Category Archives: Commentary
iPad Irony
As seen within the masthead on Boing Boing.
UDP Port 4310
Who would’ve thought that I’d have to open up UDP port 4310 on a Sonicwall firewall to get IMAP working on a new Windows Server 2008r2? All was fine with the same server software on an old Windows 2000 Server behind the same firewall. We’re talking about moving a DNS record and a few gigabytes [...]
Also posted in Technology, Tip Tagged configuration, IT, MDaemon, support, tech, Windows Server 2008r2 Leave a comment
Gift Cards Are Evil
Since my wedding in 2007, I’ve decided that gift cash cards are evil. I’m not talking about product-specific gift certificates like iTunes cards, Home Depot, Amazon Gift Cards, etc. I’m talking about generic Visa/MasterCard cash cards like the Vanilla Visa or others. Why the hate? These cards have limited use and are frustrating to spend. [...]
The iPad Versus Flash
The iPad is revealed. And there is a wave of whining, excitement, confusion and PR spin like you’ve never seen. Like it’s older and smaller brothers, the iPhone and iPod Touch, the iPad doesn’t allow the Flash plug-in to run within the included Mobile Safari browser. This was a hot topic with the iPhone, but [...]
Also posted in Technology, Web Design/Development Tagged iPad Flash tablet PC Mac Apple Adobe computing Leave a comment
The State of Video Playback for Mac OSX Users
This is a quick little post inspired mostly by the comments to this news item regarding the open source VLC project. I’m sure I’ll want to refine and update it later, but right now I felt the need to jot this down. I won’t get into ripping, transcoding or conversion, this is all about playback. [...]
Also posted in Technology, Video Tagged 3ivx, codec, Divx, M2TS, Mac OS X, MKV, open source, Quicktime, Video Leave a comment
Thank You Ken Wilhelm
During the last half of 1994 into the first half of 1995 I was enrolled in a night class called Audio In Media at my alma mater, The Evergreen State College. Our instructor was a unique and somewhat legendary fellow named Ken Wilhelm. The class was for audio engineers and A/V geeks and Ken was [...]
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Upgrade Season 2009
While I was at work today I noticed a tweet that ever so casually mentioned that Apple announced, nay, was shipping both Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio upgrades. So I’m like “woot” and spent part of my lunch scanning what’s new. There are a lot of joyous tweets and surprised blog posts, all fo [...]
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