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During July of 2009, I predicted I would have problem with radio/electro-magnetic interference using the HES EnergyNet Internet service.
However, Energynet will suffer from the same faults of a crowded 2.4 Ghz band that includes routers, wireless phone handsets, and microwave ovens.
This is definitely true for microwave ovens. The wireless is completely unusable while the microwave [...]
I was there Monday night at the product demonstration for AT&T’s U-verse service. I think the Archos 5 performed fairly well to record the meeting. What I have is the full length U-verse demonstration given by Brian Claimer and the question/answer session that happened afterward.
AT&T U-Verse Presentation
AT&T U-Verse Q&A Discussion
In my opinion, the lawsuits flying [...]
Happy New Year! Let’s hope 2010 sucks less than 2009 did.
I said last week I would be posting an mp3 of that week’s sermon if I could get my Archos 5 device working correctly. The result surpassed my best expectations of what I thought the FM radio accessory was capable of. The microphone is so [...]
I’ve been terribly busy at work dealing with Christmas. Today was the first time I have come home before nightfall for the past two weeks. Looking forward two days from now, I eagerly anticipate opening my Christmas presents.
I’m old enough that Christmas is not a surprise anymore. In November, I decided what I wanted and [...]
Last week, my Internet service was switched from New Wave Communications to HES Energynet. Even though New Wave promised 1.5 megabits for our tier of service it only rarely met that level. Many times downloads would stall for no apparent reason. It is possible that some fault lies with my wireless router. Like I will [...]
Recently the Hopkinsville Police Department started publishing crime data for the city through CrimeReports.com. Among the positives for this service is the data itself which seems to be posted on a timely basis. CrimeReports.com provides two different views of the data; one is google map-based, the other uses a bar chart, pie chart, and line [...]
Wordpress v2.7 was released several weeks ago and I waited for compatibility news about Barthelme, my blog theme. That was until I read this post by the theme author. The author is giving up maintainership and he wants to pass it on to someone else. So… we’ll find out what happens with that in the [...]
No doubt your wondering what to do about blocking packages in Gentoo. The latest example involves a new package called sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs. It seems e2fsprogs-libs now includes functionality that was performed by sys-libs/ss, sys-libs/com_err, and sys-fs/e2fsprogs. The solution is to unmerge sys-libs/ss, sys-libs/com_err, and sys-fs/e2fsprogs then update like normal.
ebrake@scanner ~ $ emerge -pvuDN world
These are the [...]
