300GB 2.5" drive

Fujitsu has announced a 2.5-inch 300GB drive.  With this drive, I would install Parallels with Windows XP, and not have to carry around two laptops.

[via Gizmodo]

"Dangers" of Coca-Cola

Since my body has forced me to stop drinking soda, the information on this page doesn't bother me that much.  But I never realized the affects of cola on the body.  But drinking soda, is probably the reason that I can't do it any more.

[via Gizmodo]

Harmony Remote problems

Now that the Series3 is working, I wanted to configure my Harmony remote to control the new setup.  While trying to do this, I had a couple of problems.

There is a new update to the Harmony Remote software.  When the software first started up, a dialog appeared with options to install the update or quit.  Every time that I installed the update, the software would crash.  I eventually found out that the problem was that the Harmony Remote software was not unpacking the update itself, but using the configured helper application. (The Unarchiver).  Once I deleted this app, the update worked correctly.

Comcast video

This morning two Comcast technicians came over to look at the problem that we were having with the new cable video install.  It turns out the problem was that when we had our cable modem installed, the installer put a filter on our line.  This was causing the CableCards and the Motorola DVR to not be able to get the channel list.

Once the filter was removed, everything worked.

setting up SSH public/private keys

This page has some simple instructions for setting up a ssh public/private key pair.

South Park Season 10 Season Pass

When season 10 of South Park started, I purchased the Season Pass from the iTunes Store.  Then when Comedy Central resumed South Park from its mid season break, the Season Pass didn't resume.  Then when I looked at the entry in the iTunes Music Store, it listed a new 10B season South Park.  I didn't feel like paying for this new season, especially since I thought I originally payed for the whole season.

Last week, I got this email from Apple.  It seems that a lot of people were upset, so they gave the 10B season to anyone who purchased 10A.  I think that this is a great for public relations.

g4me

Now that we are using Google Apps for Your Domain for our email, I have been looking at all of the little tools that are available for the various Google products.  I tried the Gmail Dashboard Widget, but I wasn't able to get it to work with the email for our domain, even though it works with my gmail account.

g4me is a third party Dashboard widget that will display new mail for an account in your domain.