Thursday, September 28. 2006
Good Packet Sniffing Tuturials
| For the TCP packet-sniffing enthusiast, there is a fairly nice series of packet-sniffing tutorials, put together by Chris Sanders: There is also a Podcast available. |  |
Wednesday, September 27. 2006
iTunes 7.0.1 Released
| Not too surprisingly, Apple has released iTunes 7.0.1, which is supposed to fix some of the stability issues introduced in the original iTunes 7 release. (Let's hope so!)  |  |
Boondocks Comics Strip: Sabbatical -> Permanent Retirement :-(
| Just heard the news that the Boondocks comic strip will be retired permanently (instead of the previous 6 month sabbatical that was announced in February of this year). (sniff!!) On the plus side, the Boondocks TV show was renewed for another season. |  |
Saturday, September 23. 2006
(Yet Another) Promising New TV Show?
| Yet another new promising TV series?? (that would make two within the same calendar year {Eureka and Jericho}; surely a record...) Jericho might actually get me watching TV on a weekly basis. The premise of the series is what happens to a small town (Jericho, Kansas) in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion, which ends up cutting off the town from the outside world. I already have my DVR set up to record the episodes for the next two weeks..... (And, of course, there is already a Wiki page available as well as the official web site). |  |
Thursday, September 21. 2006
iTunes 7 issues
| It seems that there are some bugs in the latest iTunes 7 release according to the iPod Observer website. An article at MacWorld.UK does a good job of detailing the various issues. | |
Wednesday, September 20. 2006
Work Golf Scramble - Year 3
| Once again it was time for the annual work golf scramble. Weather-wise, we lucked out and had beautiful day for it (prior to today, the weather had been pretty drizzly and cold). I was on the same team as last year, but, even with a couple of drinks, we couldn't seem to get the flow going and ended up at +2 over par (still a good score for me). One of my team-mates (one of the "good" golfers) was mortally depressed and said that he would have to hang his head in shame for awhile. Which points out one of the few advantages to being a poor golfer - you are usually beside yourself with happiness to get a bogey (i.e. you are not over par by double-digits). There were awesome prizes again this year (including three iPods), but due to my non-existent golf skills, I didn't claim any of them. Of course, there is always next year and miracles still do happen. |  |
Tuesday, September 19. 2006
Apple iTV to have a hard drive?
Sunday, September 17. 2006
Wireshark 0.99.3 released
| Wireshark 0.99.3 has been released which fixes multiple vulnerabilities which have been reported with the Wireshark dissectors. (Note: this is the re-named network analyzer which used to be called Ethereal). | |
Saturday, September 16. 2006
Portable Firefox
| A nice article on how to install (Portable) Firefox on a USB drive. Also, here are some handy keyboard shortcuts for some common browsers (Firefox, IE and Opera) as well as an article on extending the base installation of Firefox. |  |
Friday, September 15. 2006
Pentax K10D Review Online
| The long awaited Pentax K10D will be released on Sept. 14, 2006 according to press reports and DPReview has a review of it online. Note: Also, for Pentax owners of the *ist DL lines, there is a firmware update that has been issued that will allow for the use of the new high capacity SDHC cards. |  |
Banned Books Week
Firefox 1.5.0.7 Released
| Firefox 1.5.0.7 has been released. It looks like this release is mainly a stability release with a couple of security fixes thrown in. Also, Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 has been released as well. Update (9/29/06): For Fedora Core 3 users, there are some additional steps in the Firefox update process. | |
Thursday, September 14. 2006
New Logitech Mouse
| Logitech has introduced a new (laser) mouse: the Logitech® MX™ Revolution, which promises better scrolling (Hyper-fast scrolling feature) as well as better precision tracking (don't all new mice seem to promise that ?). One thing I do hope that Logitech has changed is to separate the charging station from the USB receiver (being the owner of the Logitech MX1000 Laser mouse, having to worry about the cord for the USB receiver {instead of just a USB dongle} was a constant pain, since I used my mouse with my laptop. Here are a couple of reviews of the new mouse from CNet, Techgage, and ExtremeTech. Update (9/16/06): Picked up my new mouse at CompUSA today and, Hooray!! It looks like Logitech took my advice  and separated out the charging station from the USB dongle. Still working on getting the mouse configured just the way I like it....Update (9/17/06): For the most part, I have my new MX Revolution mouse configured the way that I want (re-programming the search button, etc). The trickiest part was getting my "middle mouse button" functionality back, while keeping the free scroll function (I use the middle mouse button pretty heavily in Firefox) - fortunately, quite a few people seemed to have the same (or similar) issue(s). There was quite a bit of advice (including editing the settings.xml file), but in the end, this thread helped the most. |  |
Article: How Apple iTV Works
| Fresh on the heels of Apple's announcement of the upcoming iTV player (due 1st quarter of 2007), a Digg pointer to an article about how iTV really works. (as a side note, according to this article, it looks like Engadget was actually able to get a hands-on demo of the unit - sweet!). |  |
Wednesday, September 13. 2006
iTunes 7.0.0 Released: User Interface Enhancements
| iTunes 7 has been released which includes some new features for the user interface, including a nice graphic iPod summary page. Also, there are a couple of different views that you can have with your local music library: 1.) standard browser view 2.) Grouped by album list with album artwork 3.) cover browser. (another nice perk is that the iTunes interface doesn't seem to freeze up temporarily when I connect my 60 GB iPod to it). Quicktime 7.1.3 is included as well. Note: for QTFairUse/myFairUse users, it seems that QTFairUse 2.3 will work just fine with iTunes 7 (although the QTFairUse 2.2 version will not). Update (9/14/06): (Not surprisingly) according to this Digg article, there have been murmurings about iTunes 7 being a memory hog (it seems to occur when running in "Cover Browser" mode with large album art JPGs). | |
