, it can't be an old shell, as
some are claiming. And scroll down for
lots of other interesting stuff that
deserves more attention..."
"IRAQ SARIN UPDATE: Blaster's Blog has
an interesting observation --
apparently, it can't be an old shell, as
some are claiming. And scroll down for
lots of other interesting stuff that
deserves more attention..."
05/20/2004 02:30 AMWhen Things On Your Mac Do Cool Things
You Didn't Expect Them To... Or
Adventures In Mac-Based Audio
When Things On Your Mac Do Cool Things
You Didn't Expect Them To... Or
Adventures In Mac-Based Audio
01/03/2004 12:11 AMIf you play an instrument, write songs, sing, or wish you could do any
or all of the above, take a look at DigiDesign's amazing little Mbox,
a complete audio production system with many uses. By Bob LeVitus (Mac
Observer via MyAppleMenu)
""I’m not the kind of artist who feels
that I have a mission of any kind
whatsoever. The 19th century was about
that. What right do I have? In many ways
it robs people of a lot of things. I’m
an average enough person to point to the
things that I’ve..."
""I’m not the kind of artist who feels
that I have a mission of any kind
whatsoever. The 19th century was about
that. What right do I have? In many ways
it robs people of a lot of things. I’m
an average enough person to point to the
things that I’ve..."
07/13/2004 03:21 AM43 Things Web Service API on 43 Things
43 Things Web Service API on 43 Things
04/17/2005 10:05 PM43 Things Web Service API on 43 Things .. 43things adds web services
API
43things.com/about/view/web_service_api
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Good things, bad things
Good things, bad things
03/06/2004 02:03 AMGood thing: to have surge protection on your computer array.
Bad thing: kick accidentally the surge protection thingy so that the
wall socket becomes loose, and have a big, catastrophic power failure.
Good thing: to be able to read your blogs while eating breakfast
Bad thing: to drop a bun in your cereal, and have milk splashed all
across your laptop
Good thing: iTunes for Windows
Bad thing: Windows
Good thing: actually having sunlight in the mornings.
Bad thing: the mornings.
Good thing: upcoming go
-tournament (http://takapotku.suomigo.net -
feel free to come by and say hi!) next weekend.
Bad thing: not sleeping enough before the weekend.
Jack Valenti says stupid things --
really, really stupid things
Jack Valenti says stupid things --
really, really stupid things
08/03/2004 07:46 PMTim Wu has rounded up some of the dumbest things that Jack Valenti
said -- and he's found some real howlers, things that make Jack's
infamous condemnation of the VCR ("the Boston Stranger of the American
film industry") look like a walk in the park.
On the nascent cable industry, in 1974
"[Cable will become] a huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and
fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners
of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong
and unfair."
On the dangers on media concentration, 1984 Op-Ed
"Will a democratic society allow just three corporate entities to
wield unprecedented dominion over television, the most decisive voice
in the land? There are now only three national networks .... There
will never be more than three national networks."
On the public domain, 1995
"A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its
life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it
becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does
the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?"
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Thanks, Patricio!)
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05/20/2004 02:30 AMThe Interesting Yezidis
The Interesting Yezidis
09/17/2004 08:36 AM
Devil
Worship: The Sacred Books and Traditions of the Yezidiz , by Isya
Joseph, 1919. 'This is one of the only public domain sources of
information on the religious beliefs of the Yezidi, a small group
originally from the northern region of Iraq. Although they speak
Kurdish, they are a distinct population from the Kurds. The Yezidi are
notable because they have been described as devil-worshippers, which
has naturally led to constant persecution by the dominant Islamic
culture of the region ... They have many unique beliefs, such as that
the first Yezidi were created by Adam by parthenogenesis separately
from Eve ... ' New on
sacred-texts.com. This is an interesting article
This is an interesting article
12/04/2003 07:13 AMHow Much Is Privacy
Worth?
