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Where Richard Kuo posts about whatever happens to be on his mind at the time.
February 2006 - Posts
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20% time...it's one of those mythically interesting things that Google does. Basically, you get 20% of your time to work on any other project. Keep in mind it has to be something potentially useful...it can't be "Doing my laundry". Besides, Google has Read More...
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In a fit of what must be either divine inspiration or complete lunacy, Mark Cuban has offered to donate a million dollars to charity if Donald Trump will put a rubber glove over his head and blow it up with his nose until it explodes. This would be, of Read More...
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My very first laptop was an IBM Thinkpad 500. I won't go into the specs except to say it was OLD. One spec I will mention is that it had a Trackpoint. You know, one of those eraserhead things that barely stick out of the middle of the keyboard. At the Read More...
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VPN's, or Virtual Private Networks, are a bit of a tricky beast. VPN's allow remote clients or sites to join with your internal network as if they are right there in the building. Hence the "Virtual" part of the term. You can get complete connectivity Read More...
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In my previous post on unwiring the house, I mentioned that one of the primary motivations came about because I wanted to give the Roomba clear berth to do its job. I promised to write more about the Roomba, so here it comes. I'm all about cutting the Read More...
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The other day, I had a chance to check out the Live Messenger beta on a fellow developer's machine here at SnapStream . Sadly, we mostly just sat there making fun of it. There are so many things wrong with it I don't really know where to begin. Downloading Read More...
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Ahh, the state of gaming on the PC is rather grim at the moment. Consoles are where the money is at, and publishers have been flocking there in droves. Games on PC's are increasingly skewing towards MMORPG's and rehashed FPS's...which I have no intention Read More...
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So apparently, Google hits websites with a so-called death penalty if they perform shenanigans like returning different results for search engines as compared to regular users. This policy, for obvious reasons, keeps the integrity of the search process Read More...
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Eric Mack (well known for Getting Things Done and Tablet PC's) is asking about using external monitors with a Tablet PC . Here's my advice...if sticking to the traditional approach of hooking up an external monitor to the tablet is favored, then just Read More...
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I've been playing with the most recent CTP of Vista over the past few days in order to test compatibility and just get a general feel for where this next version of the operating system is taking us. So far, I'm generally pretty interested in several Read More...
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I bought a Toshiba M200 about two months ago. The special thing about the M200 is that, unlike most notebooks, it is a convertible Tablet PC. What prompted me to do this? Two things. One, my main laptop broke, so I needed a replacement and it got me thinking Read More...
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For some reason, I like snacking on artificially formed potato crisps. Yep, that's right. Is it not odd that they are called crisps instead of chips? I suppose calling them potato chips is a crime that would get you arrested by the mattress tag police. Read More...
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After heading out to get some networking gear from Fry's , I spent the earlier part of yesterday installing the goods. Let's keep this short. It all pretty much works. The wireless PCI cards from Airlink I bought seem to work fine. I put one of the adapters Read More...
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After many entries into the Win a DocuPen RC800 contest , Rob Bushway has finally picked the winner of the contest . Go ahead and read the winning entry. I have to say that I'm a bit puzzled by his choice. Keep in mind the form factor of the DocuPen RC800. Read More...
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On our way back from Fry's, I was musing upon the installation I was going to have to do with this new networking equipment. So I had to ask the million dollar question...why do we need special drivers for network adapters any more? Isn't the whole concept Read More...
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I recently got a Roomba , on account of the fact that...well, let's just say I don't clean up as often as I should. I'll write up a full posting later on that, but in the mean time, I'll simply mention that part of getting a space "Roomba ready" is getting Read More...
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Interestingly, there's a blog post from Frank La Vigne describing how a list of approximately 3000 words known as obscenities won't be shown as potential choices to the user. I wonder if this applies to the actual handwriting recognition. I don't know Read More...
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