Windows Appliance

Windows actually looks good here. Moneual home theater PCs are stunning. I think I would be quite happy to have one. So long as I don't mess with them I guess they should work fine... Until a new media format arrives.

Apple messes up, points finger at MS Windows

This one is really stupid. Apple shipped iPods with a virus RavMonE.exe (also know as Backdoor DIJ). This goes on to infect all removeable drives you insert. With me that would be a lot. OK so this is not the first time a product has been shipped with a virus. I think the 1st time I heard of something like this was Adobe. But Apple after screwing up says on their support page

As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it

Hey windows is not the most secure operating system, but that was not required.

Firewall logs and Excel

These days I spend a considerable amount of time in Excel, analysing logs. I know there are applications to do this and I would be shifting to a scripted aproach sometime soon, but some amount of manual stuff will still have to happen.
One problem I have always had with Excel is that it messes up sorting IP addresses.
I found a script that is supposed to do this. Perhaps the next version of MS Office will have this built in. Or maybe it already does and I am unaware.

Grrr.....

The festival of noise has begun.

Braballs

The name sounds a bit odd, but these plastic Braballs thingies are supposed to protect a bra in the washing machine. The directions for use seem a bit complicated at first. They look weird too.

New amp, bad connections

Prashant bough a new NAD C 352 amp and was not happy. Says it sounds to critical on many of his CDs. We have swapped amps for a few days. I alove his amp. Its much more detailed than my C 320 and the sound is some how lighter.
Even the wife likes it a lot.
The amp has a weird problem. Sometimes at start up the power LED gets locked into a red mode and then no functions via remote works until I press one of the input selector buttons twice. After that everything is normal.

My MTNL ADSL connection has been acting very silly since a few days. Strangely this coincided with the launch of their IP TV service over the same copper.
I wonder...

More Ambi light

Philips seems to want to take their Ambi light thing further. The amBX PC speaker setup has lights on top of each speaker to make your room glow with the color on your screen, and fans to blow when breeze blows in your game.
Still needs smell though ;)
Now some cheap Asian copy will pop out.

Does Blogger still think I am a spammer

Lets hope this post goes thru.