Meteor Sighting
A surveillance camera captured a ball of light streaking through the sky in Boise, Idaho. There were meteor sightings throughout the Pacific Northwest Tuesday morning. Video:
links for 2008-02-19
Getting the wordpress wp-cache plugin to work on GoDaddy hosting (tags: wordpress godaddy plugin cache workaround howto how-to)
Toshiba drops out of HD DVD war
Looks like the war is really over now. Toshiba has said it will stop making its high definition DVDs, ending a battle with rival format Blu-ray over which would be the industry standard.
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BitTorrent Developers Pledge To Subvert Comcast Filters BitTorrent developers have joined forces to propose a new protocol extension with the ability to bypass…interfering techniques used by Comcast and other ISPs (tags: bittorrent comcast workaround software)
links for 2008-02-16
U.S. will down failed satellite The Pentagon’s plan to shoot down a failed satellite with a missile defense interceptor in the coming days is aimed at preventing toxic fuel from reaching earth. (tags: satellite navy asat) System upgrade glitch behind BlackBerry outage a problem with a routine upgrade of an internal data-routing system appears to [...]
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Copy Tables and Keep Their Formatting with Table2Clipboard Here is an extension for Firefox that might be handy if you do a lot of copy/pasting of tables. (tags: firefox extension tables clipboard) Make your computer dual-boot Vista and XP If you’re not ready to dive into Vista all at once, there is an answer: set [...]
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Why a Yahoo-News Corp. deal makes sense This sounds much smater to me thant Microsoft+Yahoo! (tags: microsoft yahoo news newscorp)
links for 2008-02-13
Poynter Online – E-Media Tidbits Blogger Robert Patterson explored the technology and culture behind the innovative online wildfire coverage by KPBS San Diego (tags: twitter kpbs fires culture) Strike Update: When Are My Favorite Shows Coming Back? (tags: writers strike update tv television wga)
links for 2008-02-11
Make links in Word, Excel etc open in Firefox (Windows XP) (tags: firefox windows links word excel)
links for 2008-02-10
Inside Vista SP1 File Copy Improvements Mark Russinovich’s explanation of the new file copy improvements in Vista SP1. (tags: vista sp1 windows)