Thursday, January 17, 2002

Excellent technical tidbit from Ken: "Useful but little known fact: Internet Explorer limits your downloads from a single HTTP server to 2. Change the following registry keys to fix this: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet SettingsMaxConnectionsPerServer HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet SettingsMaxConnectionsPer1_0Server" I can't tell you how many times I've found this to be a complete pain in the ass, but thought I was being throttled at the server-side.  D'oh! 6:04:55 PM      comment [] It's amazing to me just how much my mood on a day-to-day basis influences, and more importantly, is influenced by, my productivity during the work day.  I normally feel really good if I've been in the zone and gotten alot of code written, and I feel awful otherwise. Unfortunately, as Ken and I have often discussed, I have little to no idea how to influence either.  I'm working on dealing with mood issues more, and over the past few days, I've felt more able to control my productivity as well.  I feel optimistic... today, at least. Ken sent me a great article about this a while back. 5:57:14 PM      comment [] God, I wish computers were quieter.  The Dell Xeon workstation on my left is utterly silent, only spinning up its fans when it really starts to heat up under heavy CPU usage (which is almost never, unless I kick off a huge poorly designed SQL query or something), but my primary Athlon machine on my right (as well as the Athlon I run at home) is so loud that I actually find it fatiguing. 5:45:28 PM      comment [] So I've been using Radio for roughly an hour and I'm already addicted to this blogging idea.  Between my own past habits of firing off the occasional email when I found something I liked, desire to maintain a central bookmark service, and incredible narcissism, how can I go wrong? 5:40:36 PM      comment [] Ken, who's not a Mac guy at all, really likes the new iMac; I can't stand it.  I'll freely admit it's genius design... I just think it's hideous.  None of the Mac guys I know seem to understand my desire to be able to upgrade a computer's internals. Moreover, while I'm all for the whole "information appliances that we never see with floating screens" idea, I don't think that dumpy little dome is quite the Gattaca-esque thing they're going for.     5:23:20 PM      comment [] The first version of this was lost when I had to reinstall Radio, so I'll try and rewrite it... I've never gotten into blogging, as it just seemed like too much of a PITA, but my friend Ken sent me a link to Radio and it seemed cool, so I'm giving it a try.  I'm a big fan of XML-RPC, from having used it on a big programming project, so I'm inclined to look favorably on other Dave Winer stuff. After I wrote this (roughly 10 minutes after I got Radio up and running), I managed to break it by messing with the product's storage paths.  I like to keep things I know I'll want to move from machine to machine in My Documents, which is on a different spindle from Program Files, and I meddled with path settings without really understanding the product.  Whoops :) 5:14:48 PM      comment [] From my friend Ken Rawlings: Sigh. So the new PalmOS won't support multimedia like MP3's, even though the new operating system is based on BeOS, not to mention that Microsoft's PalmPC's have had this capability for 2 years now. I bought one of the original USR Palm's and had high hopes for the new OS, but sadly it looks like its replacement is going to end up being a Microsoft PalmPC. Now I feel like I'm fucked no matter how I go; PalmOS isn't growing in ways that I like, and I really, really don't like Windows CE.  I spent a fair amount of time playing with top-of-the-line PocketPCs at the last TechEd and they crashed, were slow, and just generally unpleasant.  Pain in the ass to program, too.  Nice color screens, though. I mainly just use my Palm m505 as an organizer, but I'd really like to see Palm grow and not get blown away by Microsoft on a feature-by-feature basis.  It'd be killer to take my Palm to the gym and listen to tunes. 5:04:21 PM      comment []

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