4 people, 2 Geek Squad Agents and 2 Comcast “technicians”, on site and with full access to the wireless router, were unable to figure out how to connect my uncle’s new Internet TV to his home network!!! LOL.
I got it going in less than 10 minutes.
How come there are reality show on TV about all kinds of boring topics, but there aren’t any shows about coding or programmers?!
Every few days I read about a new Apple store locations. That’s great, but seeing Apple kiosks in Best Buy and Target, in my opinion is overdoing it. The exclusivity and having to go to an Apple store is what I enjoy. I fear all of these new store-in-store and kiosks distribution and sales model is going to oversaturate the market and hurt the Apple brand.
Google Apps cloud
I have decided to conduct an experiment on my website TitanFusion.net. A very involved experiment. I am going to see how many aspects TitanFusion.net: email, blogs, sub-sites, files, feeds, exc. can be hosted and served by Google services, be they independent or part of Google Apps. I have already been using Google Apps Mail and Feedburner for years. Why not commit to some of the other available services. There have number of good improvements.
I have had TitanFusion.net for over a decade now and over the years it has seen number of changes, both design and features. It is time again for more changes. I am aware that by moving my site and almost every web aspect of it to Google group of services comes with number of limitations. Most discouraging of which is knowing that I will not have a hard copy of the site and its content. Knowing that I will not be able to easily, if at all, grab a copy of the site as a whole and upload it to another server within mere minutes to a different server makes me think more than twice if I should event commit to undertake this project. If I decide to make the movie, it will affect the amount and type of content I end up publishing on.
But, reflecting on the last couple years, I have simply not made very many changes nor published much content to begin with! I have concentrated mostly on work at Innovadix, and any new content on TitanFusion.net has been in the form of short blurbs on the Tzanov’s Tweets blog.
My first step will be to port as much of the site’s data to Google services as possible. Then test to make sure everything functions normal. I will also have to either create new templates or change existing ones to be compatible with the Google platform, and at the same time be unique to Titan Fusion. In addition, I will have to come up with some sort of a data backup/replication of any content and media I publish on Google.
If everything looks and feels the way I want it, I commit to the change.
BUT, only till next time I feel like gutting out TitanFusion.net!
Here is another golden statement from my son. Today, on the way to my wife’s parents, Alexandar was making lots of noise in the car with his milk cup by banking it agains his seat. After Amanda counted him out she took his cup, at which point he started to cry and complain. I told him that he needs to “open his ears and start listening”.
Alexandar’s response – “I don’t want to open my ears. That’s dangerous.”.
After such statement it is kind of hard to carry on with trying to teach!
It is nice to see how one’s child is developing and how new thought processes are emerging. My son, Alexandar, last night demonstrated forward thinking and logic.
My son did not have dinner with us last night, because he ate not too long before the rest of us had dinner. So, during dinner he was up in his room plaining with his wooden trains. Just about when dinner was over he came down to ask us to come up to his room and play with him and the trains. But, during dinner our daughter had made a mess with her food. So, while she was getting the food cleaned off of her, my wife ask him to pick up some of the food off of the floor. As he took one glance at it, he stated, while walk away, “I am not picking up this. It’s messy. I am playing with my trains and I will have to wash my hands!”.
It was nice to see him reason for why he was refusing to do something, as well as prioritize what’s important to him.
I am very excited to announce the new Tzanov Family Newsletter. We started it as a way to offer friends, family and you, our reader, a way to not only receive regular updates, but to also provide an addition communications channel. The content, you will find in the newsletter, will range from family announcements about happenings and upcoming events to the most recent blog updates. The newsletter will also server as a “mail blog”. By that I mean there will be mailings which will have blog like content, but the articles will not be posted on any of the blogs. This content will be only for the members of the mailing list.
Newsletter Content Groups
The content of the newsletter is segmented into 4 groups. When you sign up you have the option to optin to receive mailings from anyone , combination of, or all of the content groups. Thanks to the content segmentation feature you will only receive the email updates from us, which are of interest to you.
I have created a dedicated page for the newsletter on the home site. On it you will be able to signup, view past mailings’ archive, as well as unsubscribe. Go now and SIGN UP for the Tzanov Family Newsletter. Thank you for your interest and loyalty.
Wow. I have yet to get a smartphone. Although that will change in January of 2011 (just few more months), when the Apple iPhone 4 will be released on the Verizon network. But, in any case, the new Microsoft Windows 7 smartphone video advertisement is great. Though, in my opinion, it doesn’t really touch on what the “problem” with other smartphones is. Based on personal observations, as long as you have A smartphone in your hand, you are going to be preoccupied with it and not pay attention to anything else. Still, the ad is funny. On that note, you can watch it below:
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Last night, while researching Mr. Potato Head toys, I came across this improve video of the end scenes from Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.
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If you are uncompressing a program from a .bin and you are working with a freshly installed Linux distro, you might receive the following error – sh: uncompress: command not found. This error might be a result of either you have not installed gunzip on your system, or a proper link association with the compression application does not exist.
I will provide instruction on how to fix the latter first, because usually gunzip should be installed by default. To create the proper file linking we will use the ln command, which is used to create links to files. So, all you have to do is first make sure you are logged in as root, then run the following command:
ln -s /usr/bin/gunzip /usr/bin/uncompress
Once this has been done try running the command you executed last when you received the “sh: uncompress: command not found” error. I last encountered this error when I was installing the Valve Source gaming dedicated server – SRCDS, and I was executing the following command – ./hldsupdatetool.bin.
Now, if you do not have gunzip installed, just login as root and use yum or yast to do so. Below is how you can install gunzip using yum.
yum install gzip
