Tuesday, May 13, 2003

Computer Circuits Made of Genes May Soon Program Bacteria Google Search It Perhaps this is not strictly a software engineering topic but it seems to relate vaguely and its is interesting enough to warrant the slightly off category post.  Check out the article. 9:45:04 PM   []    comment []

Pocket PC 802.11 Wireless LAN PC Card Compatibility and Drivers Google Search It This site show a list of the 802.11 PCMCIA cards that work with PocketPC. 6:28:16 AM   []    comment []

How can I configure the time service in Windows 2000? Google Search It This article is a good write-up on how to configure you computer to use an NTP server. 2:21:34 AM   []    comment []

Verizon to Offer WiFi Access from Pay Phones in New York City Google Search It "Verizon plans to put transmitters in pay phones across New York City, creating "WiFi hot spots" where customers with specially equipped laptop computers and handheld devices can surf the Internet at high speeds -- without clumsy wires." 2:18:45 AM   []    comment []

Google to Index and Search Blogs Separately Google Search It Recently I have begun to notice the my blog shows up in a remarkable number of Google searches.  In an effort to minimize this occurrence Google announced  that it will remove blogs from its regular search engine and instead provide a blog specific search engine.  The primary reason is that all that blogs do is repost commentary on the main article making it difficult to find the primary source. Hmmm.... I wonder if I ever do that?  :) 2:09:20 AM   []    comment []

Power Off Your Computer Automagically at Shutdown Google Search It The following tip was taken from the Tue, May 13, 2003 (Vol. 3, 19 - Issue 75) edition of WinXPnews™ E-Zine "Do you want your computer's power to turn off when you shut it down, so you won't have to manually push the power button? Here's how: Click Start, then click the Run command. Type REGEDIT in the Open text box and click OK. Navigate to the following Registry key:      HKEY CURRENT USERControl PanelDesktop Find the PowerOffActive entry in the right pane of the Registry Editor and double click on it. In the Edit String dialog box, replace the 0 in the Value data text box with a 1, then click OK. Restart the computer. This does not work all the time as it depends on the type of hardware (motherboard) you have in your computer, but it won't hurt anything." For a registry file that automagically adds this go here. 1:50:37 AM   []    comment []

ActiveSync 3.7 Released Google Search It ActiveSync 3.7 has recently been released by Microsoft.  You can check out a list of the new features here. 1:29:08 AM   []    comment []

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