Archive for: February 2004

When I saw this headline in a recent Computerworld mag, my first thought was that the “Gates” Robert L. Mitchell was referring to was Bill Gatus of Borg. Mr. Mitchell describes the problem accurately in his …

Lately, I’ve found myself wanting to listen to music again. Not totally engrossing myself in it, but having it as a “background” to whatever it is I am doing. I hate dealing with changing discs in the CD player every …

I found the following on my “new” and “improved” cable company Wave Broadband:

Will Internet service from Wave Broadband work on any brand of computer?

Yes. High Speed Cable Internet service can be used on any …

One thing I do not like about being a telecommuter is doing expense reports. I have to do at least one per month in order to get my money back for legitimate work-related expenses, such as my phones, Internet service, …

An article that appeared in the Houston Chronicle stated that the FCC was going to start requiring VoIP providers to provide 911 service. Of course, there was the appropriate Debate on Slashdot about the …

My wife and I were discussing missing 10pm shows the other night (mostly because that’s the “new bedtime” for my son on weeknights now). The 10pm shows are the “better” shows, but they aren’t worth setting up the VCR to …

The name PhoneBoy was given to me by one of the hosts of Radionet Talk Radio, a radio show I used to work on in 1996. I used to screen calls for the show. The host forgot my …

After spending a bunch of time with a Sandisk Cruzer Mini 256mb USB Flash drive, I have come to the conclusion that, at least as far as Linux is concerned, these drives are POS. My Gentoo box immediately locks up, …

One app doesn’t work real well in Winsock mode — Outlook. While I desperately try not to use Outlook, I need it for a couple of reasons:

Accepting/Generating meeting requests
To send email from our CRM application

Oh …

With the proliferation of bootable Linux distros lately, it seems like I could have my own distribution if I wanted to. And given that I’m basically not happy with any of the ones I’ve found so far, I am so …