November 2003 Archives

Murphy's Law was in full bloom recently when our home PC's hard drive started to fail and my server's drive just locked up cold one day. Thus began the great computer fix-up of 2003 for the Cantoni household. Step One: New hard drive storage for the server.... (more)

I've been meaning to do more playing with Bluetooth capabilities of my Palm Tungsten T3 (other than just connecting to another Palm device), so I finally bought a Belkin F8T001 USB Bluetooth adapter (available on Buy.com for about $40 with free shipping). Installing the Belkin software on my Win2000 system was straightforward, as was pairing my device with the desktop.... (more)

Google recently launched a beta of the Google Deskbar which "enables you to search with Google from any application without lifting your fingers from the keyboard." This type of utility is quite useful and allows you to quickly do a search without first bringing up a browser window. In fact, there is already an excellent tool that does this: Dave's... (more)

From Gizmodo, I learned about Reiter's Camera Phone Report which is a weblog dedicated to wireless digital photography. Among his recent posts is one about companies forcing handset vendors to remove cameras in phones due to security concerns.... (more)

I continue to get a fair number of web server "404 Not Found" errors on my site (caused by users requesting documents that aren't found). I strive to minimize such errors when making changes to the site, so normally I read through the server logs to find anything that needs to be fixed. To make this process easier, I recently... (more)