Computing
ntop
Aug/25/2010 10:10 PM
I’ve been playing with ntop, a rather neat way to monitor network traffic. I’ve got it connected to my personal machine at home, and it’s able to monitor all network traffic (of any kind - TCP/IP, raw ethernet, whatever). It’s slick and powerful. Read More...
Google's New Toys
May/19/2010 01:01 PM
This week is Google I/O, and Google is releasing a slew of new technologies. I’m excited about a couple of ‘em:
- Google Font Directory (and the Google Font API)
- WebM: A new video codec, open-source, and a successor to Ogg Theora
MythTV Follow-Up
Apr/19/2010 04:49 PM
After having tweaked my MythTV setup some, I can say it’s starting to actually work. I found another HDMI cable, and a joiner that let me join two fairly long HDMI cables into one cable long enough for the run. I then found I had to replace my nVIDIA GeForce 6200 with a newer card, preferably one that supported nVIDIA’s VDPAU extensions for X11 (VDPAU is a GPU/video decoder library). So with a cheap $40 GeForce GT 220, I can now play full 1080i HD video, with 5.1 surround sound. Read More...
MythTV
Mar/13/2010 01:40 PM
A short tale of my experience with MythTV - probably the most popular Linux DVR software package. Read More...
Apple Mail: Triumph and Tragedy
Feb/18/2010 07:03 PM
I generally only discover new things when something isn’t working for me... and I couldn’t use Apple’s Mail.app to access my Gmail account. (And suddenly, at that -- it worked a few days ago...) Read More...
The Big Enema
Feb/01/2010 03:18 PM
Well, I finally caved: After about three years with the same installation, I nuked my hard drive and re-installed from scratch. Read More...
Holy crap, Google!
Jan/22/2010 05:05 PM
Google crawls some places at the speed of light, apparently... Read More...
Google Public DNS
Dec/03/2009 01:30 PM
Google announced Google Public DNS today; why I think it’s a good thing. Read More...
Hallelujah!
Oct/27/2007 10:47 PM
My copy of OS X 10.5 “Leopard” came in the mail today. My impressions. Read More...