tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59769512011-04-21T11:12:03.212-07:00The Outpostthings that drive me crazykenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1120665492601008562005-07-06T08:56:00.000-07:002005-07-06T08:58:12.606-07:00HoodlumsThese guys are nothing but hoodlums.What EXACTLY do they want, people would just protest anything.http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/06/g8.main.ap/index.htmlG8 gives money away and people still say they want more.I am tired of it.kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1118852210062645522005-06-15T09:11:00.000-07:002005-06-15T09:16:50.066-07:00BETTER DEAD THAN REDBig Blue turns red, yes IBM is a chinese company. Call it IBM, call it Levono, call it what ever you want. It's a chinese Company, which in turn mean Lenovo (IBM) is at least paritally owned by the Chinese government, the same government that is giving Aid for nuclear technology to Iran and North Korea. I know this is old news but there was a atory the other day about a Dell kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1117729571904851332005-06-02T09:24:00.000-07:002005-06-02T09:26:11.906-07:00Deep Throat is scumNow that he looks like an elderly old man people are revering him, but the only reason W. Mark Felt blow the wistle is because Nixon passed him over for the top FBI job, otherwise he would have been quiet.What a scum bag.kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1117729393019087152005-06-02T09:21:00.000-07:002005-06-02T09:23:13.023-07:00Outsourcing is hurting AmericaHow can you still say Outsourcing is helping America.Job reductions soar 42% in MayPretty soon we are all going to be saying"You want fries with that ?"kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1117057053412428392005-05-25T14:34:00.000-07:002005-05-25T14:37:33.416-07:00Dont use a cell phone while drivingUnless you are wearing an earbug don't use your cell phone while driving.All these people that say, cell phone use doesn't impede your driving.Just go driving down the highway, the first person you see going REALLY slow or weaving in their lanes, i will gaurantee they are talking on their Cell Phone.Then you have the rocket scientists in parking lots trying to kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1116451824102567642005-05-18T14:29:00.000-07:002005-05-18T14:32:57.946-07:00New XBOX 360I just read this and and they are running the new XBOX 360 on a PowerPC chip not intel. Does that mean Microsoft can run Windows on a Mac now ? Or are they using an emulation layer.Very Interesting XBOX 360 developementkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1116264911247914502005-05-16T10:32:00.000-07:002005-05-16T10:35:11.256-07:00Firefox ad blockingThe built in Firefox ad blocking is good, but this ad on make it great !Adblockloaded with Filterset.GFilterset.G is described in the readme as:The guiding principle behind this filterset is efficiency. Conservative domain blocking, careful use of Regular Expressions, and a strict stance against false positives help to avoid the problems faced by other filtersets, from kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1116029095509910712005-05-13T17:03:00.000-07:002005-05-13T17:04:55.513-07:00 Say it once i will say it againWhy is it that whenever there is a speculation that oil is going up the gas at the pumps go up ?But when the oil prices actually go down later, they always say , well it takes weeks for the prices to filter down.Sounds like they are talking out both sides of their headskenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1115966407769450692005-05-12T23:37:00.000-07:002005-05-12T23:40:07.773-07:00Welcome Apple ! (Really)To the place Microsoft has been for yearsCustomer: I want to be secure ! I want to be secure !!Microsoft: Ok, but we need to make it inconvenient for you.Customer: No, never mind. I dont want to be bothered.An article basically saying the same thing from MacWeek no less. THis gut that wrote this article is such a fool !I give it 1 month, 2 tops before the bad, pigging kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1115912116255388432005-05-12T08:27:00.000-07:002005-05-12T08:35:16.263-07:00Mac just worksLet me start off with that i am not a MAC advocate, my mainstay is a Sony Vaio Notebook.The Kids use the iMAC flat panel machine al lthe time to cruze the internet and play games. They are frustrated because alot of the games online and in the store are PC only.But i love the mac because of its photo, music and video handling. I know, i know the PC has all these but the MAC makes itkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1115761139781864732005-05-10T14:37:00.000-07:002005-05-10T14:38:59.786-07:00Spammers / Phishers / Adware will never go awayAll the big software companies are in Washington D.C. with their lobbyists, trying to "protect" us from spammers and misc bad people. What they are really doing is just pushing their own agenda through to suit their needs.Unfortuanately Spammers will NEVER go awaykenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1114816088660671592005-04-29T16:07:00.000-07:002005-04-29T16:08:08.663-07:00Why to get rid of your HandheldI love gadgets, there is no question. I write about them and use them, then i asked my self which ones do i REALLY use.The answer surprised even me. The only real devices i use every day are my Laptop Sony Vaio) and my Samsung (i600) Smartphone.My BlackBerry is great but the battery life is anemic, the PALM 600 is fine, but its a little bit big for me, and the kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1114461601345443532005-04-25T13:38:00.000-07:002005-04-25T13:40:01.346-07:00Extending