Ebay program turns airline points into pennies. What a sweet idea. Current exchange rate on points.com is 72 Ebay Anything Points per 100 AAdvantage miles. Admittedly, 0.7/mile is a bit low, but AA miles are almost worthless to me anyways. Now I don’t feel quite so silly about collecting all of those Kellogg’s cereal box … …
Sipix tech support confirmed that rechargeable batteries are incompatible with the StyleCam Blink II. I should add that their response time was excellent. Senate Deal Kills Effort to Extend Antiterror Act. In an agreement finalized over the last week, Senator Orrin G. Hatch, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dropped his effort to extend … …
New toy! My Sipix StyleCam Blink II digital camera arrived from Amazon. The instructions warn that using rechargeable batteries will damage the camera, which doesn’t make me too happy. In any case, it’s super-tiny and fun to play with. Not bad at all for $35.
Been going Ebay crazy again. Just got my $7 video card today (Matrox Millenium II). This puppy is dual booting XP Home and FreeBSD 4.6, and XFree86 is running beautifully. Speaking of Ebay, this feedback is hysterical.
Finally got file and printer sharing working between XP and Win98 (crossover cable connection). No messing with NetBIOS or Browser Master settings. The problem pretty much boiled down to the AutoLogon registry setting. When I either logoff and logon or disable the registry setting, everything works fine. No cryptic “unable to browse the network” message … …
Well, the XFree86 upgrade didn’t help much. The plan now is to nab a cheapo PCI video card (no AGP slot). Also couldn’t get the kernel to detect the integrated 10/100 Ethernet (Broadcom 4401) or my ActionTec PCI Lite modem (Agere chip) so I gotta look for another modem as well. Since the third PCI … …
Been playing with the new Dell most of the weekend. Didn’t take long for me to wipe out XP and repartition the drive for FreeBSD. It would seem, however, that the Dimension 2350 won’t run XFree86 4.2 properly given that its video configuration (Intel Extreme Graphics card with 845GL chipset) lacks AGP support. Gonna download … …
AP Cameraman Shot and Killed in West Bank. He and other cameramen, still photographers and reporters had been at the bottom of the alley and were wearing brightly colored vests that said “Press.” Just priced a P4-2.4Ghz/128Mb/30Gb/DVD-ROM with WinXP Home and a free Palm Zire for under $500 (Dimension 2350, Dell Small Business division). That … …
Guilty until proven innocent. [KFXO story regarding Mike Hawash was moved] Arrested and detained indefinitely without charges, but unlike the poor saps locked up at Gitmo, this is an American citizen. Why Am I Getting All This Spam? Pretty interesting study of how email addresses end up on spam lists.
Finally got my TrueType fonts working properly after updating Mozilla and building it three times this weekend. I don’t think the rebuilds made a difference as I’m pretty sure it had to do with copying fonts.dir to fonts.scale in the TrueType directory.