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Entries from March 2004

Packet8 / FWD Announcement

March 29th, 2004 · Comments Off

Cool…
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Earlier today Packet8 formally announced that it is now interconnected with the Free World Dialup network. While the broadband IP interconnect has been in production for several weeks, it was nice for this to become announced a supported feature of…

[The Jeff Pulver Blog]

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Movin’

March 29th, 2004 · Comments Off

We are moving… No, not the family, just the website.  IF you experience any weirdness it could be related to our move.  As it ends up, we will have full control of a box instead of sharing one with a bunch of others. J  Postings will be light until we get the new stuff hashed [...]

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Packet8 / FWD Announcement

March 29th, 2004 · Comments Off

Cool…
<snip> 

Earlier today Packet8 formally announced that it is now interconnected with the Free World Dialup network. While the broadband IP interconnect has been in production for several weeks, it was nice for this to become announced a supported feature of…

[The Jeff Pulver Blog]

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Movin’

March 29th, 2004 · Comments Off

We are moving… No, not the family, just the website.  IF you experience any weirdness it could be related to our move.  As it ends up, we will have full control of a box instead of sharing one with a bunch of others. J  Postings will be light until we get the new stuff hashed [...]

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For Speed in Swimsuits, Add Bumps

March 22nd, 2004 · Comments Off

Um… Bumps??  This just sounded too funny NOT to post. J 

A new swimsuit technology increases, rather than decreases, drag to create a "tunnel" the wearer swims through.

[New York Times: Technology]

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Using the Windows Firewall INF File in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2

March 22nd, 2004 · Comments Off

I blog this so that I can find it later… I think quite a few folks will need to edit this before deploying in the enterprise. J 

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), now in Beta testing, includes significant enhancements to the Windows Firewall component (formerly known as the Internet Connection Firewall). Windows Firewall is [...]

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Lonestar

March 19th, 2004 · Comments Off

It is confirmed.  If you install the SP2 for Windows XP onto a TabletPC it will upgrade it to the Lonestar build which is supposed to have all kinds of neat features. J 

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TiVo Will Die

March 19th, 2004 · Comments Off

Boy this is a depressing topic.  I still remember Bill ranting and raving that I *needed* to get one of these devices.  After getting to look at one over at TechnoDaddy’s house (he caved under the pressure of Bill) I decided to cave too.  The world has never been the same.  Tivo has done so [...]

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It’s all about the bang

March 18th, 2004 · Comments Off

I was bashing (hee I made a pun) my head on the keyboard trying to figure out why my new server side include would not work.  Turns out I had forgotten the !.  Once I added that to the MT template and changed the file to be .shtml instead of just .html all worked wonderfully!!!.
 
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Windows XP SP2 possible little known fact

March 18th, 2004 · Comments Off

I know there is a bunch of news out there about the new RC1 of XP SP2 but I found something on a forum that you might find interesting.
 
If you install the new SP on a Tablet PC it will update it to “Lonestar”, which is what MS is calling the soon-to-be-released update for Tablet [...]

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