Archive for the ‘General’ Category

VirtualBox on Core Duo 2 Vista 64 Host, Ubuntu Guest: Very good performance.

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

This surprised me: My laptop is an HP DV4, with 4 GB of RAM. I am watching a DVD (Foyle’s War: The German Woman”) playing on Windows Media Player, running on Vista 64. At the same time VirtualBox 3 is running, and on VBox Ubunto 9.04 is running.

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Video Progress Report

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

My $75 (used, on Craigslist) video camera works. I’ve shot a few (lame!) minutes of video, and have sucesffuly imported it into a computer via Firewire. That process was easy peasy.

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Learning Videography

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Last week I bought a JVC GR-DVM90 video camera. When it was introduced in 2001, the list price was $1,600. Thanks to the passing of time and the abundance of new and oh so shiny objects, I paid $75 for the complete kit. Thank you, Craigslist.

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Tom Chikoore likes (!) TouchTerm for iPhone

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Tom Chikoore, co-founder and CTO of Filtrbox. likes (!) TouchTerm for iPhone.

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Claus Valca: How to “Posterize” a printout (fast and free)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Claus Valca explains how to “posterize” or print a BIG drawing (way bigger than your printer can natively handle) on multiple sheets of paper you then tape together. Step by step, using free tools. It’s all good.

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Skype on Blackberry with 3G Data

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Peter Macaulay writes: “Skype just announced Skype for the Blackberry over 3G data packets (not just WiFi) in 10 countries.

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Carol Wilson: Telecom trade press struggling

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Carol, Wilson writes in Telephony magazine End of an era: Telecom trade press struggling. Telephony is considering charging for the printed magazine to avoid going web-only.

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Roger Crona (a.k.a Jason von Straussenburg) Rest in Peace

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Radio personality Paul Harvey died recently. Harvey’s signature line — “That’s the rest of the story” — applies perfectly to this follow-up about the recent death of Jason von Straussenbrg.

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Jason VON STRAUSSENBURG, Rest in Peace

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

A Santa Barbara friend sent me this obituary notice which deserves a wider audience.

VON STRAUSSENBURG, Jason

March 15, 2009 9:15 AM

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Chris Kelly’s Grand Plan 2.0

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Chris Kelly writes about his original Grand Plan, now trashed by our current aweful economic situation. Please read his post.

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“You can’t spend confidence” — James Quinn

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Below are excerpts from the article STAIRWAY TO RETAIL HEAVEN by James Quinn, March 3, 2009. [via Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed]

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A friend says: “I don’t Facebook”

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

I ran across very funny (if slightly not safe for work) video today on Facebook. So, as is my nature, I emailed the link to a very tech savvy friend who I pretty much knew would appreciate the link. But no.

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