I was looking for monitors and got into the whole color thing. Here's my summary of findings.

I'm reading an Avaya (Lucent) manual about Avaya and Duvoice DV2000 integration. Being a phone novice, I don't really grasp how these technologies integrated. I assumed there was some kind of computer network between the voicemail and pbx.

That assumption was totally wrong.

It all starts with Windows NT, the secure Windows. NT4 added many features and a nice visual onto NT 3.5, but it crashed a lot. Windows 2000 fixed a lot of crashes, and became the stable Windows OS. XP added better multimedia, and improved ways to handle network security. After service pack 2, XP was stable and good.

Vista added many features. The problem was, it added too many new features that also slowed the machine down, a lot. Customers bought new, faster computers expecting them to be faster, but they were slower. Everything worked differently too. People were frustrated. Vista flopped.

Windows 7 design goal was "performance". Generally, the easiest way to improve how fast a system feels is to stop running programs that you're not using. Windows 7 does that. It comes with less software installed. Reportedly, it's still slower than XP, but faster than Vista.

They also fixed up a lot of interface issues and added some features.

Check it out: only 5,830 matches for "роrn". The old fuddy duddies and anti-porn forces have won.

There are so many versions of Windows out there - not only XP, Vista, and 7; not only Home and Pro, Ultimate or Basic or whatever; but also the Corporate, OEM, and Retail; and for each of those, a different media, different manufacturers, and even different vintages. So, suppose you, like I, found a junked computer and revived it, but reinstalled from your own copy of XP Home. During registration, the CD Key on the sticker on the case will not work. The media you have, and the media the computer came with are not the same.

Despite this, you have a legit XP Home license. (I have four of them, collected from junked computers.) You have the computer, and the motherboard. You could call Microsoft... but they may not activate you. If it hasn't happened yet, they will eventually refuse to activate Windows XP.

Enter the hack. While some people like to call MS, some would rather just find a quick, reliable technical solution. That solution is called AntiWPA; to find it, search for it.

As all Linux users know, it's easy to install software on Linux, because most of it is done via a package manager. For non-Linux users, this is akin to the iPhone App Store, except it's free. You select your software, and it will be installed.

It's like magic, because any related software is also installed.

Lately, I've noticed a new trend in my behavior for the past two years. I install and remove software from my Linux systems all the time. Sometimes, I'll even remove programs that I use occasionally, simply to "keep the system a little cleaner." Really, it's just to get rid of icons from the Applications menu.

TechRepublic had a list of geek books, and user cyberserf compiled it into a convenient text file (itself, a totally geeky endavour).

Starting up a new list of possible companies to use for nonprofit left, left-center.

http://tumis.com/section/view/about_us
http://www.echoditto.com/about
http://www.advomatic.com/about
http://www.forumone.com/about_us
http://webtraxstudio.com/

Once again, another morph. This time from the popular Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek to the guy he studies, French philosopher Jacques Lacan. This one is almost right, but moving the hand from the cheek to the chin was impossible for me.

I didn't mention a couple posts back about the command to combine the output of JavaMorph into a movie:

ffmpeg -f image2 -i %03d.jpg out.mov

You run that command inside the output directory.

Here's my latest morph, showing Thom Yorke of Radiohead morphing into David Byrne of Talking Heads. It would have been even better if it was Radiohead from around Kid A morphing into Talking Heads circa Remain in Light.

Here's another morph, similar to the last one. I'm learning how to set the points. There are a lot of errors, still, but a few things have improved, like the fact that the background doesn't just fade away. The background almost morphs correctly. The shirt doesn't work at all. This is definitely violating someone's copyright. Going forward, I'll use only Wikimedia Commons images.

Here's a video (viewable on Firefox) in Ogg Theora video format. It was created with JavaMorph, a FOSS morphing program, and PiTiVi, a simple video editor. The morpher made the transition, and Pitivi was used to add the stills at either end of the video.

Living turkey morphs into a cooked turkey dinner.

I was just thinking about computers I've owned, and six came out of boxes, ready to run. An Atari 800, and Atari 1040 ST, a Mac Quadra 660 (I think), a Mac iBook, a Mini Mac, and a Compaq budget PC. The rest were bought used, found in the trash, built from parts, or were kits or kit-like (barebones kits that took disks). I'm not sure how many computers I've owned, total. Probably between 20 and 30.

I've never put a ID onto the BODY tag, but here's a situation where it's useful.

Normally, an article has an H1 tag that contains the title for the page.  You do this for SEO reasons, as well as semantics.

This rant is so right. SFF computers with power bricks suck.