In response to my post last week about Igor Falecki, the 4-year old drummer that wore it out in a YouTube video, Jason pointed out this video to me showing a very young Tony Royster, Jr. wearing out a set of drums . Since I am a drummer and we have a number of musicians that visit the site, I thought I would share it here. Enjoy!
http://www.dslinux.org/index.html
How freaking cool is that? Linux on the ol’ DS.
Hey, Joey, you got a DS for sale? 
http://www.saneasylum.com/articles/591
I have a problem in that my Start menu (yes, I use windows - you got a problem with that toughguy?) is really big. So big that it’s impossible to use without heavy swearing. So I wrote this little program called ASH which lets me do things much much faster.
The idea behind ASH is you stick all of your commonly used shortcuts - and even your semi-commonly used ones, into the folder with ASH. Then you hit Win key-Space, and the ASH box comes up. You type in the first few letters of the desired shortcut, hit Enter, and it’s running. I went from around 10 seconds to find a shortcut and double click it, to under 1 second. This is version 1, so I make no claims, but if this sounds interesting to you, give it shot and let me know what you think.
I recently purchased a Nokia E61 and love it. However, I have a little issue now.
When I originally purchased the phone I was using a Motorola HS850 Bluetooth headset. Voice dialing worked great. Press the button, wait for the nifty little tones and speak the contacts name.
Well, that headset died and now I am using the Plantronics Voyager 510. I activate the voice dialing feature on that headset (hold down the call button for 2 seconds) and the Speak Now message appears on the screen but after saying a name it just returns to the standby screen.
I have disconnected from the headset and tried holding down the record button. Same results… I get the nifty tones but after speaking the contacts name it just returns me to the standby screen.
Any ideas on why voice dialing is no longer working or where I can look to see if something is disabled?
Thanks in advance!
Jeff
That’s right today is the day, but at this point i’m sure if you don’t already have one…you’re not getting one. So i ran across a couple interesting links on IGN this morning (which i find myself checking more and more often).
The first link is a short article on the price of the PS3 versus the actual cost of making one. According to this, Sony is losing almost $250 per console sold.
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/746/746482p1.html
This second link tells about a couple of the issues they are finding with the new systems. Issues like upscaling not working at all, backwards compatibilty problems, and resolution problems if your tv doesn’t support 720p.
If you have been burdened by crappy name resolution thanks to Windstream, change to OpenDNS.org. Luke recommended this to me today in response to my recent cry for help. I just made the change on my Linksys router, and WOW are things faster. Thanks Luke, and thanks OpenDNS.org!
Josh
If you visit this blog, on at least a semi-annual basis, you’ll remember that I got an Apple MacBook about a month ago. I had never experienced Mac before and I instantly fell in love with it and its ’sexy middle core’, FreeBSD, since I am a bit of a FreeBSD fan as well. So, why is Apple “teh winnar” you ask? Here’s why…
I bought my MacBook on October 12th, 2006. My MacBook had a 2.00Ghz Intel Core Duo processor. About three to three and a half weeks after I bought my Mac, Apple came out with the Core 2 Duo MacBooks… for the same price! Wow! I should have waited… But I didn’t know… and no one told me… Am I stuck like Chuck? You all know Chuck, right? Well the answer is, no, I am not stuck like Chuck!
I was reading the new PC World magazine a couple of days ago and they were talking about cool new gadgets. Check this out. . .
This thing seems to be quite cool and the price seems very awesome, at an estimated price of $350.00. You can’t quite beat that!! Anyway hope you like!
phone guru,
jason
Okay Windstream, I want my DNS back, and I want it back NOW.
Ever since The Big Switch, my internet has been slow. REAL slow. While I am tempted to blame Bush, the signs lead me to think that DNS is at fault. Here is a typical evening at home for me:
Josh types: www.google.com
Google pops up. Good.
Josh enters a search term. “Teens” and “fisting” sound good, but might oughta stick with something a little more family-friendly.
Click on link to interesting website. Wait.
Firefox: Looking up www.someinterestingwebsite.com…
Josh: Wait more.
Firefox: Still looking…
CPU: Can’t we just get on with it?
Firefox: I’m still looking, dammit…
So what’s going on? Has anyone else noticed this?