Daylight savingsGive me a break. Allowing states to opt out if they wish, the millions and millions of electronic devices that would need upgrading, would proably offset the savings of the oil.Read all about itkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1114036406424534582005-04-20T15:31:00.000-07:002005-04-20T15:33:26.426-07:00iPod musingsWhy are all the speakers for the iPod so darn expensive. I am looking to add a nice integrated speaker for my daughter so she can have an iPod alarm clock.I tried giving a pait of older PC speakers, but she said they looked to ugly.So i went out to the Apple store and the cheapest pair was $129.WOW !kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1113413424099324682005-04-13T10:25:00.000-07:002005-04-13T10:32:01.916-07:00Mobile DevicesWhy is the developement for the Windows PocketPC SmartPhone so expensive ?With most of these mobile devices the developer needs to "sign" the application to make sure its not a Rogue application.For the BlackBerry its $100 per a year with as many signings as you want. For the PocketPC SmartPhone it is something like $500 per 10 signings from Verisign.So if i make 10 builds of an kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1112888310094841582005-04-07T08:36:00.000-07:002005-04-07T08:38:30.096-07:00So What? Microsoft has a MonopolyI am paying $2.50 for a gallon of gas. I first blamed the OPEC nations, now i am looking at the record profits by all the American oil companies.THEY ARE GOUGING US !!There is nothing we can do.Yet Mirosoft is selling their Windows OS and Office far cheapers than you can imagine !kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1110307088067692662005-03-08T10:36:00.000-08:002005-03-08T10:38:08.070-08:00MY LIFE WITH AN IPODMy daughter, my son and I were in the Apple store the other day. My daughter looks up at all the splashy ads, says she wants an iPod mini. I asked her, do you even know what an iPod is? She replied that it plays some kinds of music. Feeling smart, I told her she has to come up with half the money and I would put up the other half, making it a familiy iPod. Thinking it would kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1105030596296765622005-01-06T08:55:00.000-08:002005-01-06T08:57:17.420-08:00Microsoft Anti-SpyWare Program This program is finally released. It's BETA but it's basically the same program they got when they bought "The Giant Company" Microsoft Anti-Spyware Programkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1104947190691290172005-01-05T09:45:00.000-08:002005-01-05T09:46:30.690-08:00This stuff look really interesting Am trying it now. The Ultimate Freeware Toolkit kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1104782849392147742005-01-02T13:04:00.000-08:002005-01-03T12:07:29.393-08:00XP Power toys that i like to use You of the great things part of the original XP Power tools was the ability to burn .ISO images with a click of the button. They removed that with the current XP power toys but someone has revived it. ISO image burner kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1104780725587824752005-01-01T11:30:00.000-08:002005-01-03T11:32:05.586-08:00windows NT 4.0 support ends today I like to use that for quick software testing because there arent any complex details to setup NT 4.0 support ends kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1104440256280239232004-12-30T13:55:00.000-08:002004-12-30T15:34:06.616-08:00Peer to Peer without any spyware eMule, i have been messing with it and it looks to be ok, Get it here Low price MAC Could Apple really be getting with it and releasing a low priced Macintosh ? http://apple.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000103025426 Great picture handler for Windows Its an iPhoto for Windows Picasakenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1103649023789211712004-12-21T08:58:00.000-08:002004-12-21T09:10:23.790-08:00HTTP Debugger This is for developers who want to see whats going on between the brosers and the web server HTTP Debugging Proxy Clean the clutter of CDS holders Finally i can find the CD i want right away Disc Stakka CD and DVD Management System Portable Linux Essentially it's an entire Linux distro that provides most of the communication apps and fits on a USB keychain. You can plug it into kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1103218040622781142004-12-16T08:56:00.000-08:002004-12-16T09:27:20.623-08:00Cellphones on Airplanes As far a s safety is concerned i am sure its not problem, I just don't want to be sitting next to one of these loud mouth people curing the entire flight. Yack Yack Yack. O, Please give it a rest. FCC looking at allow wireless on planes IBM computer to China, Part 2 Here is a really good take on why IBM sold the PC division so cheap to a Chinese company. If You Want to kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1102543385029278132004-12-08T14:00:00.000-08:002004-12-08T14:07:57.373-08:00And this country trusted him? I always knew Bill Clinton would sell his soul for a dollar Clinton endorses Chinese Government backed Search Engine ... For a Price What a Scum Bag. 3Com Audrey, Internet Appliance I alway wanted one of these 3Com Audreys, On E-Bay about $90 bucks kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1102089461185109942004-12-03T07:55:00.000-08:002004-12-03T15:11:40.290-08:00SideKick II free from Amazon This looks like a good deal a Free SideKick II from Amazon. I have heard many good things about the Sidekick II. Its just T-Mobile service is something of a problem. The End of an Era IBM to sell their PC division to a Chinese company. We are