Wow. While doing my early morning browsing I came across retroCrush. I think me and my brothers took that catalog to the electronics store in the RKO Keith’s theater in Flushing. The store was part of the building and next to the ticket booth up front. I remember because the Atari games were very cool [...]
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What you get with FIOS
My Internet and TV viewing works well but for some reason the guide data is not being loaded onto the set top boxes. While I am waiting for the (hopefully) Monday morning fix to my TV guide data, here is what you get with FIOS. 1. A weather sealed FIOS box that performs the hand [...]
FIOS is a work in progress
The phone is flawless and the Internet connection is amazing. See the SPEEDTEST.NET results to the right. I just have a small problem with my digital TV service. At the moment I have no picture at all. Earlier I had picture and all my channels but I did not have the channel guide. An hour [...]
I want to believe (in FIOS that is)
Since Verizon messed up my order yesterday, they informed me that my order was set for 8 AM – 12 noon today. That sucked but it was better than waiting till next week. And I have to dial into work around 10 AM today so what the heck, I’ll just go with it. Before 8 [...]
Getting FIOS installed today
Update: FIOS install delayed. Tomorrow is the new confirmed install date. Just like today was confirmed. Not a good way to start. I’m currently on Optimum Online and I’m having FIOS installed in my house today. It’s not that I have any real problem with Cablevision (I don’t) or have had support problems (Cablevision has [...]
Rebuilt the Acer Aspire 1
I rebuilt my Acer Aspire 1 with the factory provided DVDs. Mainly, I did this because I want to use the soon to be released Ubuntu 9.10 UNR. By installing and using the netbook’s version of XP I can get a good idea of a best case scenario as my baseline. With my newly purchased [...]
Picasa software to Flickr
If you use Picasa software and Flickr, use this script to add a button. It will automate sending your photos to Flickr Uploadr.
Photoshop Elements 8 Upgrade
Note to self: next time you install PSE 8 make sure you turn off the Auto-Analyzer. The PSE 8 Organizer tried to analyze 23,000 old photos. That did really bad things to my CPU usage.
SSL certs for free and not self signed?
I may have been under a rock lately. I saw on Reddit that Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 supported StartSSL certificates. So as a goof I signed up at https://www.startssl.com/ and applied for a free server certificate. I generated via their web page a certificate for blog.dembowski.net, installed it on my apache server and started using [...]
PC really does need replacing
I was playing the new F.E.A.R.2 add on when my PC froze up hard again. Looks like I’ll be getting a new one in October.
