Marc Abramowitz – Page 131

Google Offers Transfer Tool for Computers

From AP: Google Offers Transfer Tool for Computers: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. is offering a new tool that will automatically transfer information from one personal computer to another, but anyone wanting that convenience...

Programming

Autogen

AutoGen is an interesting code generation tool that I just stumbled upon. What can you do with it? Well, let's say that we have a simple specification for what an Employee class might look like: autogen definitions employee;...

General

No comment

Yeah, so I was starting to think that y'all had stopped reading my blog or you were in agreement with everything I've been writing lately. Why? Because I hadn't seen any comments popping up in the moderation queue for a while,...

Lego

Motoring

"Sister Christian, oh the time has come..." :-) Got two new Lego Mindstorms motors in the mail yesterday (which I had bought off eBay). My old ones were sticking and my robot was having trouble getting around. When I plugged in...

General

How to find out more than you ever wanted to know about your router

STUN is a protocol that allows routers to find out about themselves by talking to a STUN server. There's an open-source STUN client at http://sourceforge.net/projects/stun/. ~/sw/stund$ ./client stun.xten.com STUN client version...

Firefox

Firefox 1.5.0.1 out

From http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1.html: February 1, 2006. Firefox 1.5.0.1 is a stability and security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We...

Thunderbird

Thunderbird: Automatic marking of messages as read

Personally, I hate this feature and the fact that you cannot turn it off - there is a checkbox in the preferences but it's meaning is whether to delay the marking - if you uncheck it, then the message is marked immediately. I...