Sony blocks video on youtube due to copyright
LAME.
I wanted to see the original clip of “Hitler reacts…” and was … BA BOWN … denied. Even when there are like 102789 parodies out there.
Posts Tagged ‘tech’
Blocking content by country is SO LAME
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Lotus Notes and the case of the hovering Mouse cursor
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010Tell me that isn’t annoying.
Hacking ticketmaster
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010IEEE Spectrum:
On March 1, four guys behind a Nevada-based start-up, Wiseguy Tickets, were indicted in New Jersey on 43 counts for fraudulently buying and selling over 1.5 million tickets online
To achieve this goal, Wiseguys deployed a nationwide computer network that opened thousands of simultaneous Internet connections from across the United States; impersonated thousands of individual ticket buyers; and defeated online ticket vendors’ security mechanisms.
That may be why their websites suck so badly.
eProductivity and GTD
Thursday, June 10th, 2010Ok, I’ve never been a big fan of Lotus Notes, especially since we were stuck on version 6 for so long. For a couple years, I took an Outlook break, and I’m also hooked on Gmail.
The upgrade to version 8 is a huge relief.
My good friend Toby put me onto the book by David Allen, “Getting Things Done”, which is a productivity system that really seems to work. During my stint with Outlook, I started using the GTD add-in, and loved it so much that the idea of giving it up when I moved back into the Lotus world was a real bummer.
Then I found eProductivity, the GTD solution for Lotus Notes. It is a replacement of the standard mail template. I have installed it on my company laptop, without having any special privileges (or permission), and I have had no problems at all with replication or interaction with other corporate applications. This is a significant statement considering the standard of our IT deparment, and the quality of our internal applications.
Luckily for me, I was an early Beta tester of the 1.x version, and just recently was selected for the 2.x Beta program.
Anyone who is interested should check out the Getting Started Video, and then download the trial template. They have done a very good job of the trial template – it will copy a sample of your inbox, and guide you through the GTD process of emptying it.
When is NaN.NaN.NaN?
Friday, June 4th, 2010
When is NaN.NaN.NaN?
Trying to select the ‹ or › results in the pop-up calender dissapearing, and the curious “Not a Number” date appearing.
Summary: it is not possible to enter a date using the pop-up calender for other than the current month.
The case of the stolen Gizmodo iPhone
Friday, June 4th, 2010I only have one question.
How the hell do you forget a brand new, super ultra top secret phone, in a bar?
Wouldn’t you be like, totally worried about someone either seeing, seeing you use it, grabbing it?
Hell, I have a POS BB, and I dont let it leave my sight. (Not because it is any good, but because getting it replaced would take forever, and I’m pretty lost without it)
SAP Warning
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Do you want to proceed?
When logging on to do submit some expenses, I was asked about the Transaction CO Through-postings from F1, and about how they were locked.
You better ask yourself, ”Do you want to proceed? Well, do ya? Punk?!
Update: Turns out that this means that month has been closed. It remains to be seen what that means for my expense claim.
The IBM Air Movement Device
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010Last night, I tweeted about my dead power supply, and mentioned that the AMD was malfunctioning. This was a reference to what I thought was a folklore story about an IBM computer reporting a faulty AMD, and noone being able to figure out what the fell an AMD was.
This morning, I Googled it, and sure enough, there is such a thing as an IBM AMD.
AKA fan
Usually, an acronym is supposed to save letters, but this time, the saving of letters is only because the original term was made needless complicated.
Word trying to raise the dead: Attached templates from servers long gone.
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010So, after the IT department failed to upgrade Lotus Notes remotely, they came to my desk, and ran Microsoft Update. Manually. And installed about 40 updates. Why hadn’t these been updated already? Don’t ask.
Some of these updates were for Office, and naturally, something went wrong. All of a sudden, Word started hanging when trying to open documents. Google found some forums, which lead to this article
Documents that have attached templates take a long time to open in Word 2002 and in Word 2003 …
So the solution is unplug from the network, and run a Macro, cutting and pasting into it every directory in which you may have documents with attached templates on non-existent servers. Oh fun.
Not to mention that I also dislike VB, especially VBA, and trying to research recursive directory search code requires the internet, which is disconnected because testing the VBA macro will hang. Nice.
Oh, and by the way, the AutoOpen macro? Yeah, it runs after the templates have been loaded, so no good trying to write a macro that fixes this only when you try to open this document.
Dear Lazyweb: write me an app that searches all my computer for Word files, detects an attached template beginning with “\\” and replaces it with “Normal”.
The 2o7 cookie.
Thursday, April 8th, 2010I started blocking cookies, just for fun, and was amazed how many sites try to give me a 207.net cookie!
This article was interesting, but not as interesting as one of the comments from the author:
Plus, if you think the ads are selling products, you’re sadly mistaken. The ads are selling you to the companies that make the products. You are the product. I find that offensive.
He did go on a bit of a rant however, about his electricity bill, which kind of ruined it. But I like the idea of realising that your anonymity is long-gone, and your browsing habits are a product, and someone if profiting from them.
Maybe someone in the ad industry would like to comment?