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By brian, on December 1st, 2005% The only problem with being forced to mount your satellite dish on the roof due to Condo/multi-dwelling unit rules?
No way to get to the dish to wipe the snow off the LNB. My neighbors own the upstairs patio, and I have a feeling they’d get suspicous of someone climing up their wall in the late evening to fix his dish. The vast majority of my channels are now de-watchable until the snow melts. The spot beam signals are still pretty strong (Transponder 18 is the Seattle locals). Too bad the simpsons aren’t on for another 20 minutes on FOX. I guess I’ll go post a blog entry while …
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By erich, on November 16th, 2005% Nokia is about to release an Internet tablet that uses the BusyBox Linux Distribution …
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By brian, on November 10th, 2005% Sorry to post something unoriginal… But while writing some code at work, I was reminded of this poem that I first read probably 6 or 7 years ago that has always been really funny to me. I wanted to post it here so I wouldn’t forget it again.
programmer’s poem
Authors: Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese
!*”# ^@`$$- *!’$_ %*#4 &)../ {~|**SYSTEM HALTED
waka waka bang splat tick tick hash carat at back-tick dollar dollar dash splat bang tick dollar underscore percent splat waka waka number four ampersand right-paren dot dot slash curly bracket tilde pipe splat splat crash
Found via google at: [ wu :: 1447(poetry) ]
Note that …
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By brian, on November 8th, 2005% Note: This post is a draft. It will be modified with more content and details as Eric & I find time to enhance this post.
Cingular’s iTunes phone? Ha… its $149 with a 2 year agreement. I’ve been with Cingular 10 months and already can’t stand them. My Nokia 6230 was free after rebates with a 1 year agreement. The ROKR has a 512MB memory card, yet is software-restricted to 100 audio tracks. As of this writing, I have a 2GB memory card in my 6230 with 270 songs. Although the user interface on the 6230 isn’t elegent with this many tracks, it serves its purpose for me quite well. …
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By erich, on November 5th, 2005% Interfacing the parallel port with FreeBSD to switch a relay (or 254). …
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By erich, on October 30th, 2005% When MSN started their DSL service they handed out the MSN 1000 modem. Turns out, it’s an SMC Barricade router and DSL modem. …
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By brian, on October 28th, 2005% I got my Nokia 6230b back today from the wonderful people at iUnlock. I must say, they provide an awesome service and I highly recommend them to anybody with a GSM phone.
I purchased the nokia 6230b firmware upgrade to version 5.50 (my phone ran Cingular’s 4.43) with decustomization. On Monday, October 24th, I shipped it out via UPS 2-day AM service. On Wednesday, I received an e-mail from iUnlock stating my phone was received, upgraded, tested, and shipped back via 2-day air with a tracking number. On Friday at Noon, I received my phone back. How easy was that. You can’t even get service like that from Cingular (who’s …
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By brian, on October 18th, 2005% I went to the misnamed “SuperMall” in Auburn, WA last night with my girlfriend to buy a gift for her friend and some supplies for us.
Of course, the night before, my girlfriend and I were looking at T-Mobile’s plans and the Nokia 6101 online. She needed a flip phone (as much as I personally hate their form factor) because she is somewhat hard on them and needed to better protect the keypad.
So as we’re walking by a store, one of the sales reps at a T-Mobile kiosk asks us “What service provider are you with?”. Taken in by my hatred towards Cingular, I tell him, “I’m with Cingular, …
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By brian, on October 14th, 2005% While we’re ranting about sucky things on this blog, such as movies, cheap parts, wireless routers, and inconsiderate neighbors, I’m going to rant on how much Cingular sucks!
The only reason I broke my contract with Verizon Wireless was because I had my eye on the Nokia 6230, which is only offered in the US by Cingular. I was also dissatisfied with Verizon due to their lack of good, non-crippled phones.
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By erich, on October 10th, 2005% Using cheap PIR motion sensors attached to a 1-wire network to create a security system …
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