Author: Marc

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....

General

Laptop update

My Toshiba A45-S250, after having its system fan and system board replaced, is mostly working. No BSoDs yet, knock wood. I had to take the battery out to get it to power on, otherwise it would just sit there with the AC power LED...

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Practical use of the Treo camera

OK, so we know that the Treo cameras, like cell phone cameras in general, are not great quality and aren't going to replace your digicam anytime soon... Since getting the Treo, I've been wondering what I could do with this little...