A few years ago I fell in love with Windows Terminal Services Server. Then I learned about the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) and fell in love with it even more because I could bring old computers to life by booting them over the network with a brand new,...
Belkin Desktop Phone for Skype
Last year I purchased the SMC WiFi Phone for Skype and was extremely disappointed. Haunted by it would probably be a better phrase. A reader of this blog by the name of Wayne gifted the Belkin phone to me. Thankfully so, because I was still needing a phone to use with...
Digital Stream DTX9950
In my best television announcer voice: "Digital TV has better picture, better sound and more channels!" Unless you've been living under a rock then you have probably heard that a million times by now. If you have been living under a rock then you need to check out the...
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography
I have been seeing a lot of articles lately about high dynamic range (HDR) photography. I've always been fascinated by it. I read through a couple of blog entries and decided that I should try it myself. In the past I have said that I couldn't do things like HDR due...
Mailplane for Gmail
Since I got this iBook G3 I've been primarily using it for communication (email, instant messaging) and multimedia (audio podcasts and my music collection). Unfortunately, the iBook doesn't have a great deal of power since it is running Tiger which is a bit more...
Basic photo enhancements with The GIMP
For a while now I have been using the trial version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. The trial expired and it's still a bit too much for me to pay for. I love Picasa but it doesn't have all the features that Lightroom spoiled me with while I was using it. Fortunately,...
SMC WiFi Phone for Skype (WSKP100)
The Reason For Purchasing A couple of years ago I had a no-contract cell phone and before then I had a pre-paid cell phone. I got rid of those in 2005. They were simply too expensive. Ever since then I've been using Skype, Gizmo or just using the house land-line to...
20" ViewSonic Optiquest Q20WB LCD Monitor
If you recall from the Taco HTML article I wrote back in June, I mentioned that my 3 year old Envision LCD (Envision EN7100) decided to kick the bucket. Ever since then, up until the 5th of October (earlier this month, for me) I had been using my backup CRT monitor. I...
Logitech Premium Stereo Headset
A month or so ago I was getting ready to call someone on Skype. For some reason I had my Logitech USB headset unplugged. I plugged it in and the volume was extremely loud. Everytime I would go into the volume control (in Windows) and bring the volume down it would...
e-GeForce MX 4000 on Fedora 7
Last night I decided to go ahead and try to get the official Nvidia drivers installed for my GPU on Fedora 7. I was hesitant to do this because normally whenever I try to do this I break something and wind up having to re-install the entire operating system because I...