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 SIM trays to all Treo 650 Cingular Wireless customers. Apparently, the original tray doesn’t provide a tight enough . . . → Read More: Treo 650 SIM tray update

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 reference-counted smart pointer. Not only can it clean up memory allocated with new, but you can pass in a custom deleter . . . → Read More: Beyond the C++ Standard Library: An Introduction to Boost

TiVo in Taiwan

According to Thomas Hawk, TiVo is expanding . . . → Read More: TiVo in Taiwan

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 . . . → Read More: Firefox 1.5 is out

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 it wasn’t working, until I realized that I had X11Forwarding No in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config . . . → Read More: X11 ssh forwarding

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 possibilities and then erasing them and making a mess and it made me think how much better . . . → Read More: Great Sudoku freeware for Palm

Happy Thanksgiving

We’re at Nicole’s parents’ house for Thanksgiving dinner. Nicole’s grandfather is . . . → Read More: Happy Thanksgiving