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  • euicho 10:23 pm on 2/27/2006 Permalink | Reply  

    Put AIM, MSN, and Yahoo on Google Talk! 

    I got a newsletter from BigBlueBall last month about putting AIM, MSN, and Yahoo on Google Talk. It sounded cool as heck, but I hadn’t gotten around to trying it until today.

    It was a really straight-forward process, and only took about 10 minutes. You should definately try it out, because its just plain rad to chat with everyone via Google Talk!

    BTW: Even if you don’t do this, you should consider using Google Talk anyway, especially if you want free long-distance calls via computer (think Skype, but easier and googley).

     

    • Johnny B 11:17 pm on 3/11/2006 Permalink

      so has Trillian become more outdated now?

      i’m slow with the news nowadays….

  • euicho 3:03 pm on 12/16/2005 Permalink | Reply
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    Harry Potter iPod 

     

    Call me whatever you want to, but I love the Harry Potter series, and I want this iPod!

    Mind you I don’t want the extra $249.00 of Complete Harry Potter Series audio that acompanies it, I already have all the audiobooks, and have no need for $249 of duplicate audio. I do, however, want that laser-etched hogwarts crest. Sure, sure I could get 2 lines of 27-letters each laser engraved text for free, but getting anything written on it would be nowhere near as cool as the crest on this baby. Not to say I’d turn down a new iPod, as mine doesn’t hold all of my music, and has some interesting quirks now and again like always playing the 2nd song in the list of whatever i click on to play, but if it could be bought without the audio books, I’d get this one.

     
     

    • Doody 5:28 am on 12/17/2005 Permalink

      So it’s 249.00 more than an Ipod without it? The audio costs 249.00 dollars?

    • Jesse 5:12 pm on 12/19/2005 Permalink

      Oh that is so cool. I want one so I can shove it up my ass!

    • Nyrath the nearly wise 5:53 pm on 12/19/2005 Permalink

    • euicho 8:01 pm on 12/22/2005 Permalink

      Ah thanks for the links, there is hope!
      You know, as “obsessed” as Amme claims I am with Harry Potter, I’ve never even thought of which house I’d be placed in…

    • Nyrath the nearly wise 12:43 pm on 12/25/2005 Permalink

      The last I saw, Gryffindor was for people who were couragous, Hufflepud was for the well-meaning dufus, Slytherin was for those who believe that the ends justify the means, and Ravensclaw was for the intellectuals with thick glasses.

    • euicho 4:19 am on 1/1/2006 Permalink

      Yeah, it’s always a toss up between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. I don’t have the ego to proclaim myself couragous, but at the same time I mix intellectualism with crazy outdoor antics.

      Also, I’ve been away from the internet till just now, but I’ll email you very soon about my AMAZING gifts! I did get my SS fine in the mail :)!!!

  • euicho 12:35 pm on 10/13/2005 Permalink | Reply
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    Video iPod 

     

    Look. —>

    Did you just cry out in unbridled joy and astonishment? Did the people around you all turn and stare?
    I did. From my mouth flew an undecipherable gibberish that could only be described as “colloquial”.

    Yes me boys, ’tis an iPod. Aye, she plays video. We knew it may come soon, but not this soon. I was all set to write an in-depth, lengthy run-down on big-eyed, petite vixen, but one of my favorites, Webfroot, beat me to it.

    In that right, you really should read about it there. And I will give but a few facts to whet your appetite:

    • It comes in 30GB and 60GB models
    • It can still hold music, album art, and photos, as well as 150 hrs video (60GB model)
    • It has a big ole’ 2.5-inch display
    • It has 5 more hours battery life than the 4th Gen
    • It comes in black, sans Bonno (yes!)
    • The 30GB is 45% thinner than the 4thGen and the 60GB is 10% thinner than the 20GB 4th Gen!
     
     

    • Johnny B 6:28 pm on 10/14/2005 Permalink

      wow.
      Too bad I still don’t have hundreds of dollars to spend on it.

    • Doody 11:15 pm on 10/16/2005 Permalink

      Neither do I. I spent it all on visiting :)

    • euicho 9:42 pm on 10/17/2005 Permalink

      Johnny: But you spend hundreds of dollars on music equipment ;P

      Doody: lol yeah taking vacations will do that to ya, but wasn’t it worth it to see your friends? j/k

    • Doody 10:30 pm on 10/17/2005 Permalink

      Of course man, of course.