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Bad Name, Interesting Product
Bad Name, Interesting Product
11/17/2003 03:02 PM The Washington Post doesn't begin to describe what Koolspan, the
company with the bad name, does: But I spoke with Koolspan's vice
president of marketing at a conference a few weeks ago and got the
scoop. Koolspan is marketing a smart card solution that authenticates
users and encrypts data over Wi-Fi networks. The solution is designed
for small to medium sized businesses that don't already have a RADIUS
server for authentication. Customers must load software onto their APs
which allows the APs to recognize user keys and authenticate the
users. End users have a smart card that plugs into the USB port of
their computer. The card encrypts the data sent from the laptop. The
data is decrypted by an appliance that sits in the enterprise network,
where the data is sent onward. The card supports 802.1X and performs
AES encryption. The nice thing about smart cards is that they
essentially authenticate the user. A user inputs a password to release
the keys on the smart card. That means that it's virtually impossible
for two people to log on as the same user at the same time. Gemplus, a
maker of smart cards (or subscriber identity modules, SIM cards) for
GSM networks, is also making a solution aimed at securing Wi-Fi
networks. Smart card solutions have a better chance of taking off in
Europe where all cell phones already use SIM cards but it's a secure
solution that's worth looking at in the U.S....
Interesting reading
Interesting reading
04/04/2005 06:48 PM## Peter Drucker looks
at the big picture of the world economy today -- really four
economies, he says: information, money, multinationals and mercantile
exchange.
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For thirty years after World War II, the U.S. economy dominated
practically without serious competition. For another twenty years it
was clearly the world's foremost economy and especially the undisputed
leader in technology and innovation. Though the United States today
still dominates the world economy of information, it is only one major
player in the three other world economies of money, multinationals and
trade. And it is facing rivals that, either singly or in combination,
could
conceivably make America Number Two. |
## Cy
nthia Ozick reviews Joseph Lelyveld's memoir. I haven't read the
book, but the former N.Y. Times editor apparently did a vast amount of
legwork researching his own childhood. This is Ozick's discussion of
the limitations of Lelyveld's approach:
| |
...There is no all-pervading Proustian madeleine in Lelyveld's
workaday prose. Yet salted through this short work is the smarting of
an unpretentious lamentation: ''If this were a novel,'' ''If I were
using these events in a novel,'' and so on. Flickeringly, the writer
appears to see what is missing; and what is missing is the intuitive,
the metaphoric, the uncertain, the introspective with its untethered
vagaries: in brief, the not-nailed-down. Consequently Lelyveld's
memory loop becomes a memory hole, through which everything that is
not factually retrievable escapes. Memory, at bottom, is an act of
imaginative re-creation, not of archival legwork. ''Yes, I was
finding, it was possible to do a reporting job on your childhood,''
Lelyveld insists. Yes? Perhaps no. The memoirist has this in common
with the novelist: he is like the watchful spider alert to every
quiver on its lines. Sensation, not research. |
Well put. I think one of the reasons I chose, as a young writer, a
career as a critic rather than as a reporter was that I could not see
devoting my life to writing that was all "nailed-down." Reporting is a
necessary and valuable skill, and I have deep respect for those who do
it well; it's hard, hard work, too. But it will typically miss that
dimension of "the intuitive, the metaphoric, the uncertain, the
introspective." In American journalism as it is conventionally defined
by those who carve out the job descriptions, a critic's portfolio is
broader, and it's possible, under the right alignment of stars, to
feel as well as to record -- or rather, to record what one has felt
along with what one has witnessed.
## Apparently there's a movement afoot in the world of
writing about games to be less "nailed-down." It's called the "New Games
Journalism" -- "a narrative, experiential approach that
acknowledges the effect of the game on the player." I'll need to read
up. This was sort of what I had in mind 15 years ago when I began to
move my attention from the world of theater to the digital realm, and
thought, hey, why not try writing more ambitious reviews of
videogames? I'd just turned 30, though, and was already feeling that
the gaming world was one I would be less and less able to keep up with
as the decades advanced. (So right!) So I wrote one opus -- an
"experiential" discourse on the world of Super Mario -- and moved
on to broader terrain.