giving them our technology so they can give the weapons and technology to rougue nations. It is happening every day, dont kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1102028862284927142004-12-02T15:04:00.000-08:002004-12-02T15:07:42.283-08:00The SPOT Watch Looks like Tiger Direct is offering the Fossil Microsoft SPOT watch for $29.99 after rebate. Pretty cool, if i get a company company bonus i want one. kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1101237528279302782004-11-23T11:17:00.000-08:002004-11-23T11:18:48.280-08:00Interesting utility I came across this today, going to give it a try. http://www.konfabulator.com I looks like the Apple Dashboard in their new OS release. kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1100888830585538082004-11-19T10:23:00.000-08:002004-11-19T10:27:10.586-08:00Security and Microsoft, No Really So much has been written about how poor microsoft is about security for thier online system. I have been to many Trade Shows and have heard very good seminars put on by Microsoft about security. Believe me they know security, they know how to break into systems and how to prevent it. Think about how many Microsoft systems are out there and how many times people kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1100650313767019472004-11-16T16:09:00.000-08:002004-11-16T16:11:53.766-08:00If you really look at it, you have millions of users, who have no idea how to configure a system, but they want all their internet programs to work. THen you have thousands of people everyday trying to break in. I am surpirsed ther eare not more problems. http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/11/16/HNmsitforum_1.html You can say a MAC or linux is more secure, but that is false. For he MAC there kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1100558409873707432004-11-15T14:37:00.000-08:002004-11-15T14:43:57.266-08:00Novell vs. Microsoft again Novell is claiming that Microsoft stunted their growth of WordPerfect running on Windows (http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=135016&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=6&liChannelID=28&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1) as i remember it, WordPerfect tried to put out an OS/2 version first, then realizing that is not were the market was going, kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1098983897776667912004-10-28T10:13:00.000-07:002004-10-28T10:28:31.193-07:00What can i say ? The Boston Red Sox have won a world series. I didnt think i would ever say that in my life time. Its been 86 years http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/baseball/mlb/specials/postseason/2004/10/27/bc.bbo.worldseries.ap/index.html http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/specials/postseason/2004/ Finally kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1097864004597707752004-10-15T11:08:00.000-07:002004-10-15T11:19:53.253-07:00Google released a BETA of a Desktop search tool (desktop.google.com), the neat thing is that is works with Outlook as well. It an also be used with AIM but i dont think having logs of your IMs hanging around would be a good thing. I have tried Open Office(http://www.openoffice.org/) for Windows, the Word/Spreadsheet look ok, i was surprised. I tried it on Linux it was OK, except of course for kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1095266236441373062004-09-15T09:36:00.000-07:002004-09-15T09:37:16.443-07:00Why is is everyone hates America until they need help, then if they dont get any help, they say its even worse. I think we should be like china and don't give anything to anybody. kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1093641311763778542004-08-27T14:14:00.000-07:002004-08-27T14:18:43.373-07:00I want to know why when Iraq was invaded, oil prices here skyrocket. But when the price of crude oil per a barrel goes to a history high. The price of gas has barely moved ? Also the person who invented so many things associated with the computer http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html and a nice article about him now http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040826.html kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1088007220156196322004-06-23T09:12:00.000-07:002004-09-14T10:47:40.673-07:00Why would any one want to do an Atkins Diet, when you just look at the food and it looks like a heart attack waiting to happen. kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1074065227386163762004-01-13T23:27:00.000-08:002004-01-13T23:28:58.250-08:00How to these F'kers get off. http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/13/enron.fastows/index.html these bilked billions from innocent people and jsut because they dont havea gun they are let off easy kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1074042857427596402004-01-13T17:14:00.000-08:002004-01-13T17:16:08.123-08:00F Pete Rose. kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1066843759054770932003-10-22T10:29:00.000-07:002004-01-13T17:19:17.653-08:00Here is a ding for linux people. If they REALLY want to knock microsoft off the block, stop making 100 different ways to do things. Yes choice is good, but to many choices make things confusing. Take the user interface for example, pick 1 make it really good and standerdize on it. THen you can move on and make something else better, then move on. kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976951.post-1066843538571996442003-10-22T10:25:00.000-07:002003-10-22T10:25:38.453-07:00Why do we laugh at the words moist ?kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265165156021215130noreply@blogger.com