a little ludwig goes a long way: I need a meta-guide for TV. A great tutorial on how to stick bittorrent and RSS together to find things. Its much better than using a search engine like “isohunt.com”:http://isohunt.com. “Pealco.net”:http://pealco.net/archives/2004/11/08/how_to_never_miss_an_episode_with_bittorrent_and_rss explains how you never have to miss another show with RSS feeds. Basically, you use Azureus and […]
Day: November 24, 2004
Ignition Blog Roundup
a little ludwig goes a long way: Ignition blog round up 11/23. Great idea by John to just round up our dozen or so blogs. I particularly like the comment about the marketing playbook. It really isn’t marketing, don’t tell anyone that. Its really about strategy but those books don’t have a category on Amazon, […]
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Podcasting
Podcasting – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. One of the most amazing trends that literally has taken off in six months is this podcasting idea. That is, there is audio on the web and it automagically downloads to an iPod. I’m stunned by how fast these platform shifts happen now. Literally overnight, judging by wikipedia. Boy […]
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Sony Vaio T140P/L
Sony Unveils 3-Pound T-Series Ultra-Portable Notebook @ CHAITGEAR. This is pretty close to the perfect travel notebook. Its not the machine for everything. In fact, right now I think the dream combination is a fast and cheap desktop for office work that you can get for $1,000 or so now plus a light notebook that […]
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Turkey
!{float: right; margin-left: 10px;}http://www.wholefoods.com/recipes/images/turkey_2004.jpg!:http://www.wholefoods.com/recipes/turkeyprimer.html Time once again for Rich to take charge and roast the turkey. As usual, here’s a list of recipes that work: “Whole Foods”:http://www.wholefoods.com/recipes/turkeyprimer.html. The local high end but fresh grocer around here. They have a basic recipe that includes brining the turkey. The brine ratio: 2 gallons water 2 cups kosher […]
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Get Yahoo Toolbar
Yahoo! Toolbar. YOu have to get this tool for the antispyware. Been working through what’s wrong with Connie’s computer and despite the fact we run IE 6.0, Google Popup Blocker, Zonealarm, Norton Antivirus and Spybot Search and Destroy. On running Lavasoft Ad-aware that I found zillions of spyware programs that weren’t blocked. However, it was […]
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XP Hangs and Reboots
Troubleshoot Windows XP Professional. Been getting an amazing number of hangs (e.g., mouse freezes) and random reboots (no blue screen, just blown to the restart). Feels like there is instability in at least two machines at the driver level. As an old NT guy, I know that the only way this happens is if something […]
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Reinstalling XP
Sniptools ?| Tips/Tricks | Reinstall Windows XP without product activation. A bunch of my XP machines are getting random crashes. With the NTFS file system, it is easy to corrupt things and one machine is now dead. Things chkdsk fine, but that doesn’t mean the operating system files themselves aren’t corrupt. So what to do. […]
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SP2 Required
Symantec Support. Now that Microsoft is going to discontinue support for the “gold” XP, they are forcing everyone to upgrade to SP2. Interesting, this is the hardest core shift I’ve seen lately, but it makes me worried about the machines I have that aren’t SP2 yet. Here’s a note on how Norton works with SP2. […]
