Month: November 2005

Treo 650 SIM tray update

Last night I received a small envelope in the mail from Palm. It was stamped "Replacement parts enclosed" and I was puzzled because I didn't remember ordering any parts from them. It turns out that they're sending out replacement...

BooksC++Programming

Beyond the C++ Standard Library: An Introduction to Boost

I just finished reading Beyond the C++ Standard Library: An Introduction to Boost. A really interesting read. Some of the more interesting things that I picked up: boost::shared_ptr - like auto_ptr on steroids, a very nice...

TiVo

TiVo in Taiwan

According to Thomas Hawk, TiVo is expanding into Taiwan....

FirefoxGeneral

Firefox 1.5 is out

http://www.mozilla.com/ (note the .com, not .org...) Faster back/forward Automatic updates Drag n drop tabs SVG, Canvas, JS 1.6 support more details at http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.html...

GeneralMac

X11 ssh forwarding

Since I've been running Eclipse on my FreeBSD box and displaying it over X11 to my PowerBook, I wanted to enable X11 forwarding over ssh so that I wouldn't have to manually set the DISPLAY environment variable. I tried ssh -X and...

Palm

Great Sudoku freeware for Palm

This weekend I discovered, and became addicted to Sudoku. My family was sitting around the table doing Sudoku puzzles on paper that we had printed out from Web Sudoku and I was sitting there making little pencil marks with the...

General

Happy Thanksgiving

We're at Nicole's parents' house for Thanksgiving dinner. Nicole's grandfather is there too....