http://beecherbowers.com Beecher Bowers .com Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:57:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick note for those who may be looking to try shoving their LG DVD/CD writer into an external USB enclosure. Chances are, it won't work. Symptoms include errors mentioning "disc at once" problems immediately after trying to burn the disc. I ran into this over the weekend, but the ... http://beecherbowers.com/2008/06/02/lg-dvd-writers-dont-like-external-usb-enclosures/ I like to code websites with a text editor to keep the code thin and retain more control over how things in the page act. I also have need of a good editor for perusing IIS logs. Recently, I needed to view and search through a 1.25GB IIS log and ... http://beecherbowers.com/2008/05/30/free-text-editor-thats-a-lot-more/ Before anyone gets upset, this article doesn't describe all computer sellers on eBay. I know there are some that are honest and occasionally just have a problem. I recently received a call from a lady whose son had purchased a computer on eBay for her and had it shipped to her ... http://beecherbowers.com/2008/05/26/be-careful-buying-computers-on-ebay/ I've only been planting a garden for a few years now, but we live in a rural area where deer like to get to my crops before I do. Sometimes tomato plants get chewed to the ground before they even get a chance to blossom. One of my relatives passed ... http://beecherbowers.com/2008/05/25/keep-deer-out-of-your-garden/ I sat in on a "webinar" (I REALLY hate that word) the other day for a very large company that was presenting its application virtualization product. The salesperson had told us he would even have an engineer on hand to answer questions we may have. Well, they did, but they ... http://beecherbowers.com/2008/05/19/never-send-an-engineer-to-do-a-salespersons-job/ Jesper Johansson left Microsoft in 2006 and has taken the lead in fixing a major Service Pack 3 problem for AMD users. A bug exists in XP SP3 that causes endless rebooting after SP3 is installed if you are using an AMD CPU and the Intel PPM driver is loaded. ... http://beecherbowers.com/2008/05/16/fix-windows-xp-sp3-amd-and-hp-reboot-bug/ Somehow the broadcast flag for several of NBC's television shows got activated this week. Revealing another problem with DRM, the unintentional activation caused problems for a lot of viewers who wanted to time-shift the shows for later viewing. Messages stating "Recording cancelled. [TV show] cannot be recorded. Restrictions set by ... http://beecherbowers.com/2008/05/15/nbc-broadcast-flag-reveals-another-problem-with-drm/ A little humor for Wednesday... The cardboard core is cheap.... but the tissue refills... http://beecherbowers.com/2008/05/14/if-bathroom-tissue-were-sold-like-razors/ Blackberry has just announced its latest phone, the Blackberry Bold.  The Bold retains the full keyboard and includes a few of the iphone-like curves. The screen is glossy like an iphone, but the device is smaller. PC World has an article with the news of the release, and a photo of ... http://beecherbowers.com/2008/05/12/blackberry-bold-beats-apple-to-3g/ It's estimated that by 2011, your heart could call for emergency services if it is suffering a heart attack. Your blood sugar dropping too low? No worries, help is already on the way. The technology involved works much like the bluetooth devices already in use for cell phones, and ... http://beecherbowers.com/2008/05/09/imagine-your-heart-dialing-911-in-the-event-of-a-heart-attack/