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I actually asked the hand full of ipad owners I know what's so awesome about ipads. What I can say from that is that to a one, they consume streaming content that's available regardless of platform but they also participate in Apple's ecosystem for music and video, which of course is something...

It was pointed out to me not long ago that the local price for a Primary rate ISDN setup was quite a bit lower than a full T1. Like 10%. There isn't much functional difference between the two things so I have no idea why there's a price difference.

Diagnosis: You need something better than crummy 3G for two way video. Solution: Pay $30 a month for DSL and get a $50 wireless router. That'll be $100.

Dreamhost works just fine as a registrar. I do most of what I want from there, and their control panel will even start the GApps migration for you. Dotster made me pay $10/year just so I could set up a TXT record.

To be honest, the first thing I thought when I heard about that was how much those guys were paid not to fall on their swords over the outages last fall, which seemed to me to be the ideal time to make a hasty and well-timed exit anyway.

This week's episode of On the Media has some fairly interesting and balanced (in the actual, non-Fox News definition of "balance") coverage of SOPA and Megaupload. It's basically the first 20 minutes of an hourlong program.

You did that on purpose, didn't you? Nonetheless, I think the Samsung devices I've tried have had the best overall experience, even in spite of their goofy launcher and UI "enhancements."

Copyright infringement has only recently become a criminal matter. Until fairly recently, it was handled only in civil court. Unfortunately, certain industries have decided that it's more important to bribe our legislature into forcing the world to conform to its business models than to try to...

Perhaps the right answer is to find some tool that will generate previews of arbitrary size and run it against your source library in a script? The difficulty I see with that is linking the smaller preview to the larger source file, but it might make for a faster, better experience anyway.

The first thing that comes to my mind is that both Picasa and ACDsee will generate thumbnails, but Picasa doesn't seem to allow me to directly change thumbnail size and the version of ACDsee I have here (and still use!) is 16 years old. That said, 256x256 is absolutely enormous for something...

Does anyone else here even have a tablet? What are you using it for?

Most places that say they don't allow custom records really mean "We don't support custom records unless you pay us." There's probably some stupid $10/year add-on you need to buy from 1&1 to allow direct editing of your DNS records.

At the end of my weekend with iOS, I don't really have anything more to add. Apple's default ebook tool did most of what I wanted and I was annoyed enough with the App store that I didn't go back looking for anything that I was missing. Reading was just OK. I might be wrong but I think reading...

I already had one Evo. Now I just have some more.

I suspect this is an epic tale with which we are all familiar and so I share it with all of you. Last time I visited my aunt and uncle, I fixed their desktop, removed spyware and reset the screen resolution on their new, widescreen laptop to something other than 800x600, secured their wireless...

An electronics recycling program started in my area last year. I've met the guy who runs it a couple times. They employ homeless guys and parolees to strip everything they're given to components and then resell anything they possibly can before disposing of what they can't. Anyway, that guy...

There's a whole lot of "You've GOT to be kidding me." as I look for the things that make the ipad what I would consider minimally functional. The app store search doesn't seem to understand anything but name searches, meaning that I have to go and google to find the tools that I want, then...

... or the guy who ran TV Shack, a British citizen, being arrested and extradited to the US for violating no laws in Great Britain?

OK. I have this ipad2. Very first thing I'm going to say about it: The weight annoyance factor isn't as bad as it is on Android tablets. The ipad2 uses a 4:3 screen and it rally does balance better than 16:9 products.

I'm now the proud owner of two spare HTC Evos. One of them is going to be permanently installed in my car to act as a full-time media player. I guess I'll play around with third party Android builds on the other.

Just roll with it, man. Santilli wants to talk about the weather where he is and it's not preventing any other discussion. Some of us have pet threads. I keep resurrecting the "Media Players" thread and for that matter every once in a while someone will post an update to a five or six year old...

The simple fact is that I don't think these attempts to censor will amount of any serious degradation of my ability to access information online. We'll find ways around everything. Yes, the whole western world has taken a step away from free and open societies, but there's a larger issue than...

Contrast that with Prometric, whose testing software, the software needed to certify candidates on Microsoft software like Exchange and SQL Server, wouldn't run on 64-bit Windows, Vista, Windows 7 or Server 2008, and even required that administrators skip certain Windows updates on older...