"this interesting do-it-yourself
project"
"this interesting do-it-yourself
project"
09/15/2004 09:31 PMAn interesting set of GC papers
An interesting set of GC papers
09/16/2004 03:06 PM Courtesy, indirectly, of the VEE workshop:
http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Steve.Blackburn/pubs/abstracts.html Looks like
maybe read barriers aren't as bad as I thought they might be. May well
be worth more investigation in getting infrastructure set up....
Interesting Thing of the Day
Interesting Thing of the Day
06/04/2004 03:50 AM
San
Francisco’s Terra Infirma and other
Interesting Things of the Day.
Putting the muse back
in museum was another that struck me with its focus on
unconventionally-themed museums, reminiscent of the roadside
attractions in
Gaiman's
American
Gods.
Audio feeds of
recent articles are available, and well read, but it seems that most
of the clips are intended to become available by subscription-only.
Regardless, many of the
past
year's articles make for fascinating reads. (via
bsag)
Technology Without Any Interesting
Technology Without Any Interesting
09/17/2004 02:32 AMTechTree Sep 17 2004 6:31AM GMT
"interesting article on WMD:"
"interesting article on WMD:"
04/27/2004 09:23 PM"has some interesting thoughts as well"
"has some interesting thoughts as well"
06/29/2004 09:15 AMinteresting commentary
interesting commentary
01/05/2004 01:10 AMceded the protections .. WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ? .. Sasha
Castel
coldfury.com/Sasha/archives/004549.html#004549
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Interesting: Googlert
Interesting: Googlert
01/22/2003 09:30 AMInteresting: Googlert
This looks neat. [_Go_]
Note: Currently untried by me. If I could remember where I stored
down my Google key, I'd probably even try it. Thanks to Andy for
pointing it out.
Interesting piece
Interesting piece
08/21/2004 08:16 PMchicagotribune.com/news/specials/elections/chi-040821kerry,1,681487
3.story?coll=chi-news-hed
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So many interesting facts to know and
use
So many interesting facts to know and
use
03/14/2005 05:38 PMThe amazing interstingness of miscellany, specifically Schott's Food
and Drink Miscellany has provided me with several hours of pre-sleep
delight as I've perused its pages in bed. Last night I discovered that
both the loganberry and the boysenberry are not in fact wild berries,
but derivatives of raspberries! Beneath the heading, "Epicurean
Eponyms," Mr. Schott explains:
LOGANBERRY · the sweet purple berry of the raspberry plant
Rubus loganobaccus · created by the American judge and
experimental horticulturalist James Harvey Logan, who developed the
plant (c.1881). Some forty years later the botanist Rudolph Boysen
created the hybrid BOYSENBERRY from the loganberry, the raspberry, and
the blackberry.
No wonder I've never seen a loganberry bush in the wild! I'm loving
this little book and all its wonders. Highly recommended for any
foodie or food-curious person.
"this interesting commentary on the
Democrats"
"this interesting commentary on the
Democrats"
12/16/2003 08:48 PMThe year of interesting IPOs
The year of interesting IPOs
06/26/2004 01:18 AMSunday Times South Africa Jun 26 2004 5:18AM GMT
Mobcasting, an interesting idea
Mobcasting, an interesting idea
02/01/2005 08:50 PM Here's a pretty interesting idea, and there's lots of tools now
sitting around to make this happen. Andy Carvin spoke about how he
started mobcasting (mobile + podcasting + smart mobs = mobcasting)
Basically, using free tools like Blogger,...
Interesting TiVO landmark....
Interesting TiVO landmark....
02/10/2004 02:47 AM
The close of Mr. Timberlake and Ms. Jackson's halftime
duet drew the biggest spike in audience reaction TiVo has ever
measured, the company says. Viewership spiked up to 180 percent as
viewers used TiVo DVR capabilities to pause and replay live television
to view the incident again and again.Interesting Debka post
Interesting Debka post
01/03/2004 08:22 AM Interesting Debka
post re: Al-Queda and a scheduled nuking on 2/2/04 of NYC.
Supposedly the original web site was removed from the Internet by the
FBI.
