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...Ethernet! [1] You make my world go 'round.
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iPod Nano Greatness
The new iPod Nano - with its touch screen, pedometer, fm radio receiver, live pause radio, voice recorder, 16gb capacity, 24-hour battery life, clip and perfect size - is quite possibly the greatest invention since Kamen and his insulin pump.
This touch screen marvel is going to be responsible for
Facebook Madness
All of you Facebook people will now be privy to my location updates now that I've added support to whereiscurtis for cross-posting the updates onto Facebook.
And I'd like to take the opportunity to lament exactly how much Facebook documentation sucks. Their documentation is about as
NAS
My Western Digital NAS arrived this afternoon. It didn't take long to get it all RAID-0 configured. "Fatty" seemed an appropriate name for the 8TB beast (4 x 2TB). Hopefully one day that amount of storage will seem inconsequential. I'm still waiting on that
Precedence Madness
Why does == have a higher precedence than &?
It took me forever to figure out why:
if (value1 == value2 & mask)
wasn't producing the expected result. On a whim I forced the order of operations to:
if (value1 == (value2 & mask))
and that's when I realized
iPad Fail
While in Seattle I subscribed to the 3G service for my iPad. It worked beautifully. And the moment the wheels of the plane touched down in Atlanta, I turned on the iPad. Minutes later, and then hours later, it still had no data service; no Edge and no 3G.
AT&
Perforce Sucks
Seriously. What's the deal with Perforce? I have a local "workspace" which is all of the source code files, but the Perforce client sets them all to read-only. If I want to edit one of these files I have to manually check it out with the
Fidelity
Fidelity in relationships is important, and as such I've committed to not looking at another iPad prior to receiving mine (sometime late this month); and insofar as it is possible, not looking at another iPad. Here's to testing the limits of human will power.
Maybe I&
Flash
Flash is dead to me. And thanks to the work of dedicated developers, Flash can be dead to you, too - with the help of Click2Flash. If you use Safari. I'm sure help exists for FireFox, too.
Spectrum Analyzer [005]
I spent the better part of a week working on demodulation - but I haven't produced any sound yet. It's difficult to get straight, concise and understandable information on exactly how to filter and demodulate.
So, I went back to working on the UI. You can