This post on the Ramblewords blog has some great suggestions for Google Reader. The ones that I like a lot describes ways to group posts by linked article or topic.
This would allow me to go through my feed list faster. (I hope I wouldn't add additional feeds.)
I had been using Little Snitch to prevent and notify me of outgoing network connections. Ever since, I have upgraded to my Mac Book Pro, I have not be successful in running Little Snitch.
I just tried GlowWorm FW Lite. This is an application that has the sam functionality. When installed, you are notified of any outgoing network connections. You then can accept or deny the connection, and then same this setting.
I recieved the an email yesterday (included below) stating the Fedora Legacy is in the process of shutting down. As of now, they are not maintaining distributions for Fedora Core 4 and earlier.
Fedora Legacy provided a centralized place where updates were distributed, even after the OS wasn't officially supported through Red Hat.
Now that this Fedora Legacy is going away, hopefully some other project will fill the space, or maybe I will switch to an OS with support. I really don't want to managed all patches and upgrades manually.
This is great. Someone took the motor from a microwave oven and is using it to rock a baby chair. It would be fun to make something like this before the baby comes.
http://www.youtube.com/v/mWj3YUQ9UiQ
[via MAKE: Blog]
I have been using the Motorola E815 for a little over a year, and I have been pretty happy with it. Recently there have been some annoyances, and some things that I haven't be able to do with it. For example,
So now when I am ready for a new cell phone, these are the features that I want:
I have been playing with Comcast's "On Demand" feature on the Motorola DVR cable box in our bedroom a little bit, and have realized that this will change my behavior. We used to have some series recordings of kids programs.
Now, I can cancel these recordings, since most of these shows are available on "On Demand". With this change, the DVR's disk space will not be "wasted" with programs that I don't watch.
I needed to setup my Harmony remote to be able to control both the TiVo Series3 and the DIRECTV HD DVR. I thought that there was a setting in in the Harmony interface, but I couldn't find it. Here is the way that I was able to get this to work:
In early 2004, I was looking for a solution of reducing spam email or our domain. We had been using SpamAsassin, but we didn't have a food soluton for training the bayesian database.
Then I found Maia Mailguard. This is a extension of amavisd-new. When mail is received it is run though spam an virus filters. The mail is quarantined or released based on each users settings. There is a nice web interface for users to mark items as spam, that were missed, or release items that were incorrectly marked as spam.
I installed this on my server, and it really worked for our mail. It worked so well, that I decided to make this available to other people. That is when I started MailBarricade. I mentioned this to my friends, and posted some ads with AdWords. Some friends and some small companies signed up.
Today, I noticed another problem with the Series3. About half of the recordings were "partial" with duration of 0:00. It turns out that only one of the two CableCards were activated. So all of the recordings from digital cable channels, on that tuner, were failing.
The TiVo should have been able to identify this problem after setup. The TiVo could have process where it tunes to every channel on both tuners. Then it could verify that the content on both tuners is the same.
With the Series3 installed, we now have two ways to easily listen to podcasts on our main system. We can either use FrontRow on the Mac mini, or use the podcasting application on the TiVo Series3. There are good and bad things with both of these solutions.
TiVo:
The podcasting application has a small directory of audio podcasts. The ones you want to have easy access to, you can mark them as favorites. For the podcasts that aren't listed, you can, tediously, enter the urls of the rss feed with the remote. Playing back works by essentially streaming the audio file.
It appears that OpenID is gaining prominence. OpenID is a decentralized identity system that can be used for authentication for various sites. When you want to authenticate your identity, you enter a url for a page that you control. This page contains will contain link tags with the location of the OpenID server where authentication happens.
This solution seems to work pretty well. Unfortunately, it setting up an OpenID identify is a little complicated. If you are not on system that natively supports OpenID, you will need to either configure a server your self, or use one of the OpenID identity services.
Now that the Series3 is working, I wanted to configure my Harmony remote to control the new setup. While trying to do this, I had a couple of problems.
There is a new update to the Harmony Remote software. When the software first started up, a dialog appeared with options to install the update or quit. Every time that I installed the update, the software would crash. I eventually found out that the problem was that the Harmony Remote software was not unpacking the update itself, but using the configured helper application. (The Unarchiver). Once I deleted this app, the update worked correctly.
This morning two Comcast technicians came over to look at the problem that we were having with the new cable video install. It turns out the problem was that when we had our cable modem installed, the installer put a filter on our line. This was causing the CableCards and the Motorola DVR to not be able to get the channel list.
Once the filter was removed, everything worked.
This page has some simple instructions for setting up a ssh public/private key pair.
When season 10 of South Park started, I purchased the Season Pass from the iTunes Store. Then when Comedy Central resumed South Park from its mid season break, the Season Pass didn't resume. Then when I looked at the entry in the iTunes Music Store, it listed a new 10B season South Park. I didn't feel like paying for this new season, especially since I thought I originally payed for the whole season.
Last week, I got this email from Apple. It seems that a lot of people were upset, so they gave the 10B season to anyone who purchased 10A. I think that this is a great for public relations.
Now that we are using Google Apps for Your Domain for our email, I have been looking at all of the little tools that are available for the various Google products. I tried the Gmail Dashboard Widget, but I wasn't able to get it to work with the email for our domain, even though it works with my gmail account.
g4me is a third party Dashboard widget that will display new mail for an account in your domain.
OpenDNS has an good campaign going on. The Gift of Safe is way to evangelize the benefits of OpenDNS, to your friends and family.
This can help reduce the chances of phishing and identity theft, for your friends and family.
The size of the long double data type is 16 bytes in the version of gcc in Mac OS X 10.4. Unfortunately printf in the version of libc, included in the OS, only includes support for printing 64 bit long doubles. So if you want to print the value of a 128 bit long double, the output will not be as precise as the data itself.
I am trying to figure out a different way to print this data.
About a week ago, our TiVo Series3 was delivered, and yesterday the Comcast installer came to install the two CableCards, and a DVR. The installation time was supposed to be between 12 and 4. At 3, the installed called and wanted directions. I asked him if he had the CableCards, and he said that he didn't have any in the truck. He said that he could install the DVR and schedule another appointment for the CableCards, or he could come back after 5. I said that he should come after 5.
When he eventually came, he did bring both CableCards and the DVR. The installation was pretty quick. When he left, the DVR had video, but had no program guide. He said that it would begin to appear in 30 - 45 minutes. The Series3 was left "Acquiring Channel Information". The Series3 was supposed to acquire this info in 30 minutes as well.
This is a pretty funny performance of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special performed by the cast of Scrubs.
[via TV Squad]
This is a pretty funny video of some people at Automobile Magazine trying to use the new Lexus self parking feature
[via Autoblog]
If this head unit has video and audio out, I would want to get one of them for our van. This would allow the head unit to control the iPod to select a video, and have the video and audio routed to an external monitor in the back.
[via Engadget]
I've been pleased with my Home Assistant setup for some time now. One of my main focuses has been achieving local control. This ensures...
