SATN.org: Comments from Bob Frankston, David Reed, Dan Bricklin, and others. Interesting to see what the deans of the personal computer have to say. A great blog. And, no, I don't know what satn stands for.
February 2002 Archives
Home Theater Advice for this Month
Remote Central is the place for automating your remote controls. I personally think the Philips Pronto are the absolute best price/performance leader. Plus I love programming it. Remote Central lets you do that, find other task based user interfaces and codes for all your home theater equipment.Time Synchronization Explained
Time Synchronization Software is the central place where all information on syncing time across the Internet with your PC. Some great utilities to keep things in sync.AtomTime98This is the way to automatically updae the clock on Windows 98 machines. Wih Windows XP, it has is own sync software built in so you don't need this. Double click on the time on the lower left and it is the third pane.
Network Time Protocol (NTP) Explained. Windows XP has a time synchronization utility. Very valuable for geeks like me to have my watches exactly on time. Doesn't work on my HP XP machine, but does on my home one. It complains about being in the wrong stratum. Didn't understand this until I read all about NTP at this URL.
Small Form Factor PCs
Panel PCs Prices.Best price list for Panel PCs, they are expensive at $3,000 for a 15" LCD with a PC in it, but haven't checked them all out yet. These are in Australian dollars, but give you a sense of cost.Panel PC OK, Star Trek here we come, here is a PC built into an LCD flat panel by It doesn't have a price on it, but it sure is cool. Might get one of these for Grace...
Book PC A true book sized PC, might get one just to see if it really works at. It is from EZgo Portable PC Barebone. Smallest PC in the World. Upto 1GHz, CD-ROM ( DVD, CD-RW, CD-RW/DVD Combo optional)
Build Your Own Mini-PC. OK, so I fried Alex's computer by plugging in the power supply. Replaced it, but I'll need another. I bought a monitor already, soee the next blog, but now is the time to build another machine. Thank goodness, Tom's Hardware gives me the spec for a micro machine with a Flex ATX board. Pretty cool.
Greetings
Blogger Rich's first post of a new blog. Hopefully I'll update this as I find interesting new sites on PCs, consumer electronics of all sorts, and bicyclng as well as strange wireless gadgets.Here are the latest personal photos. Thanks to Seattle Filmworks for their great digitization, although you do have to manually convert from their proprietary format to JPEGs. These are thumbnails and behind each is a full 30KB JPEG you can get just by clicking.
Just before Alex was born
The Big Year of Change
This was the year that I left Microsoft. It was the new millenium too. Started to work on a new company called Ignition. Has been a lot of fun working with great people
Rich at home in 2000
At the 'rents house
Happy Birthday to Me in 1996
Yes, it's my 35th birthday. Boo-hoo. How sad, but a great barbecue in any event.
Here is an early picture with me and Alex
And, here is my buddy Jon on his new boat
Here was his latest poem on Winterlude in 2001. They love to do these kind of anagram things
*W* interlude is fun
*I* love winterlude
*N* othing is better
*T* errific skiing
*E* xtra glad
*R* ope tow
*L* ike skiing
*U* pstairs at lunch
*D* rive on a bus and play chess on the bus
*E* at hot chocolate at lunch
