Category: Geek

Tech­nol­o­gy, Sci­ence, etc.

Footnotes Are As Real As The Writer

I hap­pened across this short post on Dar­ing Fire­ball today and quick­ly got swept down the ‘Jon Gru­ber’s Foot­notes’ rab­bit hole. I think seman­tic web pages are a note­wor­thy goal, just as I appre­ci­ate prop­er typog­ra­phy. How­ev­er, I don’t get all hung up about it like these guys1 seem to. I use the Word­Press plu­g­in… Con­tin­ue read­ing Foot­notes Are As Real As The Writer

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Comcast Traffic Shaping

The Asso­ci­at­ed Press­es inves­tiga­tive work on Com­cast’s alleged net­work traf­fic shap­ing (or pos­si­ble out­right block­ing) has been get­ting a lot of cov­er­age today, and right­ful­ly so1. This seems to be the first major instance of a major ISP get­ting their hands caught in the cook­ie jar when it comes to aban­don­ing net­work neu­tral­i­ty, or at… Con­tin­ue read­ing Com­cast Traf­fic Shaping

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One Trillion

One tril­lion is a big num­ber. One mil­lion mil­lion. I hon­est­ly nev­er thought I’d have a tril­lion of any­thing oth­er than cells in my body1. When we got the iMac desk­top for our home last Jan­u­ary, I knew that 250GB of stor­age would not be enough. Espe­cial­ly giv­en that we use this as a media… Con­tin­ue read­ing One Tril­lion

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TiVo Is Still Ahead on IPTV

Though few seem to acknowl­edge the strides that TiVo has been mak­ing in IPTV (as opposed to Apple), Engad­get is report­ing that you can now pur­chase Ama­zon Unbox con­tent straight from your TiVo. They call it Buy on TV (direct, if not entire­ly cre­ative). I doubt that it is a ‘cable tele­vi­sion replace­ment’ just yet,… Con­tin­ue read­ing TiVo Is Still Ahead on IPTV

Re-activating Windows

After fid­dling around with run­ning Win­dows XP on Par­al­lels for sev­er­al months, I came to the con­clu­sion that the best method of instal­la­tion is to use Apple’s Boot Camp first and run Par­al­lels off of the Boot Camp par­ti­tion (which is a real­ly cool option to have, just so you know). How­ev­er, due to the nature… Con­tin­ue read­ing Re-acti­vat­ing Windows

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Parallel To All

I’ve been using Par­al­lels on my iMac ever since I got that machine back in Jan­u­ary. Like most every­one else I’ve read on the pro­gram, I’ve been very impressed with it’s abil­i­ty to run dif­fer­ent OS’s with­in the OS X envi­ron­ment. I’ve been run­ning Ubun­tu (Lin­ux) 6.06, Win­dows XP Pro SP2, and Win­dows Vista Ulti­mate… Con­tin­ue read­ing Par­al­lel To All

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Five Fun Things: Week of May 10th

Here’s a list of Five Fun Things I’ve been enjoy­ing late­ly, in no sig­nif­i­cant order (oth­er than No. 1): Feel­ing our baby girl kick for the first time last Sun­day morn­ing. That was awe­some. Super Paper Mario on the Wii – Not a very hard game, but loads of fun to play and very fun­ny, too. Lost… Con­tin­ue read­ing Five Fun Things: Week of May 10th