Tech

Ahh, the Rosetta Stone for Unix: need to know how to find the hardware configuration of a Solaris server, and you only remember the AIX commands? Look no further.

Given the steady pace of advancements in medical technology, suppose that at some point in the future, deaths due to old age and illness was no longer common, if even possible.

Suppose that technology was then applied to pets. This seems reasonable to me, since people love their pets. Also, a lot of times medicines are tested on animals before humans, so the treatments might be easier to apply to pets.

muTelnet is a small telnet client for J2ME/MIDP mobile devices. Some people have had luck getting it to work with the Sony-Ericsson T610; some haven’t.

When you’re a geek on vacation, the most important thing to know is where to get Internet access.

Intel’s Hotspot list

The WiFi Freespot Directory

CheeseBikini‘s map

Interesting article at The Register regarding “Internet Background Radiation — the average “static” that all Internet-connected nodes receive due to constant scans, pings, and errant data.

After a brief stint with the Stabbing Pain That Is Nextel, I upgraded my trusty old Nokia 8290 phone to a shiny new Sony Ericsson T610.

I love this phone. It’s truly a revolutionary leap beyond the old Nokia, acting as a PDA, a camera, and a voice-note recorder, as well being a pretty good phone.

I picked up a Belkin Bluetooth adapter for about $40, which drastically improves the usefulness of the phone. Using iSync, I’ve now got a standard set of contacts, calendars, and memos, between all my Macs, my .Mac account, my iPod, and my phone.

In reference to the MT Blacklist thread over at NSLog:

It seems to me that the better way of blocking comment spam would be to use a modified version of Realtime Blackhole Lists.

The downside of RBLs for email have been the fact that if you use them, you must rely solely upon the judgement of their maintainers. There is an implicit trust in the maintainers of the RBL, that they won’t block the entire continent of Asia just because of a few Tawainese spammers. Unfortunately, many RBL maintainers have, in the past, blocked whole major networks, just to “get attention”. This had the effect of wiping out email for enormous chunks of the Internet. Since most webloggers want to encourage commenting, this is not the result we want.

Battlefield 1942 is yet another example of why I hate buying video games.

My PC isn’t high-end, but an AMD 2600+ with 1GB RAM isn’t too shabby for most games.

Unfortunately, processor speed doesn’t mean so much for a game like BF1942.

Here’s how an average game goes:

“I think I’ll play BF1942.”

Time passes.

“Oh look, Here’s the game startup screen!”

Time passes.

“The unescapable intro movies are over. Now I get to choose a map!”

Since nobody tells me anything, I wasn’t aware that Gaim had been ported to Win32.

Gaim rocks far harder than Trillian, and truly shows what a bloated, worthless chunk of adware the real Aim client is.

While searching for a tiny, non-intensive CPU load monitor for WinXP, I discovered Glint.

Glint rocks. It’s freeware, tiny, and stupidly configurable. Get it now.