Archive for the ‘GeekStuff’ Category
Amazon MP3 ID3 tag mystery solved — bad file permissions and misinformed rep, not proprietary tags - Boing Boing
Friday, January 25th, 2008So it wasn’t Amazons fault after all. Glad to hear it!
Humorix | Bill Gates is NOT Satan, Says Satan
Thursday, January 24th, 2008HTML Accent Entity Codes
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Because I keep forgetting what and where they are when I look for them. 
Challenge: figure out Amazon’s crazy-ass “proprietary” MP3 tagging system - Boing Boing
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Challenge: figure out Amazon’s crazy-ass “proprietary” MP3 tagging system - Boing Boing
Instead of trying to figure it out, we need to not buy their product until they change their ways. Money talks, both in sales due to a smart merchant and in lost sales due to merchant stupidity. Sounds like Amazon is in the latter category yet once again. 
FreeNAS: The Free NAS Server - Home
Sunday, January 20th, 2008FreeNAS: The Free NAS Server - Home
And from the comments from the previous post we have another server that may be more what I am looking for.
Building a Home File Server | Linux Journal
Sunday, January 20th, 2008Building a Home File Server | Linux Journal
Good article on setting up a basic file sharing server for home or small business use. Been meaning to do something along these lines for years. Guess it’s that time… 
Andy Ihnatko » New YouTube video is up: “In The Soup”
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA) » New YouTube video is up: “In The Soup”
Andy is just SOOOO laid back (in the tub actually but also quite safe for work 
) after his hard drive craps out with all his backups 3000 miles away. Funny stuff (as long as it’s happening to someone else that is)…
Giz Banned For Life and Loving It: On Pranks and Civil Disobedience at CES
Monday, January 14th, 2008Giz Banned For Life and Loving It: On Pranks and Civil Disobedience at CES
Well said and said well. I thought it (the prank) was funny when I first read about it and all the bs that has been coming down since has made me wonder which orifice the writers heads were inserted in. Give em hell Giz!
Stainless Steel Mouse | thecontaminated.com
Monday, January 14th, 2008Stainless Steel Mouse | thecontaminated.com
Talk about too much time on their hands. Beautiful job and all that but 8 months to make a mouse, right down to the bejeweled usb connector… 
PlexNex: Today’s Lesson: Do Not F**k with the Negroponte Brothers
Sunday, January 13th, 2008PlexNex: Today’s Lesson: Do Not F**k with the Negroponte Brothers
Interesting slant on OLPC and the Intel mess. It’ll be a hoot if they do manage to drag Gates and micro$loth into it. 
The debate about the worth of podcasting (Scripting News)
Friday, January 11th, 2008The debate about the worth of podcasting (Scripting News)
There’s a mini-debate going on about whether podcasting is a success or worth it, or whatever, I’m not sure exactly what the issue is, but it’s framed this way –> if you can’t get advertisers to hitch a ride on your podcast then podcasting is not worth much if anything.
I’m having a slow Friday so far, it’s cloudy and chilly here in the Bay Area, we’re in the January doldrums, so I thought maybe I could liven things up a bit by saying both sides of this argument are full of shit wrong.
Let me explain.
My phone doesn’t have a business model. Neither does my porch. I still like having a phone and a porch because they help me meet new people and communicate with people I know. Same with my blog and podcast.
As usual Dave W brings up some good points and makes me think about things in ways I haven’t before. I really like the phone and porch comparison. I too would like to make a few bucks off my blog, just to pay the overhead of the website and maybe pay for a bit of my internet access but this blog and The Nero Wolfe site are just hobby sites for me unlike Too Many Books which is gonna (some day, maybe) be a business blog (???) or e-commerce site or something somewhere between the two.
Gonna have to cognate on this a while. Time to get back on my head, coffee breaks over. 
Slashdot | Material Turns All Surfaces into Stereo
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Slashdot | Material Turns All Surfaces into Stereo
When all the worlds a speaker…
DBP - David’s Batch Processor
Monday, October 1st, 2007Though named David’s Batch Processor it has nothing to do with me but that I use it. Tis a super handy batch processor plug-in for gimp. If you use gimp and need to modify large groups of pix check it out. Fantastic program. Has saved me many hours of tedious hand adjusting in just the few short weeks since I found it.
dreamstate - Currently ranting about PC World
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007dreamstate - Currently ranting about PC World
Refund for me! PC World buckle to the pressure.
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Looks like PC World backed off and gave him a full refund! Great to hear that public/internet opinion made a difference in this case. What’s so bad is that it took this long and this much bad publicity to get anything done. Maybe the next time someone comes in with a similar problem they’ll just fix it and shit can the “Linux is installed so you got no hardware warranty” attitude…
Spider Robinson: Melancholy Elephants
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007Spider Robinson: Melancholy Elephants
One of his better short stories by one of my favorite authors. Good stuff!
Video for Frontalot’s nerdcore song about Zork - Boing Boing
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007Video for Frontalot’s nerdcore song about Zork - Boing Boing
Download the video and listen to it many times. On the big stereo. Loud. Good stuff! Weird techie humor! Expect younger viewers to question your sanity…
Cory Doctorow speaking at the Beijing Bookworm
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007Cory Doctorow speaking at the Beijing Bookworm
Good way to spend an hour.
Glitch Renders ‘Virtual Fence’ Unusable
Friday, September 21st, 2007Glitch Renders ‘Virtual Fence’ Unusable
Sounds like it’s being developed by Micro$oft and running on Vista…
And yes, I take every cheap shot at them I can. Been years since I have run it and I still get pissed off every time I have to sit down at a windblows machine.
IT Crowd Season 2, Episode 3: Great anti-piracy PSA sendup - Boing Boing
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007IT Crowd Season 2, Episode 3: Great anti-piracy PSA sendup - Boing Boing
Just a link to help get the word out. Another great show!