    • Doody 10:30 pm on 10/17/2005 Permalink

      P.S. You still have to show me/help me set up my section of the site in blog format if ever you get the chance. No rush though, I know you are busy.

    • Convicted Felon 10:25 am on 10/20/2005 Permalink

      Ipod: You’re dead, you’re all dead!
      Other Mp3 players: Oh good, he thinks we’re zombies. Now he’ll leave us alone.

    • Rhymes with tree covered in pee 5:17 pm on 10/23/2005 Permalink

      there once was a dog who shat on a board
      man found this and said ‘wonderful, this is amazing’
      he put it in a pretty box and sold it for $5
      it worked so well he found the dog and put more boards under it
      he collected all the shat boards and sold those too in pretty boxes
      more and more people wanted them, so he got help
      more people, more boxes, more dogs, more shat
      he sold them for $20 now and sold hundreds
      soon thousands, tens and hundred thousands
      soon the boxes, boards and shats got smaller
      but still the price went up, to even $50!
      and the people stopped buying
      they had had enough
      too much shat for them
      the man’s workers left, so did all the dogs
      he had spent all the money, there was nothing left
      nothing but the last box the last board with shat
      he cried over that box
      and clung to it until he could cling no longer
      it was all he had, all he had ever had

      let us not forget that man

    • euicho 5:16 pm on 10/25/2005 Permalink

      Wow.

  • euicho 2:05 pm on 6/28/2005 Permalink
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    Google Earth 

     

    Welcome to Google Earth.
    Google Earth is a 3D globe on your pc. It allows you to type in any address, or coordinates, and it zooms from space down to the address. On my PC (and 4Mbps cable connection) it takes several seconds for the image to come into focus as it streams the data from Google’s vast satellite image aquisitions, but it’s well worth it when done, especially in metropolitan areas where the resolutions allow you to make out the models of some cars on the streets (sort-of…).
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    • Jalbey 9:30 am on 6/30/2005 Permalink

      I love how you can get down to street level and “drive” around.

    • euicho 8:15 pm on 6/30/2005 Permalink

      me tooo!

  • euicho 2:17 pm on 6/11/2005 Permalink
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    Systm Episode 2 

    Just a quick update:

    Systm Episode 2 – Build your own MythTV box is out now!

    Bittorrent links for Xvid, Windows Media, Theora, and h.264 quicktime 7 versions are available at systm.org

     

  • euicho 1:01 am on 6/7/2005 Permalink
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    Apple Switches to Intel 

    That’s right. Apple is doing some switching of their own, and it is a big one. By next year, Apple will begin moving from IBM’s PowerPC to Intel’s x86 architecture, and finish the move in 2007.

    What may be even more stunning (at least it was to me) is the news that Apple has been building an x86 version of OS X with each PPC release they’ve done!
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  • euicho 1:53 am on 5/24/2005 Permalink
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    Systm 1 / Broken 4 

    For those of you who arn’t subscribed to the The Broken newsletter, Systm, from the creators of The Broken, went up at 8pm PST tonight. You can download torrents of it at systm.org. I’m in the process of downloading it now and am very excited!

    As stated in the newsletter, “While Systm is a general interest HOW-TO show, thebroken will continue to have 40′z and hacking”. Thats good news, for though I welcome any show by Kevin Rose, I would hate to see The Broken go the way of Call For Help.
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    • Doody 2:00 am on 5/26/2005 Permalink

      Ah the rave… That was an interesting night. But I will always have fond memories of the rave that never was.

    • Jalbey 9:30 am on 5/26/2005 Permalink

      “SWAN DIVE!”…”Ok back flip”…

      Ahh memories…I will cherish them for as long as I live, just wish I had a video tape of that night, you know just in case you ever become president.

    • euicho 1:14 am on 5/27/2005 Permalink

      lol, I’m glad you don’t!

    • Doody 1:38 am on 6/1/2005 Permalink

      LOL. “Our president elect is seen here being dragged behind a lawn tractor through the mud on nothing but an old TV tray.”

    • Jalbey 2:13 pm on 6/1/2005 Permalink

      NOW That I could do…or “As you can see in this video clip our President is now snorting a line of donut in a crowded high school cafeteria…what a man”

      Thinking back on all the crap we had you do or you did on your own, how are you still alive?

    • euicho 1:03 am on 6/3/2005 Permalink

      Ha. Ha. (^_-)

      But for the grace of god, my sons… but for the grace of god.

