March 2007 Entries
Found: Vista drivers for the Toshiba M200 tablet. There has been quite a lot of discussion from M200 owners about whether or not Toshiba was going to support Vista on this model or not, including this detailed post from Scott Hanselman. When I first got the tablet, I set up a Google blog search RSS feed for "m200 vista" and it paid off exactly as I had hoped. On the forum GottaBeMobile, someone posted that the drivers were spotted on the Swiss Toshiba support site [link]. You don't have to actually read the foreign language (German?) page, the...
One of my rules for blogging is that I spend more than 15 minutes searching for something I should do a post that will help someone else in the future.
I am using a second monitor attached to my laptop when I'm at the office. I'm able to put everything (mail, IM, firefox, etc) on the second monitor and just keep Visual Studio and IE open for development on my main screen. Fantastic productivity enhancer. Except this is a laptop so when I'm connecting from somewhere else, and I'm don't carry a second monitor with me, windows will sometimes open...
YouTube - Shell & Partizan Thank you AutoBlog for posting this! We have here four or five Ferrari F1 cars ranging from the '50's up to an F2004 or so rampaging through Rome, Monaco, Rio, Sydney, New York and Hong Kong city streets. Amazing stuff and be sure to turn up the sound! [Bigger, better looking QuickTime link here] Comments, when I first saw the ad, I was sure that the Ferrari I saw back in October [flickr link] parked in the Anthorpe building [9k/month apartment listing] was used, but the ones in the ad start a little...
I installed this on my servers within about two hours of it being released to the web. I am compelled, I can't explain it. Anyway, just a tiny little note to say that when you upgrade, all NICs will have their firewall turned on automatically. As you can see in the picture we have a backend, management NIC with dedicated hardware, it doesn't really need a firewall. I caught this pretty quickly, but I'm putting this up there in the hopes that I can save someone else some degree of suffering. Don't rollback just yet anonymous Google friend! ...
This will be hard to hear above the din that is Arcade Fire indie music hype, but I have a new album to rave on. Kings of Leon's new album Because of the Times. I liked, but didn't love their first two albums, I thought they were somehow muted and timid in the production and it didn't do enough for me. But I'm completely rocking out to this new one. There's a new dynamicism on this record that I didn't hear before. It doesn't hurt that I rediscovered the volume knob and am going through a...
While I always speak of my foray into the world of being an entrepreneur in positive terms, and indeed this is shaping up to the most exciting thing I've ever done professionally, it is also quite *hard*. Of course I am well prepared to know how hard it is. My father has been an entrepreneur for nearly my whole life, my brother-in-law is an expert as well. You can guess the obvious stuff like money, stress and long hours and of course I knew those going in. Yet I have been surprised by a few things in my...
My fourth generation ipod is a bit long in the tooth at this point, but at twenty gigs, it has plenty of space for music and it doesn't play video so no biggie there. Like everyone else I've run into trouble with it from time to time. I even had to replace the headphone jack and the logic board -- through a third party, not Apple, since it was past the warrantee at that point. A couple weeks ago, I had some issues with the drive and I thought maybe it was click-of-death time. I ran a thorough...
I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I was working out of my father's office. This is working well, but I have a minor issue with music. I had tried burning DVDs with MP3s to listen to, but I got tired of them by the third day and wanted access to my entire library as well as the latest, newest stuff I was getting. I'm skipping a ton of details, but basically I needed a solution that would work over the Internet to stream my own music collection to myself. Normally I would have used iTunes streaming over Hamachi,...