Archive for September, 2008

Yesterday, SureWest came out and deployed the fiber lines. I’m taking a personal day today to bask in its sheer light-refracting glory. Just to give you some speed rates, I am now getting sustained speeds of 48 mbps down, and 56 mbps upstream. That means that I can email an entire DVD worth of information… [...]

As I noted would happen previously, we are now moving from our temporary offices, to our new offices. This process will take the rest of the week, and probably a couple of days into next week. Unlike the last move however, I will be much more available. Things should go much less unhinged this week.

I had my concerns about the Hauppauge 1212 HD PVR. First, it lost Media Center support (thanks to Microsoft gutting H.264 from TV Pack 2008 at the last minute). Then, it got delayed… a lot. But, when it comes to capturing HD video, there aren’t a lot of choices out there. A few FireWire boxes touted component [...]

Many with Acer Aspire One nettops had noticed that the device was needing a BIOS update. Nothing really stood out as major, just minor quirks here and there that felt like they were rooted at the BIOS level. And, some of you may have seen leaked BIOS builds. Unfortunately, many of those wound up frying [...]

Long story short, I moved. Went through guided setup. Told it to go from CableCARD to OTA-only mode (I’m having the installer out later this month). Now, my TiVo is trying to record shows using the OTA map in my old area. Even when I chose the channel in my new area, and select the [...]

I went to attend a Media Center Expert Zone chat, at its regularly schedueled time (once monthly, on the third Thursday of the month)… only to find that the Expert Zone web site had removed the Media Center chats from their schedule completely. I can’t blame them, really. The chats weren’t aimed at true Media [...]

Long story short, a bug has surfaced in WordPress 2.6.2. It allows for the injection of the following code (or stuff similar to it): <p><span style=“padding: 1px 4px; position: absolute; z-index: 10000; cursor: pointer; left: 395px; top: 745px; color: #000000;”>save</span></p> The above string does not appear in HTML view. The only options I can come [...]

One of the things that I was concerned about with the Volt, was the uncertainty about being able to use Electric Vehicle Charging Stations. Thanks to mis-appropriated government spending in the state of California… we have tons of these. And, virtually all of them go unused. About the only cars that can use them are [...]

If you’ve been using Google Gears for Mac, you might have noticed sometimes that the Gears setup for a particular web site… sometimes vanishes. You have to re-enable Gears for each web site which you had approved it for. Why is this? Well, Google is deploying the Gears setup inside of /Users/yourname/Library/Cache (or, ~/Library/Cache as [...]

As you may know, over the past few years, Macworld Expo priority codes have leaked out, netting people up to a free Platinum Pass. Considering the importance of the Platinum Pass this year, I decided to post this article, which I will update whenever I see (or am told about) a new priority code. So, [...]