Author: Marc

Bought a TiVo for my parents

My parents' birthday (yes, that's right - parents' - they both have the same birthday) is this week and I wanted to get them something different this year. I went ahead and bought them a TiVo along with a 6 month gift...

ProgrammingRants

accretive design => headaches

Somebody summed up my thoughts succintly today about a particular piece of software that I had been playing with: "accretive design => headaches". He also pointed out that "accretive design" is an oxymoron, which I also think...

Programming

Updated mozilla.org bug requesting addition of Yahoo Search Sidebar to Mozilla Update

I updated the bug requesting that they add my Yahoo! Search Sidebar to Mozilla Update. All I had to do was provide them with a direct link to the .xpi file on my new sourceforge project page...

C++Programming

stlfilt

stlfilt is a nice package that you run as a frontend to g++ (or other compilers) and it collects all of those nasty, long STL errors and warnings with a bazillion template parameters and parses them into something that humans who...

Rants

I hate sites that break the Back button

One of the most irritating things a web site can do is to break the expected behavior of the Back button in my browser. So by using inappropriate caching settings, a site can make it so that the Back button refetches content,...

Windows

Windows XP and WiFi problem solved

After mucking around a bit with my wireless settings (in efforts to get WPA working with WDS with Sveasoft Alchemy with my new 5 port switch), I found my wireless malfunctioning in a most bizarre and highly annoying way. The...

TiVo

Finally got both TiVos networked

It took a while, but both of my TiVos are now on my home network. The first problem was that origianlly I had my WAP54G in client mode, but that only supports one wired client. So I had to install Sveasoft's Alchemy firmware on...