Mac OSX drivers appear in the drop down on Dell's notebook site
Buffistechnology 2: You Made Her So She Growls?
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Also sometime you can a shared cell phone plan (too phones) for less than the cost of a land line. Of course then you have the problem with dropped calls. Got my Mom a Virgin pay as you go phone for her trip to NY. High quality connections as long as they last, but they do seem to drop out occasionally.
Huh.
There's a new version of TiVo Desktop available today. It's version 2.3 (for Windows). And it does some nifty new tricks.
If you have an iPod, a PSP, a Treo, or other portable video device you'll want to check it out. Not only can you tell it to automatically transfer new recordings of your favorite shows to your PC, with a small upgrade it'll also convert those files automatically to play back on your favorite portable device.
The upgrade? While TiVo Desktop 2.3 is free (as always), and the automatic transferring of programs to the PC is also free, the ability to convert those recording for portables has a small cost. It's $24.95 to unlock that ability (there's stuff in there that we have to license, and we can't give that away to everyone for free). But it's a one time fee...you pay once, and you can convert your recordings for playback on your portable automatically, every time they're transfered.
But is there TiVo to Go for the Mac? No. Of course not. t blows raspberry at TiVo
anyone wanting a chuckle, run a traceroute on ThePirateBay.org :)
The traceroute is timing out for me, but I do know that if you go to their home page, the title of the browser window is now "The Phoenix Bay."
(And the traceroute finally worked. Heh.)
How do you run a traceroute?
From the command line, type "tracert ThePirateBay.org", or on Linux or a Mac, "traceroute ThePirateBay.org".
The punchline can also be discovered by typing "nslookup 83.140.176.146".
In Windows, open a DOS window and type 'tracert thepiratebay.org' or whatever.
In Linux, Unix and OS X, open a terminal window and do the same, except I think you use 'traceroute' instead.
eta: x-post. I shoulda' known it took me way too long to find that out....
Interesting article about VoIP services.
The BBB says it has collected 1088 complaints against Vonage (which operates the largest Net phone service, with 1.6 million customers in the United States and Canada) in the past 12 months. During the same time period, Verizon fielded 1039 complaints filed against its landline service--though it manages 48.8 million phone lines nationwide. Another VoIP provider, BroadVoice, is the eighth-most-complained-about company in eastern Massachusetts, Maine, and Vermont, according to the BBB office serving those areas.