  • euicho 1:18 pm on 3/2/2005 Permalink
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    Resize your Flickr Photos 

    This one is for all you Flickr users:

    If you only have a basic account, do NOT upload full-sized pics. You have a 10MB of bandwidth limit per month and will use it up FAST! I did my first month.
    Instead, resize your pictures to 510 by 383 (510×383), which is the size they will be displayed at anyway, since users cannot zoom your pics if you have a basic account. This will allow you dozens upon dozens of more pics per month.
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  • euicho 2:30 pm on 2/17/2005 Permalink  

    Date of Human Origin Pushed Back 

    In 1967 Paleontologist Richard Leakey found fossils near Ethiopia’s Omo River and estimated them to be 130,000 years old. Australian geologist Ian McDougal went to the Omo area several times between 1999 and 2003, and obtained more parts of “Omo1″ as well as animal fossils and stone tools.

    The expeditionary team studied the elder layers of river sediment in which the fossils were found and latest analysis concludes the fossils are far older than previously estimated, and are very close to a layer of volcanic ash laid down 196,000 years ago.

    Our race’s age has just been discoverd to be 50,000 years older than previous estimates had concluded!
    (http://www.realestategates.com/news).

     

  • euicho 8:54 pm on 2/14/2005 Permalink
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    Two Tasty New Google Offerings 

    If you don’t regularly check Google Labs, you should. They have all kinds of new technology and they are always adding more.
    The two most recent are Google Maps and Google Video.
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  • euicho 2:43 pm on 1/10/2005 Permalink
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    Warblogging 

    This post is an euicho.com first, as it is my first mobile post. I took my 233MHz (gah! i know, heh) thinkpad 770 and my Zonet ZEW2500P 802.11g card out wardriving today while going to UMO and, by the time I had left the campus, I’d hit a total of 63 open connections.

    I had absolutely NO idea that this many people actually used wireless networking up in Maine. I havn’t even gone around half of campus yet either. The best part, though, is that I can hit 4 networks from my apartment including the hospital across the street that has a wicked fast connection. As I drive around Bangor, every few seconds Netstumbler squawks at me, detecting another MAC.

    This is too fun for words. Now I just wish I had a cheap GPS unit to plot the locations automatically with netstumbler!

     

    • Doody 4:58 am on 1/22/2005 Permalink

      I think that Rand-McNally made a really cheap GPS unit that came with mapping software. It was USB driven if I recally correctly. Don’t quote me on any of this though, I can’t remember for sure.

    • Your Blog 2:00 am on 1/23/2005 Permalink

      Don’t forget about me
      I miss you

    • euicho 3:47 pm on 1/23/2005 Permalink

      lol! Ok bloggy, I’ll update you tonight. (^_-)

      And doody, I’ll definately check that out!

    • euicho 3:47 pm on 1/23/2005 Permalink

      lol! Ok bloggy, I’ll update you tonight. (^_-)

      And doody, I’ll definately check that out!

  • euicho 2:36 pm on 1/7/2005 Permalink
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    Piracy In My Generation 

    Ever since I was a young child I have been fascinated by the pirates of old. Though most were ruthless, savage men (and women!), there is something adventurous and aluring about the free, lawlessness of it all. Though the days of rigging and ballast have past, no pay and piracy as a whole has never really died.
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  • euicho 3:49 pm on 12/19/2004 Permalink  

    SuprNova.org goes down 

    This morning, like every other morning, I woke up with my head full of things I hadn’t seen/heard/played that I wanted to try to find bittorrents for. Naturally, I went to my favorite BT search site, the most extensive, the ONLY BT search site in my opinion: SuprNova.org.
    The *tick-tack**tick-tack**tick-tack* of fingers across the keyboard was interrupted by a pause, a whimper, then sobbing…
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    • Jalbey 11:53 am on 12/20/2004 Permalink

      A SAD DAY FOR SURE!!! I remember telling you about that place, I fail to remember if you heard about before me or not but, damn it was fun while it lasted!

    • euicho 8:23 pm on 12/20/2004 Permalink

      nope, you were the first I’d heard about it! heh.

    • jason b 12:17 am on 12/21/2004 Permalink

      As well as torrentbit bit the dust the same day the story was on slash dot.

    • Your Site 10:15 pm on 12/27/2004 Permalink

      Update me please :-D

    • jalbey 4:00 pm on 12/28/2004 Permalink

      BTW http://www.bi-torrent.com/ is a mirror to SuprNova, it has everything that SuprNova had/would have currently.

