Technology
Sharing an HP Printer via CUPS w/o a network printer driver
HP has several printers where they provide huge driver downloads of 75-350 megabytes but none of them come with a network INF installer (you can look in autorun.inf and see references to …
20 Questions
20 questions: AI style This is pretty freaky that a computer can guess what you are thinking… 20Q.net is an experiment in artificial intelligence. The program is very simple but its behavior is …
My Pick For Cost Reducing Noise Reducing Headphones
Aiwa HP-CN6 Noise-cancelling headphones. Get them at amazon.com for super cheap. I compared these to the $299 Bose and it was a very easy decision. There is not $270 more noise cancelling in the Bose …
Rss Feed For Traffic Conditions Data And Maps
The technical details of how to find your local traffic feed are at https://ejohn.org/blog/traffic-conditions-data/ It’s pretty easy to set up your own URL. Here’s one for Seattle that …
ZDNet's "apology" to Google
Gotta love brit humor! This is great tongue-in-cheek commentary at its best. The background: News.com UK published details about Google’s CEO using public information found on…Google (aka …
Drooling Over My 7mbps 892 Kbps Dsl Upgrade
broadband Speed Interpretation Just upgraded from 1.5mbps / 768kbps to 7mbps / 892kbps. Yum. 2005-07-19 21:32:27 EST: 4427 / 719 Your download speed : 4533441 bps, or 4427 kbps. A 553.3 KB/sec …
VIM as an XML Editor
07:00 A great HOWTO: Vim as XML Editor I’m not sure I’ll give up a GUI for XML editing, but you can do quite a lot with VIM that many GUI XML editors can’t.
Avoid Losing Web Form Text
Scribe, Mozilla Firefox Extension looks like a handy extension to add to Firefox. How many times have you lost a long textarea posting? No more typing in VIM or Notepad and then pasting into the web. …
Spam blocking update
So, like everyone, I get a LOT of spam. Over the past year (May 15 2004 - May 3 2005), I have received and processed a total of 120878 emails. Here is how the mail I received breaks down: notspam …
This website can read your mind
20Q.net Select the “Think in english” link to proceed in english. This is an automated 20 questions that is very good at guessing what you are thinking of. Haven’t seen this in some …