Play with Interesting Sites
Play with Interesting Sites
02/12/2004 11:32 PMHere are a couple of third-party services that libraries could take
advantage of to experiment with new services!
-
WINKsite
Alan Reiter highlighted this site
today because he used it to transform his Camera Phone Report
Weblog into a stripped down version suitable for mobile devices.
This free (for the moment), hosted service will work best if your
library has a blog because you can feed it the URL of your RSS feed
and it will automatically aggregate your content on your WINKsite.
Like Alan, I was able to create a WINKsite version of The
Shifted Librarian in about five minutes. You
can view what it looks like in this emulator on a computer or
you can go to http://winksite.com/jayhawk
/shifted to see it on your mobile device! Although the
software will eventually end up being sold to telecommunications
companies and middlemen, you can play with it now and add chat,
surveys, guestbooks, and more to your WINKsite, and you can even
create a pre-fed aggregator of feeds, say for local information for
patrons!
Will your people really use this now? Probably not. But it's fun to
play with, you could reach early adopters with it, and it
gives you a sense of how social networking, RSS, blogging, instant
messaging, mobility, and ubiquity will come together in the future.
Price to play: free!
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Furl
Furl is a web-based
bookmark site that's been getting a lot of play recently and along
with del.icio.us, it has been
mentioned by many librarians in particular (Library Stuff caught both of them early on). I'm still playing with both
sites, but Will Richardson is
taking a more
active approach:
"Better yet, Furl lets you
create a bunch of different categories for the links you save and then
it'll even spit out an RSS feed for each category. Now I knew this was
pretty cool when I read it, and I started playing with the idea of
using Furl to send cool links to the various departments at my school
(since that's one piece of my job description that I never seem to get
to.) Well, here ya' go. My newly created English Department site
includes a page
just for links that is filled with sites that I have "Furled" and
pushed to the page via the RSS feed. Again, not rocket science, but a
pretty cool new process that allows me to update pages without ever
going there. That in itself is a time saver, and the fact that I can
annotate the links makes it even better.
Now, let's take it a step further. Say I share my Furl login with a
number of my colleagues who may be interested in, let's say, the
campaign of John
Edwards. Whenever we come across some relevant info, we just furl
the page into the Edwards category and it automatically gets sent to
our aggregator or to that special page we've made to archive our
research. Or how about this...my school sets up a Furl account, and
every browser has the Furl It link on it's toolbar. Whenever anyone at
my school sees a page of interest on the Web, they add it to our
collective database. Pretty cool concept..."
So if your library isn't already highlighting new web resources on
your site (internally or for patrons), or if your reference department
needs a better way than Post-It Notes to share and
organize links, give Furl a whirl (or del.icio.us)!
Most interesting websites of 2003
Most interesting websites of 2003
12/30/2003 07:37 PMGoogle's Zeitgeist has been automatically tracking the changing
frequency of search requests since January of 2001, and the annual
version of the search ...
Portables at E3: From Interesting to
Awful
Portables at E3: From Interesting to
Awful
05/14/2004 04:35 PMAnother interesting observation about
parallels between GWB & JFK
Another interesting observation about
parallels between GWB & JFK
11/13/2003 10:09 AMNovember 2003, Part 2 - Jim Miller on Politics .. Jim Miller doesn't
think so
seanet.com/~jimxc/Politics/November2003_2.html#jrm1583
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Interesting Take on Voice Over WLAN
Interesting Take on Voice Over WLAN
02/19/2004 12:43 PMRadioframe is touting its indoor GSM system as better than voice over
WLAN: Radioframe sells a platform that extends cellular coverage
inside an office building and connects to the office PBX so companies
can use their cell phones inside the building. When users are in the
building, minutes are cheaper than outside on the wide area cell
network. The company's CEO argues that even though usage of the WLAN
in the building doesn't cost, the handsets are so much more expensive
than cell phones that it makes more sense to use a system like
Radioframe's. I did a story a while back on voice over WLAN and found
that the handsets cost around the same as standard wired office
phones. So the difference could come down to a decision about whether
a cell phone offers the same features and functionalities that workers
typically want on their phones in the office. Plus, the Radioframe CEO
didn't discuss how the costs of deploying and maintaining its network
compares to deploying and maintaining a standard WLAN....
