HD-DVD is dead, long live Blu-ray. Engadget has some more comments.
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Ubuntu 7.10 on Virtual PC 2007
Today it’s President’s Day, it’s raining, and the kids are off this week. So naturally I am goofing around with my PC. I’ll head to the basement soon to play with the kids but first I want to setup something on my workstation. My main workstation is a Dell 700 720 with a Core 2 [...]
Et tu, Wal-mart?
From Engadget, things get worse for HD-DVD.
Bad mail queuing in Postfix
Yesterday around 12:36 AM my main server mowgli went into a temporay coma (a disk volume fell down and did not get back up) and was not receiving mail. No problem, thanks to the magic of DNS MX records, mail goes to my backup server dixie. Good thing I was clever and had dixie forward [...]
The Mythbusters should buy this car
KITT car from Knight Rider is up for sale. Someone call the Mythbusters!
Got Joost 1.0.2 to work with Vista 64
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.
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 [...]