Slashdot | Tracing the Evolution of Social Software
We need a new study -- the archeology of software. There's immense invention and richness in the world of pre-1990 software -- most of it lost and forgotten. This is the beginning of understanding what's been done.
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Google Desktop Search Download
Google Desktop Search Download
I've been waiting months for this ...
Update: Ok, so it's a bit disappointing. No way to control where the index file is stored. It doesn't seem to index anything but the c: drive (that's quite surprising, maybe something is wrong ...). Doesn't seem to index even a mounted drive-file associated network share. Oddly enough, some VPN software is incompatible with GDS.
Yeah, it's "beta", but Google's so-called "Beta" software is generally pretty good.
There's a good chance, however, it will improve quickly.
I've been waiting months for this ...
Update: Ok, so it's a bit disappointing. No way to control where the index file is stored. It doesn't seem to index anything but the c: drive (that's quite surprising, maybe something is wrong ...). Doesn't seem to index even a mounted drive-file associated network share. Oddly enough, some VPN software is incompatible with GDS.
Yeah, it's "beta", but Google's so-called "Beta" software is generally pretty good.
There's a good chance, however, it will improve quickly.
Retrospect 6.5 - creating a disaster recovery CD
There's a link on Dantz's web site for creating an OS X boot CD:
http://kb.dantz.com/display/2n/index.asp?c=&cpc=&cid=&cat=&catURL=&r=0.6419031
A tutorial on preparing a disaster recovery CD for Windows 6.5 pro:
http://kb.dantz.com/display/2n/index.asp?c=&cpc=&cid=&cat=&catURL=&r=0.6419031
And these directions: Retrospect 6.5 - creating a disaster recovery CD
http://kb.dantz.com/display/2n/index.asp?c=&cpc=&cid=&cat=&catURL=&r=0.6419031
A tutorial on preparing a disaster recovery CD for Windows 6.5 pro:
http://kb.dantz.com/display/2n/index.asp?c=&cpc=&cid=&cat=&catURL=&r=0.6419031
And these directions: Retrospect 6.5 - creating a disaster recovery CD
Creating a Disaster Recovery CD : Retrospect’s Disaster Recovery preparation wizard can save a CD image file which you can later use with CD-R authoring and recording software to create a CD. The file is an image of a CD in the ISO 9660 format, which all popular authoring software can use to record, or "burn," a CD. Though most authoring software has the capability to burn a disc from an ISO image, some programs do not have an intuitive user interface for this feature and some programs poorly document this feature. The following is documentation for the most popular CD authoring software, detailing how to burn a disaster recovery CD from the image file saved by Retrospect.
Easy CD Creator (Adaptec/Roxio): Start Easy CD Creator and cancel any wizard that appears. From the File menu, choose Open CD Layout. In the file selection dialog, change the shown file type from Easy CD Creator to All Files, navigate to the disaster recovery ISO image, select it, and click Open. In the CD Creation Setup window which appears, select your desired CD recorder, leave the write speed and options as they are, and click OK to begin recording your disc.
CD Extreme (Sony): Start CD Extreme. At the default CD Starter window, click on the CD Extreme button/combo box in the lower right to go into the full application. From the File menu’s New Job submenu, choose Global-Image or Other Image. Click the ’...’ button at the far right of the Disk Image File area. In the file selection dialog, change the shown file type to Other Image, navigate to the disaster recovery ISO image, select it, and click Open. Click the Burn button to begin recording your disc.
Nero Burning Rom (Ahead Software): Start Nero and close the new compilation window, file browser window, and any wizard that appears. Choose Burn Image from the File menu. In the file selection dialog, change the shown file type to All Files, navigate to the disaster recovery ISO image, select it, and click Open. Click OK if Nero informs you it does not recognize the format of the image file. Nero presents its Foreign image settings dialog, which should have default settings of Data Mode 1, block size 2048 bytes, other values zero, and boxes unchecked. Click OK to work with these settings for the ISO image. Nero presents the Write CD window. Click Write to begin recording your disc.
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Speak like an Sciencefictian
Boing Boing: A talented speech therapist attended ...
Science fiction fans are alleged to have a characteristic pattern of speech. Sounds like geek/engineer speak to me. Guilty thereof.
Science fiction fans are alleged to have a characteristic pattern of speech. Sounds like geek/engineer speak to me. Guilty thereof.
Points for Safari over Firefox/Mozilla
Faughnan-Lagace Herald: Local and International News
Safari is often criticized for being less standards compliant than Firefox/Mozilla, but on this page it wins out. Both Safari and IE correctly refresh the iframe-embedded page, Firefox/Mozilla caches it until one manually clears the FF cache.
Now if Safari would only render recursive menu tags in a reasonable fashion ...
Safari is often criticized for being less standards compliant than Firefox/Mozilla, but on this page it wins out. Both Safari and IE correctly refresh the iframe-embedded page, Firefox/Mozilla caches it until one manually clears the FF cache.
Now if Safari would only render recursive menu tags in a reasonable fashion ...
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
USB Bluetooth Adapter (Class 2) - $40
USB Bluetooth Adapter (Class 2)
Reasonably compact. Still likely to get whacked off the side of a laptop. They might as well bundle it with some memory (thumb drive) given the size and shape.
Reasonably compact. Still likely to get whacked off the side of a laptop. They might as well bundle it with some memory (thumb drive) given the size and shape.
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