Some interesting Blog statistics
Some interesting Blog statistics
05/24/2004 07:44 AMHow many people are starting blogs each day? That is a question
that the staff at Technorati
answered at their first ever developers Salon. The numbers are quite
shocking.
- 3,000 a day in January 2003
- 4,000 a day by that March
- 6,000 a day by June 2003
- 8,000-9,000 new blogs a day by September 2003
- 10,000 at the end of 2003
- 11,000 to 12,000 new blogs a day today
Along with those amazing numbers are some others. Very interesting
stats to say the least. [New Media Musings]
Laws from interesting people
Laws from interesting people
01/11/2004 02:42 PMEdge.org has asked a bunch of interesting people to formulate bits of
wisdom phrased as "laws" -- they're quite good.
Morgan's Second Law: To a first approximation all appointments are
canceled.
Brand's Pace Law: In haste, mistakes cascade. With deliberation,
mistakes instruct.
Sterling's Corollary to Clarke's Law: Any sufficiently advanced
garbage is indistinguishable from magic.
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Interesting Bits Of Panther
Interesting Bits Of Panther
10/28/2003 11:06 PMLet's take a look at some of these subtle changes in Panther and how
they work. By Adam C. Engst (TidBITS via MyAppleMenu)
this interesting column by Kristof
this interesting column by Kristof
03/19/2003 10:46 PMinterpretation is wrong .. Baghdad and Troy .. New York Times ..
separate .. helenic .. Troy
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Interesting New Tools at PHP Classes
Interesting New Tools at PHP Classes
03/21/2003 09:12 AMInteresting New Tools at PHP Classes
Hmm... Here are some interesting new tools for all of us. You
should really check out PHP Classes this week. There are even
new classes for Yahoo Calendar and VCard access. Recommended.
Interesting new thing from Google
Interesting new thing from Google
12/26/2004 06:49 PMlabs.google.com/suggest
labs.google.com/suggest
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Google's New Picasa Leaves an
Interesting INI Behind
Google's New Picasa Leaves an
Interesting INI Behind
08/13/2004 09:40 PMAfter uninstalling the Picsca software, it leaves behind the programs
configuration INI. Now with a Google search, you can find these files
laying around on servers all over the web.
Grok Description matches for Interesting things on the interweb this morning.
GrokA matches for Interesting things on the interweb this morning.
DIY Inwall Touchscreen
DIY Inwall Touchscreen
03/31/2005 07:08 PM
Mavromatic moves
gracefully into part two of their do-it-yourself inwall LCD
touchscreen project, discussing the decision to go with an industrial
panel over NEC's. He has plans to update it shortly, but for now,
there are some great pictures of his progress insofar. While this post
is a little bit short on content for the moment, part one makes
for a good read, too. He plans on having it function as a digital
picture frame when idle and wants to include a microphone and speakers
as well. A very cool project for anyone wanting to install a similar
solution in their humble keeps.
DIY Inwall 15"
LCD Touchscreen [Mavromatic]
Touchscreen Boombox PC
Touchscreen Boombox PC
05/24/2004 02:27 PMSo earlier I was warning about Star Trek devices always coming in
threes, but it looks like the trifecta today will come in homebrew PC
casemods, specifically this retro-chic touchscreen boombox that
integrates a Fujitsu Stylistic 1200 Tablet PC into...
Touchscreen BoomboxPC
Touchscreen BoomboxPC
05/30/2004 11:47 AMA true touchscreen
A true touchscreen
12/02/2003 11:06 AMA new tactile computer display for the blind from Japanese
manufacturer Uniplan that consists of 3000 plastic pins that are
raised or lowered in order to create different images and characters.
Read...
Has the Time Come for Touchscreen
Voting?
Has the Time Come for Touchscreen
Voting?
