Tech Talk at ShieldsGroup

It looks like a big iPod Touch (no phone) the big iPhone version will be out later.

I was surprised at some of the choices Apple made:

• No camera so no video chat.
• No flash, it is suppose to be an easy way to access the internet and it doesn’t support flash?
• No USB port, it has no camera and then no way to get photos from a camera, oh wait a minute there is an adapter to give it a USB port. That is almost as bad, it takes an adapter to connect USB devices?
• Only 64GB, and no way to add memory cards, even basic netbooks come with 160GB
• No user swapable battery.
• All applications have to come from the Apple App store.
• It doesn’t multitask, it has a big powerfull CPU and it can’t multitask?
• No HDMI out, you get a cool video on it (that doesn’t require flash) and you can’t show it on your TV?
• The version which supports cellular access will be unlocked, but it will only have a GSM radio which in this country is used by AT&T and T-Mobile. The only thing is that their 3G data networks are on different frequencies.  The iPad only supports AT&T’s 3G frequency. If you use it on T-Mobile you will be stuck at 2G speeds.

The market has been telling everyone that smaller is better, you don’t need a desktop, a laptop is better. You don’t need a laptop, a netbook is better. You don’t need a netbook, a smart phone like the iPhone is better.  Now Apple says we were wrong, you don’t want a iPhone, the iPad is better?

~alacy

The tech guy at Dish was pretty clueless on how to reprogram my remote for my Television, so I Googled around and found this.

Works great!

If you want to do it manually, you could go here:

http://tech.dishnetwork.com/departmental_content/techportal/content/tech/remotes/TechRemo5.3Code.shtml

Recently my Firefox on my Linux box has been running slowly.

Then things became worse when I started it and it gave me a message that it couldn’t complete the install because something was wrong with install.rdf.

“Error message: install.rdf is not well formed or does not exist”

I read somewhere that I should rename my ~/.mozilla folder and run Firefox.

I did more than that.

1. I uninstalled Firefox with Synaptic
2. Then renamed ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla_delete_after_02012010.
3. Then I reinstalled Firefox and ran it.

Firefox ran fast and clean.

Reinstalling my plugins, it maintains good speed.

I think the install.rdf file was a corrupt update of noscript.