Author: Marc

Boarding the bus to the Yahoo Year End Party (YEP)

Boarding the bus to the Yahoo Year End Party (YEP), originally uploaded by msabramo. The theme is Bayou by the Bay and it's at the San Mateo Expo Center. Featured act is Earth, Wind, and Fire....

General

Bird flu reaches Orange County

PalmTreo

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...