07/08/2004 01:49 AMNew York Times Jul 8 2004 6:17AM GMT
Fla. ban on touchscreen hand recounts
violates law
Fla. ban on touchscreen hand recounts
violates law
08/28/2004 12:32 AMUSA Today Aug 28 2004 5:11AM GMT
DIY Inwall Touchscreen, Finished Piece
DIY Inwall Touchscreen, Finished Piece
04/13/2005 08:57 AM
Mavromatic
completes their installation of a do-it-yourself in-wall touchscreen,
whose progress we first mentioned late last month. The end result is strikingly
gorgeous, in a manner that suggests a long-running love affair with
Home Depot was required to achieve such a level of quality. Read more
about his material and electronics selection, as well as arriving at
the finished product in his latest piece. (I'd still like to see a few
pictures of it operational, though.)
DIY:
In-wall touchscreen (The Finished Piece) [Mavromatic]
Interactive Touchscreen Kiosks for CeBIT
Survey
Interactive Touchscreen Kiosks for CeBIT
Survey
04/23/2004 01:32 AMScoop Apr 23 2004 5:46AM GMT
TouchStar2/20 adds touchscreen to
20-inch iMac
TouchStar2/20 adds touchscreen to
20-inch iMac
04/27/2004 04:00 PMTroll Touch announced Tuesday its TouchStar2/20 touchscreen system for
Apple's 20-inch iMac model. The TouchStar 2/20 incorporates of an
analog resistive touchscreen overlay and 12-bit USB controller. It's
aimed at companies or individuals who would like to incorporate the
20-inch iMac into keyboardless touch-sensitive kiosks, interactive
displays or point-of-sale terminals.
Fla. judge rules ban on touchscreen hand
recounts violates law
Fla. judge rules ban on touchscreen hand
recounts violates law
08/28/2004 06:11 AMUSA Today Aug 28 2004 9:21AM GMT
Nevadans to Become First to Use
Touchscreen Voting That Produces a Paper
Trail
Nevadans to Become First to Use
Touchscreen Voting That Produces a Paper
Trail
09/10/2004 02:05 AMDirect and Related Links for 'Nevadans to Become First to Use
Touchscreen Voting That Produces a Paper Trail'
“Nevada residents became the first in the nation to vote on
computers that leave a paper trail, taking part in a primary that
produced scattered reports of delays — though none of the serious
problems that have cast doubt upon electronic voting systems in other
states. A delegation of federal election officials monitored the
equipment’s debut Tuesday in the state capital as voters cast
ballots for congressional candidates, state legislators, school
officials and judges. Results…
ISS Repair Successful
ISS Repair Successful
06/30/2004 09:22 PMThe repairs to the power module on the ISS was succesfull and the
Astronauts finshed nearly 1 hour ahead of schedule. Everyone is real
happy with the repair. [NASA]
MP3 Repair Tool v1.0
MP3 Repair Tool v1.0
08/17/2004 01:15 PMMP3RepairTool enables you to quick and easy rescue most of your broken
MP3 files. Deletes broken ID3v2 header and makes lot of files
playable again. [Freeware 522 KB]
Registry Repair v1.41
Registry Repair v1.41
04/06/2005 09:34 AMRegistry Repair is an advanced registry cleaner for Windows that
allows you to safely scan, clean, and repair registry
problems.Problems with the Windows registry are a common cause of
Windows crashes and error messages.Registry Repair allows you to fix
your registry and optimize your PCs performance with a few simple
mouse clicks. [Shareware $14.95 30 Days 1.01 MB]
New: DVD/CD Disc Repair Plus
New: DVD/CD Disc Repair Plus
05/26/2004 09:10 AMAlera's DVD/CD Disc Repair Plus is a DVD/CD disc repair kit that
includes a motorized system with buffing, cleaning, and repair wheels,
plus liquid solutions for disc restoration.
"credit repair"
"credit repair"
09/19/2004 09:35 AMTooth Repair
Tooth Repair
12/02/2002 01:17 PMUh oh. I seem to have damaged one of my teeth. My dentist planned on
replacing the ancient filling in it soon anyway, but a piece of the
tooth has vanished. Chipped or cracked, I'm not sure. But I do...
