Posted on Sun 24 June 2007 in geek
It took almost 24 hours to sync my music collection to the USB drive on my laptop over WiFi. It seems the combination of network and drive keeps the PC quite busy servicing interrupts even if it's not actually doing much. I wanted to take some films with me but …
Posted on Thu 21 June 2007 in geek
I was a little worried that the rather cute portable HD was broken as I tried to sync my music collection to it this evening. After a bit of poking around I discovered the USB hub was getting very hot. I don't know if this is directly it's fault or …
Posted on Fri 15 June 2007 in geek
In a remarkable display of the world organising it's self for my benefit I'm being sent by my company to the Ottawa Linux Symposium in a week or so. This is kind of handy as I start my holiday (in Ottawa) the following week. This of course does involve a …
Posted on Fri 18 May 2007 in geek
A lesson in reliance on one search engine. I was looking for the number for the Gio restaurent to book a table. Google's results looked promising but the number rung out. Evidently Yell are much more current. I suspect the old details are given more prominence due to old reviews …
Posted on Wed 02 May 2007 in geek
I noticed a lot of duplicate stories in my "technews" RSS feed this morning. The were all coming from the Digg, the social-network story posting site. What had evidently happened was one of the processing keys for decrypting AACS "protected" HD-DVDs has been posted to the 'net. Digg received a …