Two creative projects from Microsoft:
1.? StayAtHomeServer.com, about Microsoft’s Windows Home Server has some funny videos and a “kid’s book” called Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?
2.? The Heroes Happen Here online comic chronicles the adventures of an IT Pro.
If you want to watch German TV from the US, you need to check out shift TV. We used to subscribe to Dish Network’s German channels, but we had a lot of problems with our SuperDish and weren’t very happy with the selection of shows.
Shift TV is like having online access to a super TiVo device that’s in Germany. You have access to 20 channels. Depending on the subscription you buy, you get up to 20 hours of recording time. Once shows are recorded, you can either stream them to your computer or download them for watching later. Once you delete a show (after watching or downloading), that time is available for more recordings.
The video quality isn’t as good as Dish Network’s, but the overwhelming program selection and 100% availability easily make up for that. And it costs less–one year paid up front is 59.99 Euros. I don’t know if this service will be around in year, but we’ve been using it for over 3 months now and love it. You have your choice of made-in-Germany programming, overdubbed American programming, sports, and lots of kid’s shows.
You can even sign up for a free trial account that has 2 hours of recording time (but you can’t record shows at night until you pay and then prove that you’re over 18 years of age). So, there’s no reason not to try it!
Most of us learned some version of the following in school:? Galileo was a brilliant scientist who discovered the truth and was then persecuted by an intolerant church.
Today the Thinking Christian pointed me to a great post at the evangelical outpost that attempts to set the record straight.? It’s definitely worth a read.? I’m hoping to check out the references soon.
Here’s a useful bandwidth calculator that a colleague pointed out today.
On January 30, several submarine cables were severed in the Mediterranean Sea just north of Alexandria, Egypt.
You can read more about it on the Renesys blog and the BBC, and read more about submarine cables at TeleGeography.com.
Check out this store’s web site.? Wait for it…
Another great tip that I’ll use from the How-To Geek: install a little app that add a tabbed interface to the free ssh client PuTTY.
Get the PuTTY connection manager here.
If you want to learn more about PuTTY and other Windows SSH clients, check out this page.
Rob blogged about two great videos that he found.? I’m somewhat ashamed to say that my favorite is this one about chicken fried bacon.? Don’t tell my doctor…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfbTO0GlONU[/youtube]
The How-To Geek, which I will be reading regularly from now on, has a very nice article about svchost.exe — what it does and why there are so many instances of it running on our Windows machines.
Hilarious.? Saw this on Paul Thurrott’s blog.
