Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Sunday, January 14th, 2007
Last week my company was making some server changes (which hopefully I will blog about at some point) which necessitates a security check. Being a startup, we cannot afford a format ethical hack/penetration testing, so the next best thing is an automated security tool. I tried using Nessus from Windows, ...
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
The following was something I learned from a recent computer upgrade I did for someone else (from Windows ME to Windows 2000) - after installing Windows 2000 fresh, and getting all the drivers, there was still one unknown device left in Device Manager. Apparently it is a common problem with ...
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Friday, November 17th, 2006
After reading this gushing Techcrunch post on how good Wink's new people search feature is (it searchs all of three networks!), I decided to see if I can do the same via Google's new Custom Search Engine service. The result which can be tried below, is a new project: www.socialpeople.net ...
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Sunday, August 20th, 2006
I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY OR WARRANTY FOR THESE INSTRUCTIONS WHICH ARE NOT AUTHORIZED BY HP IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM. IF YOU ARE FOLLOWING THESE INSTRUCTIONS, YOU ARE DOING SO ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK
I recently troubleshooted an HP LaserJet 1100A all-in-one device for someone. The problem is that the ...
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Opera just released version 9 of their browser (see this).
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Thursday, June 15th, 2006
Yesterday my company ordered several of the newly released Treo 700p smart phones for myself and two other people in the company. The list price for these is $649 per phone (before any discounts).
The Bottom Line is that if you are selling something that expensive, then you better make sure ...
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
My good friend Daniel Goldman posted an interesting story at OperaWatch regarding the fact that Mozilla required a singed agreement from Opera Software before allowing them to use their RSS icon. It appears that Mozilla filed for trademarks on this icon and is planning on enforcing a licensing policy. More ...
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
(This is a followup on an earlier post about availability of GPS info on Sprint PCS's CDMA network)
Recently I had a short email exchange with someone at Sprint about obtaining access to their LBS information for the use in my company's products. My company targets a small vertical niche market ...
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Saturday, January 14th, 2006
After struggling to find WPA2 drivers for the Microsoft Wireless PCMCIA adaptor (MN-520) for a newly rebuilt laptop, I decided to post instructions as to where to find them. Especially, since this product has been discontinued by Microsoft and for some obscure reason removed them from Windows Update.
Anyway, to instal ...
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Monday, October 10th, 2005
A few months ago Dave Winer mentioned the so called "Yahoo problem" - the proliferation of subscribe buttons for different aggregators. Instead he proposes to have a single service which stores user's RSS feeds in an OPML file and different aggregators will access it. Of course this service will need ...
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