Yearly Archives: 2003

Newton iPod

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What drives these Newton owners? (I have one plugged in my office I can’t bear to throw away that the kids will occasionally play with.)

These guys are trying to create an iPod Newton with the goal of synching iTunes music onto two 5 Gig (Total 10) ATA PCMCIA cards. Newton treats storage like “soup” so chip memory and PCMCIA memory are all added together as one virtual memory space.

With no spinning drives, you will supposedly get a lot longer battery life. The RISC processor in the my Newton always seemed to chew up battery power… perhaps it is all just a joke.

MovableType 2.64

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Upgraded to 2.64 by moving appropriate folders/files into MT or MT-STATIC. The instructions say to FTP up to your web server, but since I’m sitting here on the web server, I just dragged the files/folders in the right places, taking extra care to individually copy extlib folders in, since the upgrade contents of extlib are a subset and not replace.

Made exports of all blogs prior to upgrade, just in case.

I wondered if permissions would have to be set on new directories, but apparently not. Perhaps they inherit the parent folder’s permissions.

Re-enable iTunes sharing outside local subnet

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This tip let our iBook (wireless… different subnet) reach our wired iMac.

Jun 10 ’03 at 09:49AM ?? from: lugal ??

Under iTunes 4.0, a lot of people started using music sharing to access the music on their home computers from work. Sadly, iTunes 4.0.1 removed this feature due to piracy concerns. Fortunately, you can re-enable iTunes sharing across subnets with the freeware Rendezvous Beacon.

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Combatting Junk Mail

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[Update: The website www.optoutprescreen.com is easier than the phone number and it is now 5 years, not 2. — 5/14/2011]

I called the number below. There is a 2 year and permanent opt out option:

From Clark Howard Show Notes Tuesday, July 22…

But if it’s junk mail you hate, you can do something about it by contacting the Direct Marketing Association. Send your request for “no more direct mail” to:

DMA

Mail Preference Service

P.O. Box 9008

Farmingdale, NY 11735

If you don’t feel like sending the letter, you can go to the Web site, the-dma.org and pay $5 to request no more mail. You can also call 1-888-5-OPT-OUT to have your name removed from the database for sending out pre-approved credit cards.

Now playing: Sweet Jane (Live) by Cowboy Junkies

Gandalf Better Off Than Merlin

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Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Security Update, February 13, 2002 (MSXML 3.0)

Q320920: Security Update (Windows Media Player 6.4)

814078: Security Update (Microsoft Jscript version 5.6, Windows 2000, Windows XP)

816093: Security Update Microsoft Virtual Machine (Microsoft VM)

823559: Security Update for Microsoft Windows

Security Update for Windows 2000 (823980)

330994: April 2003, Security Update for Outlook Express 6 SP1

818529: June 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1

Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Express Install for End Users

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (Windows 2000)

Wednesday, January 09, 2002

Windows 2000 Service Pack 2

Root Certificates

Security Update, November 20, 2001

Intel Corporation – Networking

Windows 2000 Compatibility Updates

Security Update, June 7, 2001

Security Update, October 10, 2001 (Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 2)

Security Update, July 27, 2001

Security Update, July 6, 2001

Security Update, June 22, 2001

Security Update, February 12, 2001

Security Update, February 5, 2001

Security Update, October 24, 2000

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6

Euro Conversion Tool

Security Update, December 13, 2001 (Internet Explorer 6)