    • euicho 10:36 pm on 12/28/2004 Permalink

      hah *DOH* I neglected to realize that, heh. BTW, the google thing does work pretty dang well

  • euicho 3:59 am on 12/18/2004 Permalink  

    BPL is bad? 

    Apparently I’m out of the loop. I thought Broadband over Power Lines was a great idea to reach lots of people that no other infrastructure has, but I guess I’ll wait for Fiber to the Home…

    via WBCQ

    Internationally, BPL has been tested and halted because of massive radio frequency interference in Japan, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Finland, Austria, the Netherlands and other countries. The Austrian Red Cross reported that during an exercise in May 2003, communications were “massively disturbed” by BPL, with intereference levels exceeding the limit by a factor of 10,000. Dietland Hansen, the external chairman of the advisory group on BPL to RegTP, Germany’s FCC equivalent, noted, “it suffers the enormous risk of uncontrolled interference to everyone”. During test trials of BPL in Britain and Japan, Mr Hansen stated that interference was so strong that they pulled the plug on BPL.

     

  • euicho 2:38 pm on 12/2/2004 Permalink
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    Widgets for the Poor Masses 

    A few days ago I found out that the wonderful people at Pixoria have released Konfabulator 1.8.1, for Mac & PC!say I was exstatic and nearly broke my left mouse button clicking on the download link.
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    • Doody 4:17 am on 12/4/2004 Permalink

      You are gonna have to fill me in here. I am illiterate and have no idea what a widget is. I feel dumb.

    • Jalbey 5:02 pm on 12/4/2004 Permalink

      Basicaly it is a small program (plug-in) for whatever you want it to be. It can display anything dynamicaly (based on user settings, program settings, or a data stream from the internet). Or in other words it is an awesome little thing that sits on your desktop and does cool things with cool graphics ;). The true meaning “An object on a Panther (Mac OSX) screen. Some widgets are used to interact with an application, while others are for display only.”

    • Euicho 5:28 pm on 12/4/2004 Permalink

      thanks for takin that one jalb, and very well said (^_^) !
      look here to see my desktop and some widgets I have (tv scraper, weather, what to do, etc.) Everything on the extreme right of the screen, in that whole column from the “Fark” viewer to the date/time box, is a widget, though you can place them anywhere you want.

    • Doody 6:37 am on 12/5/2004 Permalink

      Cool, they sound and look kinda interesting. Do I have to download the Konfabulator first?

    • Euicho 6:11 pm on 12/5/2004 Permalink

      yep you just download it, it comes with some already, and you can d/l more if you want.

    • KevinMichael Hamm 12:55 am on 12/9/2004 Permalink

      Well, I’ll just give you the bits you missed. Yes, the idea is good, it’s the implementation that sucks. Most widgets, and in the case of what I installed, all widgets, had memory leaks. Not small memory leaks, but HUGE memory leaks. And the widgets weren’t like the system clock, taking up nothing for processor time, they were full-fledged programs, in some cases taking up more memory while taking up only slightly less desktop space. So on a mac, where you can command-h everything and hide them, and they didn’t add enough functionality to justify the cut to my processor speed. Especially on the poor G5 as it renders out 24 hours of video (notporn)… But, of course, Tiger is coming, and the widgets in Tiger are run by Dashboard, so rather than a huge and buggy java engine that takes up more space, the OS will be able to do the work in its background. Oh, and they will be built on web standards, so basically you get a full-transparency layer the size you choose (up to the screen real estate) that you can manipulate in fantastic ways. CSS and XHTML will work for them, you don’t have to do any java programming or javascripting. That’ll be good.

  • euicho 11:16 pm on 11/22/2004 Permalink  

    GET FIREFOX! 

    Oh yeah, I just wanted to remind everyone that my site looks way better in Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla, or Opera, than it does in Internet Explorer. Plus, you all should know by now that you should be using Firefox. Its better, safer, more secure, and is web-standards complient. That means that when I do pretty things like make the comments section of my site have mouse-over blue backgrounds, or give the site dead-sexy link descriptions when you put your mouse over them, it actually shows it. IE is not standards complient, and not safe to use if you do any kind of secure transactions from typing your email address to a password to a SSN to online banking. It also has an amazing pop-up blocker, way better than the one Microsoft belatedly added to IE. I have yet to ever get a single pop-up in the past 1+ years I’ve been using it. Go to the link above for a full list of features, and a download. Its been chosen over IE by Forbes, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. So please wake up and give it a try. Even if it seems unfamiliar, it is very intuitive, and once you get hooked on tabbed browsing, opening multiple pages one screen, you will never ever go back.

