Category: Geeking

I decided to look into Google Video a bit, now that they are selling stuff. First things first, I looked into how the Google Video Player works for free files. (I’m a cheapskate.) It’s Google Engineering at it’s finest; the simplest thing that will work, and no simpler. When you click to see a movie…

I ran across this intriguing sentence in a GAO report on Los Alamos National Labs: LANL fabricates suites of sensors for Global Positioning System satellites that are used to monitor nuclear detonations. Interesting. Wonder what else GPS satellites do…

I want a Firefox extension that lets me select some text on a webpage, right click, and get that HTML in a box to edit. Once I edit it, I want the extension to compute the diff between my edited copy and the copy in the web page, find an address to send it to…

Info on Google’s proposal to the City of Mountain View to put in a WiFi network is publically available (490K PDF). There are some interesting things: It will be using mesh technology. There will be about 400 mesh nodes, and 3 uplinks to the Internet (which Google says will use fiber, as though the media…

If you have a phone that can download Java games, and you know how to make it go visit URL’s outside the walled garden your provider desperately wants to keep you locked inside, you can go to this URL: http://google.com/glm to get Google Local for Mobiles. It will let you do everything that Google Maps…

An ex-coworker made an interesting survey of HTTP headers. During which he found my own comments on apparent typos in HTTP headers. Hi Andrew! It’s good to see you are still hacking!

Apple released the Mighty Mouse today. Leave it to Apple to “innovate” themselves into making a zero button, four button mouse. Yes, they added some space-age alien technology to sense your “clicking” through the shell so that there would BE NO BUTTONS. Because, seriously, the fact that there are buttons on my mouse is the…

Some people have asked why I do not allow comments on my blog. The answer is that this is my space, and I want total control of what’s here. Fighting comment spam is a losing proposition, and I don’t want to be involved in it. I have trackbacks turned on, so if you are using…

A coworker of mine from when I was at Tellme has started a new blog to show and tell what he’s learning and thinking about network configuration management. In his most recent posting it turns out he’s found a paper written by a friend of mine from college! What a small world! This problem is…

I’m on Jabber as jra@nella.org. I’m running my own server, and supposedly other Jabber servers are supposed to be able to contact mine and send me messages. I’m not convinced it’s really working because my test case didn’t seem to do what I expected. So if you use Jabber and want to talk to me,…