I’ve been agonizing over a new monitor to buy for my home setup. I couldn’t decide between a 24 inch “non-S-IPS but large and bright” versus a 20 inch “smaller, but S-IPS” model. Then I saw an auction on eBay for a new NEC 2070NX (which falls into the latter category). I managed to manually […]
Apple TV: meh. It’s still too locked into iTunes. I’ve already got a PC hooked up to my TV, which works fine, and I’m looking at a SqueezeBox to hook up to the Rhapsody catalog. Yea yea yea, the iPhone is cool. It’ll be great if all you did was browse the occasional webpage, send […]
I went into the Apple store for the first time in months today–a day before Macworld–and came away disenchanted and disappointed. Even as Macworld is about to begin, I can’t imagine anything that his Steve-ness bring into this world that would rekindle my enthusiasm about the whole Apple platform. It’s a rather depressing feeling for […]
I’m debating whether I should create yet another blog that’s more like a journal. At least that would let me concentrate on tech-related things here. Anyways, since I haven’t really gotten around to that yet, this space will have to do. I need to write down my new year’s resolutions. Waste Less Time: Try to […]
I’ve known about Sysinternals (now owned by MS) for a long time, but I didn’t, and still don’t have a full appreciation for the extreme value of their utilities. For a long while now, I’ve been trying to revive Qian’s computer. It’s an old IBM thinkpad R series, with a 1.13Ghz P3, and 384 megs […]
I’ve restarted my Japanese blog. I used to have a good number of visitors when I was involved in all that Momonga and Gentoo JP stuff. Ah, good old college days. I’ve never seen blog software that handles multilingual blogging perfectly. I’ve seen hacks for various existing solutions, but they all don’t really get at […]
It seems they haven’t quite worked out all the kinks out of Flash Player 9. My work machine started having an issue where sites couldn’t detect that the player was installed. Instead they would offer a link to Adobe to install the player. Clicking on the link would show a page that indicated that the […]
I can never find the exact answer I’m looking for, so I try to write it down when I finally figure it out. This episode? How to get a fast VNC server on Ubuntu 6.10. First, get the right packages % sudo apt-get install vnc4server This gets you a ‘vnc’ module for your xorg X […]
I’ve written about how you can use Consolas (A new font in office 2007 / Windows Vista) on Windows XP, and how to set it up as the font for powershell. I even set it as my fixed width font in Internet Explorer 7. All seemed well, until I RDP’ed in. It turns out these […]
They announced “Dragon Quest IX for the DS”:http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3155838. Whatever is left of my gamer pride depends heavily on my claim that I’ve played every installment of the Dragon Quest series, and one little new console here or there isn’t going to stop me now.