Category: Tech
How to Minimize Payments to Your Local Cable Monopoly
While this is a less serious issue than healthcare, most of us face unfairly high monthly service fees and poor customer service from our monopolistic local cable companies. In Seattle, we struggle with Comcast, which is poorly regulated by the...
How We Caught Missing Wired Magazine Writer Evan Ratliff
Update: You can read, watch and listen to a summary of all post-contest media here. The following post is a detailed technical description of how we found the clues to Evan’s whereabouts and notified Naked Pizza who captured Evan in New...
What to expect from the Apple MacPad: predicting the release of the long-rumored Mac Tablet
You can view the original version of this page in the Archive.org Wayback Machine. Brief update: Welcome Slashdot and MacSurfer readers. Coincidentally, Gizmodo is reporting today that Apple plans to release an $800 tablet or netbook in October – based...
Confirmed: Apple OS X 10.5.6 Update Can Break Your MacBook Pro
You can view the original version of this page in the Archive.org Wayback Machine For Christmas this year, Apple sent me a software update that crashed my MacBook Pro. A few days after I installed the OS X 10.5.6 update,...
Microsoft Drops The Ball on Internet Explorer 7 Standards Compliance
You can view the original version of this page in the Archive.org Wayback Machine. Microsoft often says it’s pro-standards – but typically, they’d rather own a proprietary interface or protocol than build a compatible system. As I relaunched the new...
iPod your Subaru Outback
Update: iPhone owners may want to check out iPhone your Subaru Outback Welcome CNET readers. You can purchase the MediaGate i-Kit FM Transmitter here. Or, read on for more information about how I modified my car. Recently, I bought a...
How to fix fatal error “Call to undefined function: mysql_connect()”
I thought I’d post this so people can find the answer more easily than I was able to. If you get this error when a PHP 4 page tries to connect to MySQL on Debian Sarge (testing release): Fatal error:...