It seems that at least one of the hard drives in our TiVo is slowly dying. Fortunately, we still have our old DirecTV receiver laying around, so we can still watch Tour de France coverage on OLN. But, being temporarily without TiVo makes me now realize how much I loved it. The pause button is… Read More »
Howard Rheingold wrote recently about his troubles with his Treo 600, and his even greater troubles in trying to extract reasonable customer service out of Sprint. Fortunately, I’ve run into few problems with my Treo, with none of them serious enough to require me to run the Sprint PCS customer service gauntlet. My only recent… Read More »
During the Euro 2004 tournament, our DirecTiVo started having a lot of video and audio stutter problems. By last week, the shows we were recording had become almost impossible to watch. Sometimes the video would freeze for minutes at a time. The on-screen guide was also slowing to a crawl. Bringing up the screen to… Read More »
Although I did make it to the Fire Arts Festival Friday night, I ended up being at work so late that I didn’t have time to go home and get my camera. I didn’t even have time to eat dinner. So, unfortunately, all I can show off are some poor quality photos taken with the… Read More »
There are still two nights left for you to attend the Fire Arts Festival at the Crucible on 7th Street in Oakland. DESCRIPTION: An incendiary and landmark exhibition of fire and light artistry at The Crucible’s industrial arts facility and a 100,000 sq ft outdoor Fire Arts Arena in West Oakland! A wealth of workshops,… Read More »
Congratulations to all the people who have contributed articles to Wikipedia. The site just passed 300,000 on the article-o-meter. If you haven’t checked out Wikipedia, yet, you definitely should. The community system for writing encyclopedia-style articles has worked out amazingly well. Hmmm, I just noticed that there are no articles on “incinerating toilet” or “incinerator… Read More »
I downloaded the amusing video short Office Space Wars (found via Boing Boing) recently and I wanted to show it to my wife on her PowerBook. The video played fine under Fedora Core 1 with Xine, but the playback had lots of stutters and glitches under Windows Media Player on Mac OS X. The movie… Read More »
I ended up enjoying the UT2004 demo so much, I bought the full version. Having now installed it and played through a couple of the new maps, I can confirm that UT2004 is totally worth it. Install Tips for Linux Video Driver – Make sure you have a fairly new, if not the newest, version… Read More »