In my area at least, all Freecycle has on it is people whining that they need free diapers.

Filesystems change in the *Nix world pretty readily.New features for Windows file systems are usually interesting and useful copies of tools other OSes have had for years. This is probably a good thing.

I had to stay up all night. I got to watch four inches of snow evaporate from the parking lot over about the last six hours. Now it's all foggy and crap.

Baen actually slightly overspecializes in military SF that frequently has a libertarian bent. But they're very progressive about giving away their fiction and they strongly dislike DRM, which is one of the reasons I've supported the company.

When people who get really, legitimately snobby about keyboards, the discussion pretty much begins and ends with IBM Model Ms and Northgate Omnikey keyboards. I bought a friend a Model M clone a couple years ago and she's told me since it's worth whatever price I paid for it.

Does the freeze persist without the expander connected?

It's not difficult to get free copies of public domain literature in any format at all. I use H.P. Lovecraft texts for experimental purposes. The Baen Library has an awesome selection of material in a wide variety of formats as well. One of my first uses for Calibre was to convert all the stuff...

I'm just not interested in quantifying my relationships for datamining purposes or winning popularity contests.

For what it's worth, I'm not sure that Medfield is really all that interesting. Apparently Motorola likes it, but that could be because it got some kind of sweetheart on chips rather than any real advantages on the platform. Intel knows which side its bread is buttered on, though. If ARM makes...

I couldn't find any place that gave me the option of turning off their spam. I distinctly recall following unsubscribe-type links a number of times, but the messages eventually started coming again. I suspect I got new messages every time a different member told linkedin to spam everyone in...

I'm trying to be open minded.

And just to prove that MaxBurn isn't the only one following the mobile space, here's some interesting thoughts regarding Intel's x86-compatible Medfield SoC.

(Someone I just barely know but might've had a meeting with one time for 10 minutes) has invited you to join LinkedIn! I have LinkedIn and Facebook invites killed by the same filter rule.

OK. I officially dislike the Fire. The screen is just "meh", it's a little heavy for its size, it has a retarded custom UI and if there's an easier way to bring up the Android buttons OSD than turning the screen off and back on while reading an ebook with the Kindle software, I haven't found it...

LinkedIn does something besides generate spam?

I don't think it will happen, at least not at the behest of Microsoft. Too many organizations need to be able to manage their own software loadout on new systems. That being said, I can see some companies doing it on consumer class products. They would probably claim that it improves system...

Snort runs on dd WRT and OpenWRT. It probably works on Tomato as well, but I'm really not familiar with that at all.

It's not utterly beyond the realm of possibility that a mid-level engineer at a multinational corporation could be targeted for some kind of industrial espionage, but honestly that's definitely on the paranoid side of things. I do think we all know that antivirus software isn't terribly...

City of Heroes is owned by a Korean company, NCSoft. It's the same company that makes a game called Lineage. In Lineage, more or less every character looks like more or less every other character, and it was the most popular MMO in Korea. One of the most interesting aspects of City of Heroes...

I know of no combination of NTFS or SMB permissions that would cause that. For that matter, I can't think of a standard issue Local Security Policy setting that would do it, either. But Windows 7 does have a tool for configuring application execution settings. It's called Applocker. And you...

I'm not sure that I should be outraged about this. We're definitely more used to thinking that our handheld stuffs aren't open platforms like PCs. And of course I also have a sense that where one skilled hacker has a will, there is a way. I'd rather deal with an open ecosystem than a completely...

Some guy builds a functional copy of Photoshop, including the for-shit GUI, with HTML5 and CSS.

Having seen an actual photo of Coug, I can say that if nothing else he seems to have taken his sartorial cues from the earlier episodes of the Terminator franchise.

It's pretty hard to make a distinctive black candybar.

My favorite webcomic, Achewood, offers us this extended lesson on the nature of badassery and manliness. I'm not going to go posting eight relatively large images in-line in a thread that probably gets more page views than anything else on the site, but I'd like to present the sequence in its...

Honestly, it wasn't. It was her dumbass boss.

I just found out that the reason I had to get up at 3AM to restore crap from backups on a server I manage is that one of my customers hired a new person and, rather than telling me to set up a new PC, sat the person down at the server and gave her the domain administrator password to log in...