2010
05.19

If you are watching Lost on Hulu.com or thru Hulu desktop.. read this from this page :

We are able to post all episodes of the current season until the finale on May 23. At that time, we will be able to post the last 5 episodes of the current season.
Seasons 1-5 will be available for streaming through December 31, 2010.

Thank goodness I got caught up a few weeks ago!
:D

2010
04.21

Figures.

2010
04.19

Someone found a phone.. in a bar.. in Redwood City. Then Gizmodo got a hold of said phone.. and it appears to be legit..

What Do you Think?

2010
04.17

I saw this about 8 years ago.. and it’s still just a little disturbing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sahvXH22e40

2010
04.09

Ooo New Firefox Beta!

And it runs silverlight and flash and quicktime videos as seperate processes.. so only those will crash and it won’t take FF with it..

Spiffy Huh? Its a beta.. but it’s available here http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/lorentz/

2010
04.09

Get em used to it early?

According to Dvice who copied it from a few other sites.. Little tykes is selling or will be selling a $2600 dollar kids PC.. running windows.. that is pretty much a little cubicle..

I think what most people don’t understand is that in the future you won’t be in a cube you will be at home.. remoted into work… but i suppose you will trade your losing individuality in an office for working alone at home..

2010
03.31

Strange Japan

It gets a little dark there towards the end.

2010
03.25

I’ve been administering and supporting Windows machines for a very very long time, and since Windows XP, it’s shipped with a Remote Client which you should all be familiar with if you are in any sort of similar position.   There is another Remote Client called “Remote Assistance.”

If you search windows help you can search for “Offer remote assistance”  and this will allow you to see a users desktop the way they see it.

On occasion you may need to restart a machine when you are remoted in. Alas when connected with Offer Remote Assistance you have no restart option.

You can open a command console (start > run > cmd)  then type

shutdown -r

and a small countdown windows will open and the machine will shutdown in 30 seconds.

Pretty Elementary.. but good to know in a pinch.

Here is a good link with some shutdown.exe switches

2010
03.25

My wife is heading out of town this morning to visit friends,  once she gets there she already knows they don’t have any kind of a wireless router or access point in their home so she took with her our handy dandy Linksys Wireless G Router that we use at home.. So.. I’m without a firewall.

So.. even tho I’m using Linux I’m no dummy..  although I’m not worried about spyway I have shares on this machine that behind the router were available to the whole network.

Guarddog is an “easy” to use front end for the firewall iptables that you can find in many distributions of Linux.  It just so happens to be installed on LinuxMint 8 which is the one I use.   I visited the website for Guarddog and used this tutorial and setup a basic configuration.

Maybe later this weekend I’ll put together a PC firewall and see how well that works out.

2010
03.23

Talk is Cheap.. SCAN ME

In 1996 Jim Carrey did this on SNL.. I’ve always loved telling people to “Ride the Snake”.. now they can see why.
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/95/95ttango.phtml