If you’re in the market for a USB -> TOSLink (Digital Audio Output), I’d highly recommend skipping over overpriced crap like the Extigy and instead save yourself a chunk of cash and pick up this USB Sound Box for $25. This thing has worked flawlessly over the past few months on both Windows and OS X machines. It also has AC97 analog output built in, although if you’re hooking it up to anything worthwhile, you really want to use the TOSLink. (Made by Shin Kin Enterprises Co., Ltd., although their website seems to be offline)
Category: Legacy
You know, I still find it surprising that after all these years, Netscape still doesn’t have an answer to MSDN’s DHTML Reference. Trying to find stuff in the Mozilla DOM document (TOC) is pretty trying, and even when you get to it, the information you’re likely to want won’t be there (lists of properties or interface names, much less any working examples). Sure Mozilla is a group effort, but you’d think that over the past, say 4 or 5 years, that AOL/Netscape could have spared the budget for at least 1 intern to at create a shell of a document or install a simple search engine or, well, anything…*
(I’ve been tackling some event code again tonight. event.keyCodes of course can be gotten via introspection (and of course by now are fairly well documented elsewhere), but how about for example, finding out the Event interface types used for something like dispatchEvent()? Google doesn’t turn up anything and beyond the one example type (“click”) the Mozilla docs sure as heck don’t.
* No promises, but if I can ever get this event muck worked out, I might be launching something that could eventually help the situation
I want my Dual DVI! Petition – this page also has a pretty complete list of the Dual DVI cards out there. Matrox also has a Millenium G550 Dual-DVI at a reasonable price, although not without limitations (both primary and secondary desktops must be set at the same resolution and color depth, and the maximum available resolution is 1280×1024). Still, if you’re running W2K, this or the Parhelia is pretty much your only decent multi-monitor option.
I picked up the recently discontinued Gainward Ti 4600 card a few weeks ago. Originally I had intended to pick up a pair of LCD screens by now, but it turns out the screens I were looking at (NEC-Mitusbishi LCD1760NX) are using the same 18-bit AU Optronics screens as the Hitachi CML174 series [Tom’s Hardware has some info: Hitachi CML174SXW, LCD 17: Samsung 171N & NEC LCD1760V vs. Everyone Else], which well, just really isn’t acceptable.
LG.Philips have recently announced some new screens with impressive brightness, color saturation, and contrast ratios as well as 12-16ms response times that according to Tom’s Hardware will be out by this summer, so I’ll probably be waiting a while before I drop a thousand dollars on displays. Who knows, maybe Samsung will even have something new out.
List of consumer Dual DVI cards:
WWW::AllMusicGuide – An object to search the All Music Guide (www.allmusic.com)
You may have remembered this site as hiptop central a few months ago. I’m still using the hiptop, although my attention has been distracted. For the most part I’m happy with it even if the GPRS seems flakey, and they never fixed those browser rendering problems. Apparently an SDK is coming real soon now as is… a color model
bcrypt and ccrypt are cross-platform file encryption tools (Linux, Win32, OS X). This looks like it’d be useful for use with a usb flash drive that doesn’t have built-in encryption tools. It’d be nice if there was a GUI for each platform, but I wasn’t able to find one.
Interesting, I just got a phone call from 714-210-3384 (apparently a North Orange County number, no valid reverse lookup) that just gave me an automated ‘I’m sorry I must have called the wrong number’ message. I’m assuming it’s one of those telemarketing calls that only leaves something on your voicemail. I haven’t gotten much telemarketing since all I have is a cell phone, but I noticed getting some more recently. Something to look into for the future I suppose.
NewsMonster seems to be the big thing this morning. I’ve checked out the project via CVS, but have yet to have a chance to install it and get it up and running. Here’s some talk: Ben Hammersley: NewsMonster Cometh, dive into mark: robots.txt support for uber-aggregators, saladwithsteve.
Oh, looks like Kevin Burton, the guy behind NewsMonster is tracking feedback via his blog.
Hmm, this Lindows Mobile PC looks decent. Under three pounds, Firewire and USB 2.0 for $800. No built-in wi-fi though, and external CD drive. I wonder what the battery life is like?
Nope, not too much of a pain.