I’m home sick today so I have time to goof off. I got Joost 1.0.2 working on Vista 64, it was the simplest thing of all. In the shortcut properties disable Windows XP SP2 compatibility. That’s it. I’m watching Numbers right now.
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Amateur balloon hits 30km with pics
Reddit’s web site is a pure time waster by design. This morning I saw this link. It leads to a web site that shows how a hobbyist built a kit and put it on a high altitude balloon. According to his sensors he hit about 30km and has pictures to back that up. Amazing! This [...]
A brown out or "why DR planning is your friend"
My server is in the basement of my home. In Long Island. Where we have brown outs like the one we had today. The clocks came back and had to be reset but my Linux server apparently did not, or maybe it’s the cable modem. Hard to tell exactly as I am not at home. [...]
Fun with WordPress tags
Going from UTW to WordPress 2.3′s built in tag system was mostly painless. But there are somethings I miss about UTW. Two of those things are being able to display “Tags: None” and having my tags show up in my RSS feeds. Here is how I was able to put both back into my blog. [...]
Ubuntu on a USB stick with XPS 720
Fixing the MBR on Vista 64 bit or how to remove GRUB from Vista. Keep this link handy, it saved me a lot of time. Well running Ubuntu 7.10 beta did not work as well as I planned. The 2 GB USB memory stick I had laying around was too small. This caused the installer [...]
Installing Ubuntu on a Dell XPS 720
Update 6/3/2009: Follow the instructions here at PenDriveLinux.com for Ubuntu 9.04, it works with the Dell XPS 720 very well. The only odd thing is that I have to re-enable the NVidia drivers between reboots. When you do enable it, don’t reboot. Just log out and let the auto login go and you can use [...]
Well, no iPhone for me in the future
I had considered getting an iPhone in the past but the EDGE only cell network irked me so I figured I’d get one when a) they support 3G cell phone networks, and b) when the iPhone becomes 16 GB. Now even if that happens, unless Apple shows they are changing, I won’t buy one. The [...]
Java on Vista 64 bit does not work
Another update: While Java is still working for me, other people have resolved their problem below. Read the comments for a solution. Update: I still get hits to this post. Java works on my Vista 64 installation for both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 3. – – – – – – – I can’t get [...]
Problems with machine translation
The machine translation I am using is giving me problems. More accurately Google thinks my server is a compromised machine with spyware and BabelFish changed something so my pages are not being translated. I’m not complaining because both service are free and reminds me of why some people really dislike machine translation. For now I’ll [...]
XPS 700 to XPS 720 upgrade
Today the service technician arrived to do the scheduled upgrade of my XPS 700 to XPS 720 mother board. It was all professional and mostly well done with four not so big problems I noticed after he left. The color LED’s on the top half of the front panel are setup wrong. When I select [...]
