eBay has gotten rid of the ability to give buyer’s negative feedback at the end of an auction. I held back my dismay from public view… until now. For the third time, in a single week, I’ve had an international buyer back out due to shipping. They didn’t run the shipping calculator until after purchase. […]
Microsoft just sent a note to MSN Direct Smart Watch owners. If you update to Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (just hitting beta, but won’t go final until February), you will lose the ability to send messages to your Smart Watch. In case you didn’t know, Microsoft’s abandoned-but-still-supported Smart Watch platform had has a feature, which, […]
Effective, well, right now, Comcast has imposed a 250 GB bandwidth cap on your traffic. You no longer can use more than 250 GB per account. That is, unless you haven’t already fired Comcast. I did that a few months back (first taking a speed hit with AT&T DSL, and then a massive speed boost […]
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 […]