VNC Video Card
I have a server running RedHat 9, that I do not keep a monitor or keyboard connected to. I want to upgrade it to Fedora Core 2, but it is such a hassle, having to connect it to a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
I would love to see someone make a "network video card". This would be a video card that does not actually connect to a monitor. It would actually have a ethernet port. Instead of rendering the video to VGA it would render it to VNC. Then anyone with a VNC client could look at the computer "screen". Also, I was thinking that this video card would have either a USB cable or a PS/2 mouse and keyboard out, so the clients could control the computer. This solution would allow remote controlling of all features, including BIOS settings.
SkiFi 2
As I am sure most TiVo users have experienced, I have wanted to replay things other than TV. When driving in the car and you miss something on the radio, I want the ability to replay. Delfi, as reported in Engadget, has come out with a new version of the SkiFi that solves some of these problems.
The SkiFi 2 has some minor tweaks, but the most interesting change to be is that they added a 30-minute buffer. Son now it willbe possible to pause and rewind into the buffer.
Growl
Growl is a great new application service that allows any Mac OS X application to present notifications in a unified manor. This allows notifications for iChat, Mail, iTunes and other applications to present a unified notification. So now instead of having some applications bounce their dock icons, some opening windows, and others putting badges on the doc icon, there can be an integrated notification system.
WhoLinksToMe.com
WhoLinksToMe.com is a very simple service that will determine what webpages link to a given host. What it does is automates searching on Google ( link:www.yourdomain.com query) , Yahoo! and MSN with (linkdomain:www.yourdomain.com), and then puts it on a web page.
Basestation with built-in hard drive
Engadget has a post that describes a new 802.11g wireless access point and router that also has a built in 160Gb hard drive. I am not sure what protocols this supports, but I am assuming that it will suport SMB
iPod Photo
Now I actually am really interested in buying a iPod. The 60Gb iPod Photo has enough space to hold all of our 40+ Gb of music, as well as all of our photos.
Removed Blogsnob
I have noticed that BlogSnob has started to put adds for commercial products/companies in thier listings. When I signed up with BlogSnob, it was meant for advertizing other blogs. I don’t like that they just changed the types of ads, but even if they did, I should get some of the money that they get.
Script to inventory computers on network
Macosxhints has a post that describes a script that will list the computer on a network. It uses the arp cache to get the list of computers on the network. It also will map the MAC Address to manufacturer for each device.
Since it uses the arp cache, the post has instructions on quickly access each machine on the network to populate the arp cache.
New Product Idea
Imagine you are on a long road trip, going 60 or 70 on the freeway, and your kids (2 years and 6 weeks) have finally fallen asleep. And it is even during their nap time, so they should be rested in a couple of hours. You and your wife can now listen to the CDs of your choice. But then suddenly traffic comes to a stop… And they wake up, not getting enough sleep
I think that this product will solve this problem:
Navigation in Honda Odyssey
This weekend was our first chance to have a long trip in the Odyssey. I though that the navigation system was great, and was really useful. There were a few bugs/limitations that I hope get resolved in a future release of the software:
