It doesn’t seem like much to ask. A tiny little thing. All I wanted was to get a copy of the PPD for my Samsung ML-2151N that has been my trusty laser printer for many years. I had misplaced it somehow, and couldn’t find the driver disk anywhere. So, naturally, I went to the Samsung website looking for it. What […]
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Tagged: mac, macosx, postscript, ppd, printer, rant, samsung, technology
Twenty plus years online, and it was eventually doomed to happen. Someone has decided to hijack my identity — or at least part of it — in order to commit a crime. Cleaning this mess up is going to be some kind of fun, but not sure it’s the kind I enjoy any more. The website that was registered was protectep.com, and […]
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Every year, I try to attend the PyCon conference dating back to to IPC7 or 8, I don’t recall. That was last century. This year, it’s once again in Atlanta, GA, and while it doesn’t make for the most exciting scenery, it’s a very functional arrangement. Just a few minutes ago, Jesse Noller announced the full list of talks, […]
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The ever interesting Jeremiah Owyang has a post up on his blog about what to do if your boss “friends” you on Facebook. Now, it was made over a year ago, but I just saw it when he re-posted a link to it on the twitterverse. It brings up the interesting idea of what options are available in such […]
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Tagged: facebook, friends, linkedin, social, socialnetworks, twitter
Nearly 15 years ago, the IETF gave final approval to the next version of IP: IPv6. This came after several years of extensive research, prototyping and work by a lot of very smart people attempting to solve the problems facing the then-current version, IPv4. The problem is, in the intervening years, IPv6 has not been rolled out […]
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Tagged: addressing, ipv4, ipv6, networking
For a while, I’ve been “surviving” with the iPhone earbuds, and they are, to put it simply, dreadful. They aren’t the worst I’ve ever heard, but they’re definitely a triumph of style over substance. Given I also own a pair of Etymotic Research ER-6i earphones, why was I using the dreadful Apple bits? Simple … the ER-6i made my ear […]
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Tagged: apple, etymotic, grado, headphones, iem
Currently, I subscribe to just over 740 RSS/Atom feeds in Google Reader. This has replaced my old stand-by of NetNewsWire that I used forever. There’s two main reasons for this. First, it’s available and always synchronized, something NetNewsWire wasn’t at the time. More importantly, though, is the “social” aspect that it brings with sharing of links with […]
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Distributed version control systems (DVCS) are all the range right now in the geek community. It has been just over 5 years since Matt Mackall announced Mercurial to the world, and about the same since Linus Torvalds announced Git. In the interveening years, both have sprung up to be worthy competitors to one another, and more […]
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We are not, as Darwin proffered, descended from the “lower mammals”. We are not the product of millions of years of evolution. We are, instead, the unrelenting descendant of telephone sanitizers. This was made ever more clear over the last few weeks as I struggled to explain to a client why charging their customers for the simple […]
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Tagged: business, government