One of my colleagues has been interviewing with a startup whose co-founder I worked for in a previous life. My first reaction was a “Hell yeah, I’d go work for that guy again.” But when the subject came up again this week I had other thoughts. Like this guy walked away from the business as […]
Archive for February, 2007
Serial Entrepreneurs
22Feb07My mom called a few moments ago. When I hit the answer button the Treo 680 rebooted itself, not once, not even twice, but THREE TIMES in a row. A few minutes later it spontaneously rebooted yet again in its case. Last week it spontaneously rebooted twice in a row when I was futzing around […]
Dirty South
15Feb07I’m in the ATL. Not living up to the “Hotlanta” nickname this week, it is sooooo frickin’ cold and I couldn’t find my rarely-needed-in-South-Florida wool cap before I left yesterday morning. BrrrRRrrrr.
The Omni at CNN Center seems to have the world’s slowest WiFi Internet access.
Our office here has a pool table now. I am insanely […]
Stumbled upon the Vista Ultimate Extras this evening and was excited to see a Texas Hold ‘Em game. Like almost everything else in Vista, it’s very pretty. Unfortunately the computer opponents don’t play very well. These are my overall stats at the most difficult setting:
After a couple of rounds I figured out a strategy that […]
Vista and ISOs
11Feb07Two critically important tools on my laptop are the Microsoft “Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP” and Alex Fienman’s ISO Recorder (which also creates ISOs from CD / DVD). I am ridiculously bad at keeping track of installation media so whenever I get something new I make an ISO and mount it virtually or […]
Upgrade Hell, Part II
11Feb07The RAM for the new Dell is still kicking my ass. Downloaded the memtest86+ floppy image, ran it for a combined total of ~12 hours against each individual 1GB stick of RAM and had no errors. When I put both sticks in together, test #5 failed at every memory location.
I’m stumped.
I’ve also been unable to […]
Upgrade Hell
09Feb07Hardware and I have a long history of not getting along very well.
It turns out that I can’t re-use my 250GB PATA drives in the new Dell because the bottom mounting locations don’t have enough clearance for the PATA to SATA converters, it’s so tight that a native SATA drive has to use an […]
Flash Video
09Feb07Note to future self: Red5 is an open source Flash server that appears to hit all the basic requirements (streaming, live streams, recording), and FlowPlayer is open source Flash video player.
Note to GooTube: Combined Google Video and YouTube search sucks. I want to search only for stuff on Google Video, not only because Google Video […]
