Three things I meant to mention, an update, and a game

JE, Detroit — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:38:03 GMT

There's seems to be a little uncertainty regarding whether or not the Seinfeld commercials will be replaced with those new ones:

http://gizmodo.com/5051682/microsoft-ads-featuring-bill-gates-and-jerry-seinfeld-not-canceled

Three things I meant to mention, an update, and a game

LA Marlowe, Richmond, VA — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:51:32 GMT

interesting concept on Dropbox. And I know I may be the only person who actually reads the damned things but there is verbiage in the EULA even more interesting :

"BY UTILIZING THE SITE, CONTENT, SERVICES AND/OR YOUR FILES, YOU CONSENT TO ALLOW DROPBOX TO ACCESS YOUR COMPUTER..."

"You acknowledge and agree that you should not rely on the Site, Content, Services and Your Files for any reason."

"Dropbox reserves the right, at any time, to impose fees..."

Three things I meant to mention, an update, and a game

Howlin' Hobbit — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:38:27 GMT

I'm a PC. And I run Ubuntu Linux.

Methinks there's more to being a PC than Windows. My Windows box is being emptied and re-purposed.

Oh, and I also own an old eMac. My video and audio tool.

Three things I meant to mention, an update, and a game

Matthew Paul, Ashland, MA — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:50:00 GMT

Will,

I have the same issues as you because I work at home and at various clients, plus use my laptop, so I have 4 different machines I need to have the same stuff on at all times. I don't know how dropbox's interface works, but the problem with stuff like this in general is that you have to actually remember to put it on there at the end of the day, which I don't.

SO... go check out Webdrive - it installs itself as the W: (or other) drive on your regular machine(s). That way you can basically set it up as a web resident Network drive, accessible through Windows explorer or any other programs. The advantage here is that I never drag and drop anything anymore, I simply use the W: drive for all my files (which I have a lot) instead of my local drive, and it does the rest without me thinking about it.

You can use various protocols when you set it up, but I just use ftp (which is slower but simpler) and all my stuff is physically stored on my own ftp site (which I prefer for security). Of course, you never see any ftp stuff, it just happens seamlessly.

There's also Xdrive which is similar, but I like the reliability of Webdrive, very solid.

With Skype and Webdrive and so on, what you really want to create is a Virtual Workspace where the machine is simply a portal to that Workspace, so that effectively all your email, Files, applications, phone calls etc are all accessible with a minimum of setup.

Matthew Paul

Three things I meant to mention, an update, and a game

rtyhsh — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:50:16 GMT

'It's' is a contraction of 'it is.' 'It's' is not a possessive pronoun. 'Its,' however, is.

Three things I meant to mention, an update, and a game

Tim Knoxville, TN — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:57:29 GMT

The new PC commercials are good. I like the ideas that Microsoft is challenging the notion that cool, hip and groovy, and earth friendly types only use macs. Enough with trying to pitch Vista. People either wil get it or not.

Arguably, Ubuntu Linux is a huge step forward about making linux a viable alternative OS for people by removing the often difficult setting-changes-by-editing-config-files issue. Still it is a little hard to get something or drivers to function for the average person (Note I said Average, not Uber Geek).

Mac continues to be a solid OS, but fopr years macs didn't crash because they owned all the hardware inside the machine. Now that their processors are not proprietary motorolla's, and the other components aren't so locked down anymore, you'll start to see other issues come up. Same thing as why its easier to make games for consoles rather than home pc's. Pretty easy to make a smoking game when there is only one set of specs to make it run on. A little different when you have 50 different graphics cards, and 100 different sound cards, with differing amounts of ram and 2 different processors with varying speeds.......

Anyhow, I'm glad that its the 'hipness factor' that’s being challenged. Oh and for the record, flaming mac lovers who will be posting, I have 2 servers running server 2003, 2 laptops with XP pro, a g4 mac server running osx, a mac g4 powerbook running kbunutu, and 2 servers running centos so miss me with the 'pc fanboi' comments. :)

Three things I meant to mention, an update, and a game

Shoaib, Pittsburgh, PA — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:36:49 GMT

211 commands to finish the bot game? How did I fare?

Three things I meant to mention, an update, and a game

kdr, mishawaka, in — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:36:00 GMT

would lov to send a link for the gameroo lite bot but
it needs to be english for my grandson - any ideas?

Three things I meant to mention, an update, and a game

Konnie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:02:35 GMT

don't mean to whine.
actually i love your blog. enough to check it everyday.
however, either do it or don't do it!
If your bosses are giving you other assignments, then
they should hire someone else to run the blog.
However, you should train them well....