     

    • B. Rintoul 12:21 pm on 11/23/2004 Permalink

      CHeck out my extension called LookAhead. You might like it – it opens multiple tabs with Google search results. Give it a shot!

    • Euicho 12:25 pm on 11/23/2004 Permalink

      Heh, i’m not sure if this is comment spam but it is a legitimate Firefox Extension on mozdev.org

    • B. Rintoul 12:32 pm on 11/23/2004 Permalink

      No, not comment spam! Use PubSub, too… It’s pretty darn cool!

    • jalbey 9:07 pm on 11/23/2004 Permalink

      “Take Back The Web” just like it says on the back of the shirt I am wearing. ;-)

    • Euicho 11:21 pm on 11/23/2004 Permalink

      Hell yeah!

  • euicho 10:32 am on 10/27/2004 Permalink
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    Yet Another Incarnation 

    iPod photo
     

    You knew it would come some day, now here it is.
    a color iPod, dubbed the iPod Photo.
    This would come in very handy photo enthusiasts such as myself if one coupled it with a Belkin Media Reader or similar card reader and a digital camera. Though I’ just want to upgrade to a 4th Gen with a clickwheel.

    Update: Kevin, my Apple instigator has informed me that while transfering photos from a memory card to the iPod photo works, it won’t display them on its screen, or even have access to them, until you synch with a computer to resize and store thumbnails to view on the iPod. bummer!

     
     

  • euicho 12:22 pm on 10/21/2004 Permalink  

    Stop using passwords of any kind 

    Nyrath sent me a link to this must-read. Its called Why you shouldn’t be using passwords of any kind on your Windows networks, and details why all windows networks should switch to pass-Phrases. I’m starting immediately.

    Fact: Did you know that Windows 2000 based operating systems support pass-PHRASES of up to 127 characters including spaces, and unicode characters like this… act: Did you know that even the most effecient form of password cracking (pre-computation using Sarca rainbow tables) breaks down and becomes infeasible for most attackers at around 10 characters (I’ve seen the math to prove it) and at 14 characters or more Excel can’t even display a number big enough to show how long it would take to pre-compute / look-up a 14 character password (so I’m assuming this would safely rule out dedicated government agencies with unlimitted hardware budgets ).

     

    • Anonymous 9:45 am on 10/26/2004 Permalink

      10 characters, 10^10 different combinations,
      10,000,000,000 possible passwords. A P4 1.6Ghz processor will crank out about 1955 Flops, So with 10 billion operations it would take about 5 million seconds or 60 days, so how is that impossible? One of the US governments most powerful processors can pull off 13,600,000,000,000 calculations per second and would crack a ten digit password in .0007s.

    • euicho 5:26 pm on 10/26/2004 Permalink

      true it is not impossible, but as the article says, its “infeasible” due to the fact that one should change their password every month or sooner, and many companies, including the one I work for, do indeed have that policy. As for government agencies, well, lets just hope they arn’t trying to access my data, lol.

  • euicho 10:37 am on 8/20/2004 Permalink
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    Whole messa links 

    Well, I’m going back down to Bangor to finish moving into our apartment. I’ll be away for a few days. You know what that means, right? Linkblog time (^_^) :

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    • Doody 3:36 am on 8/22/2004 Permalink

      thanks for finding the site tommy, enjoy your time in BGR…

    • jenni 9:59 pm on 8/24/2004 Permalink

      DUDE. i posted in your journal a while back saying COME OVER TO MY PAGE. lol and NOW you came? hahaha
      took a while ;) been awhile since we last talked. whats new ??

    • euicho 10:16 am on 8/25/2004 Permalink

      oh, woops heh. i have a really bad memory.
      not much. Moving into my apartment with Amme! Its super sweet. I can’t wait until I get to cuddle with her every night (^_^)
      It’s also coming up on 3yrs and 9mos for her and I. I can’t believe we’ve been together for this long. I love it.
      So you have a new boyfriend huh? Hows that goin?

  • euicho 10:31 am on 8/20/2004 Permalink
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    Filesharing software ruled Legal in US 

    w00t! The EFF won it’s court case. Decentralized filesharing software is now legal in the US.
    Webfroot has a great list of resources on it.

     

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