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My Dell Axim X50 locks up a lot, often with a screen that stays solid white, refuses to turn on without a reset, and loses alignment frequently. A hard reset that took about 2 hours of labour to prepare for and recover from didn’t fix these problems, so Dell is issuing a replacement. [...]
I missed this one, Balmer denies throwing chairs. Throwing chairs is hardly evil and not worth denying if one actually did so; therefore, I don’t have any reason to disbelieve Mr. Balmer.
From The High Cost of Complexity:
Whether you call it overabundance of possessions or just plain clutter, material things do consume a lot of our time. People spend their precious non-renewable resource, time, in order to acquire more money and possessions, only to discover that the possessions do little to further their enjoyment of life. In [...]
From an email in response to sending a friend a brief clip in Quicktime (.mov) format:
Hi Doug.
Unfortunately, your movie wouldn’t play on our computer.
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If you are trying to get your airport express working with your wireless router (rather than a built in wireless card), the Airport Admin Utility won’t work unless you jack the Airport Express into your router with an ethernet cable. Then you can configure it to join an existing network, at which time you [...]
I have always been interested in theorys that contribute to organizational or process improvement and in my own judgement make a lot of sense, like “Theory of Constraints”, “Systems Thinking”, and “Lean Thinking”. I have been looking at Theory of Constraints recently for a non-software related project I am working on, but I was [...]
I agree with Mr. Bray on this one. RSS/Atom brands and their graphic logos are too geeky and and modern browsers/aggregators are too hard to use. A ton of clicking to switch feeds/articles, which is the way most programmers I have known (nobody else I know uses a feed reader) seem to [...]
Bill Gates mentions Mind MappingTechnorati Tags: Mind Mapping, Bill Gates
I have recently been doing some writing in DocBook. It was certainly refreshing to write in an environment in which I did not need to worry about formatting while I wrote. Using DocBook it is easy to have consistent formatting throughout a document, something that I find incredibly time consuming and near impossible [...]
Yak doesn’t advertise their long distance and VOIP services all that much. Their long distance is certainly cheaper the Primus.
I have not yet found a long distance provider or local service (PSTN) provider who will allow me to make calls from my PC as well as my telephone without an extra charge.
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