December 2006

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Today’s Fortune

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don’t have film.

MMC – hard to find MultiMediaCard format

I gave Roxane my old digital camera for Christmas (I got a new little Olympus FE-115), so I went shopping at several local stores for a 32-64MB MMC card for it… No luck – no one carries them anymore… A quick search gave me a few options for online purchase, and the best seemed to [...]

‘Kiwi!’ by Dony Permedi

Brilliant short film by Dony Permedi for his Master’s Thesis in Animation – more info and an online interview

Dear Network Solutions, Please, stop the madness…

Update: As of 12/21/06, after re-sending the same email on the 12th, no reply… —– Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 06:17:25 -0600 From: Michael To: dnsadmin@networksolutions.com, nocsupervisor@networksolutions.com Subject: Poorly configured records for resalehost.networksolutions.com Hello, I understand from a bit of searching that Network Solutions replaces or wildcards expired domains with records for resalehost.networksolutions.com, however, this [...]

Sierra Wireless AirCard 595 Configuration (SprintPCS)

Got my hands on a SprintPCS Sierra Wireless AirCard 595 for testing out connectivity under linux (Xubuntu 6.10, to be precise (and now Debian Etch)) – works perfectly Plug the card in, and dmesg should show similar to: [17188167.136000] pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0 [17188167.212000] ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 ‘Open’ Host [...]