Entries Tagged as 'technology'

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Thinking about the TiVoHD

Well, as my last two posts implied, I own a TiVo again.  In fact, I own a TiVoHD.  Pay per view on the TiVo works through Amazon, so they have the best price.  I’ve been playing with it for 2 days now and I have some thoughts, comments, and a small review.
The TiVoHD is a [...]

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Reading private Google Calendars in Evolution

Do not try this. It’s not a good idea. I don’t endorse it.
That said, I have a Google Calendar that I want to view in Evolution (if just for the nice reminders) but I don’t want to make public, and I can’t use the private URL. I need Evolution to authenticate to [...]

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

HOWTO: Creating An Automated Staging Server using CVS

It’s easy to create an automated staging server for content that doesn’t need to be compiled (like most web content.) The trick is that CVS has a very flexible logging system. All you need to do is have your CVS server send an email on each check in and have the staging server [...]

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Fixing the Evolution Composer

Back when I worked for Ximian a common complaint we heard was that Evolution wasn’t good for sending formatted text because it always word wrapped it causing lots of errors.  This was pretty frustrating because it wasn’t true, but since we heard it all the time, it was obviously too confusing.  Here’s the dialog.  Can [...]

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

FiOS and High Definition Television

For more than a year now, I’ve had a small High Definition Television, but for many reasons (okay mostly cheapness) only been able to use it to display standard cable. Well, that changed a few days ago when Verizon FiOS TV became available in my area. We got it just before the rate [...]