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| tv | 2010-09-06 19:34 UTC |
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We just bought a new TV - this is a first. Some family members had given us CRT TVs over the last 20 years, and we did buy our daughter a 13" Hello Kitty CRT TV, but never one for the family.
This one is a Samsung 55 inch, with many bells and whistles. I've always planned to have one of these flat screens hanging up on the wall with no wires showing, and that's what I've done - behind it are a power outlet and a jack for cable and one for gigabit ethernet. So far, things are good, but I'm starting to run up against the limitations of my insistence on not connecting any boxes. I'll post details in the coming weeks. |
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| eximstillrocks | 2010-06-22 21:19 UTC |
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Spamgourmet has been running with exim for about a year now, and it has been one of the smoothest years so far (who would think that the tenth year, with the most users and over 5 million email addresses would be the smoothest?).
I am prefer exim now. Oh, and by the way, I deleted the spamgourmet facebook page. It sucks that facebook blocks spamgourmet links and forbids the use of spamgourmet emails (at least on the more prominent domains). Also, it looked like the "fan base" of facebook users was shrinking due to them deleting their own facebook pages, so what was the point? I'm keeping my own personal facebook page, at least for now, because it's cool to connect up with so many old friends, but I'll continue my practice of actually doing stuff here and other non-facebook places. |
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| nexus one no keyboard | 2010-04-05 18:52 UTC |
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I've been using the G1 phone for maybe a year now - my wife moved back to a standard motorola phone with much longer battery life, and so I got hers. It's pretty good, but the processor is too slow to really handle the work it has to do. For instance, in an impromptu race to find someone's cell phone number with someone who has an iPhone, my opponent had the number before I even had the address book open :(
I had been subliminally preparing myself to get the Google Nexus One phone - why not? But I just found out it has no keyboard. No keyboard => no angband for android => no deal... |
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| the cloud | 2010-02-02 21:32 UTC |
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wow - I haven't done a tech post in months...
I started this blog almost 6 years ago, and I was definitely late to the party with regard to blogging. I'm still doing it "old school" - using a largely obsolete perl program (blosxom) and hosting on my own (leased) server, where I have root access and directly control everything. I can back up (or not) as I please, and, without a court order (or breach of contract), no one can really shut down my stuff except me - not that they'd want to (or care enough to think about whether they'd want to). I've participated in more mainstream social networking sites/services, and they've been great - I've reconnected with people I thought I'd never touch base with again. A friend of mine from Omaha with a lot of energy cajoled everyone into signing up on friendster, and many old friends have had myspace pages for a while. I resisted facebook until another Houston friend talked me into it maybe a year and a half ago. Then I got my wife to sign up - more goodness all around. I've been reluctant to *do* much with the accounts on these services, though. It occurs to me that I don't have nearly as much control over the content that I create there as a practical matter, irrespective of what the applicable terms of service are (and they may or may not be all that friendly themselves). If this box blows up I can either a) restore somewhere else from backup or b) kick myself for not backing up regularly enough, but not so on these services, and of course, not so with any sort of "cloud computing" resource. I even resisted webmail for years, but finally caved and started using gmail (it's been a while now) - have you ever been locked out of gmail? I have - just for a few hours here and there - never sure why, and google won't tell you - they just quietly re-enable after some time. My guess is that there's an automated shoot-first-ask-questions-later sort of bot, followed on by a human review, which corrects its mistakes. When you're locked out, your stuff is gone... Google has an initiative to make it easy to back up information from their cloud - the Data Liberation Front - kind of old news - caught my eye immediately, but did I follow up? nope.. I will now, though. |
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