Repair a broken iSync
Repair a broken iSync
08/27/2004 01:38 PMFor some unknown reason, my iSync stopped exporting my contacts to my
Bluetooth phone. After a bit of searching, I found a fix from W. S.
Wellington on the Apple discussion site. I thought I would post it
here because this si...
phpcrs (car repair shop)
phpcrs (car repair shop)
11/03/2003 05:30 AMSearching for phpcrs news?
UPS - Your Computer Repair Depot?
UPS - Your Computer Repair Depot?
06/30/2004 05:56 PMDetect and Repair mode
Detect and Repair mode
04/09/2004 03:54 PMAbout once a month, Outlook becomes a pain in the ass for me to use
for about 2 hours.
Inevitably, it'll hang on me while I'm doing something else, or
some other process will hang while I'm using Outlook, and Outlook will
refuse the shut down properly.
(I'm normally in the middle of about 15 things when this
happens).
I'll shut down the XP box that I use, and
let it sit for 20 minutes or so (I guess I'm hoping it'll get over
whatever I did that made it mad at me).
After leaving it alone, I'll start it back up, and then I'll try to
launch Outlook. It'll tell me that it wants to start in "Safe Mode"
(and I'm like ... hmmm, does it normally run in 'un-safe' mode?).
I'll let it try, and every-time, it'll faily to start up properly.
I'll again, leave the machine alone for 20-30 minutes... hoping
Outlook will figure out what's giving it problems, fix it, and then
start up... about 90% of the time (or so it seems) it'll fail to start
properly, and will just sit there telling me that it's "Not
responding" (and I'm like "No Shit!")
So, I'll shut it down using the "End Process" command on the
Windows Task Manager.
And then, I'll start up Outlook, and it'll tell me that something
is horribly wrong, and that it needs to go into "Detect and Repair
Mode". I'll click "ok" and then go away for another 20 minutes or so,
while Outlook's installer tries to do it's thing.
About half of the time it works and Outlook continues to work
(although it forgets some of my preferences).
The other half the time, I "rinse and repeat" this whole
process.
This whole process happens about once a month, and it costs me
around 2-3 hours each time it happens...
What a pain in the ass... total loss of productivity.
I don't think Apple Mail has ever 'ceased to function' on me, and I
know that Mailsmith hasn't ever broken. Come to think of it, OS X has
never crashed on me either...
Had to get that off my chest... Thanks for listening
Autoplay Repair Wizard
Autoplay Repair Wizard
12/05/2003 07:52 AMSteps to Repair MS Office XP
Steps to Repair MS Office XP
01/23/2004 04:12 PMLaptop Replacement Vs. Repair
Laptop Replacement Vs. Repair
02/05/2005 09:39 PMI'd gladly pay more for a machine with fewer bells and whistles but
engineered to be less likely to fail when I need it the most. By Arik
Hesseldahl, Forbes
Windows XP Repair Install
Windows XP Repair Install
05/23/2004 06:16 AMPrinter Setup Repair 4.1.1
Printer Setup Repair 4.1.1
07/13/2004 10:19 PMRepair multiple Printer Setup Utility and CUPS errors.
NASA Says Robots May Repair Telescope
(AP)
NASA Says Robots May Repair Telescope
(AP)
06/01/2004 05:28 PMAP - NASA's chief told the nation's astronomers Tuesday that he is
optimistic robots could repair the Hubble Space Telescope and said the
space agency is seeking proposals to do just that.
"NASA is going to repair the Hubble
instead of letting it die"
"NASA is going to repair the Hubble
instead of letting it die"
08/10/2004 02:30 PMRepair broken .Mac webmail access
Repair broken .Mac webmail access
08/19/2004 11:36 AMFor about the past two months, I have been unable to access .Mac's
webmail page. Whenever I would try to login, I'd get a message saying
"Sorry, the service is not available, please try again later." It
didn't matter if I was...
Automakers Try To Keep Repair Codes
Secret
Automakers Try To Keep Repair Codes
Secret
06/01/2004 04:58 PM Interesting things on the interweb this morning.
