Month: June 2005

Thoughts on Treo 650 GSM unlocked software 1.13-ROW (firmware 1.28)

So far it seems to be a mixed bag for me. The install instructions looked easy enough but it was a huge pain in the butt for me. While Hotsyncing, my Treo and my PC kept losing the connection and so everything wasn't getting...

PalmTreo

New Treo 650 Unlocked GSM firmware FINALLY released!

From the PalmOne site: What is the Treo 650 Updater 1.13? Optimizes memory handling and frees up more memory with non-volatile file system improvements (learn more) Updates VersaMail to heighten stability and add improvements...

General

Found remedy for problem with Retrospect Express HD

The Dantz Retrospect Express HD software that came with my Maxtor OneTouch 300 GB external backup drive suddenly starting giving me these errors lately: Retrospect has encountered a serious error: Assertion failure at...

Programming

Excellent article on MySQL replication

An excerpt from "High Performance MySQL" (Chapter 7: Replication) by Jeremy Zawodny and Derek Balling...

General

First day with Tiger Team

I will now be working on a wider variety of projects and getting to know people all across the company. I'm excited about it!

FirefoxGeneralProgramming

Firefox users, check out my XULog

Can you Firefox users give this a whirl? http://marc.abramowitz.info/xul.php Sort of an interesting way to navigate blogs, although probably not too useful to uber-geeks who only read my site through an RSS reader. The box at the...

JavaScriptProgramming

JSUIX: UNIX shell implemented in JavaScript

Wow, this is amazing! These guys implemented a fully-functional UNIX shell environment in JavaScript. You can even use vi! Thanks to the Lazy Hacker for finding this....