Monthly Archives: April 2005

Block IE use via Proxy registry settings

Another amazingly simple idea from Novel’s cool solutions crowd – blocking access to IE via pushing out the proxy settings in the registry. Tweet

SchoolMatters: online data for schools

Standard & Poor’s has brought SchoolMatters online recently. They bill it as “a public source for information and analysis about our nation’s public schools.” It has some very nice data analysis and comparison tools, although I would like it if you could compare more than four schools at once. Tweet

Copy between USB devices with no computer?

An interesting writeup of the Sync Box USB II caught my eye. It boasts the ability to copy data between two USB devices with no computer. Would be useful for dumping digital photos to a memory key or similar applications. Tweet

More Lessons on Skype

Interesting blog entry on VoIP / Skype: I like his point on branding. This is the 2nd of two posts. The 1st is worth reading as well. Tweet

Linux versus XP on the desktop

The Register has an interesting article about Linux vs. Win XP adoption on the desktop in England. The most interesting part is the results, of course (.PDF file) Tweet

No Name game#1

Another game that seems impossible…. I’d be happy to finish, let alone have a good time. Tweet

Anakin Dynamite

In Anakin Dynamite, an awkward apprentice struggles with older Jedis, school elections and idiots!If you like Napoleon Dynamite and Star Wars, you’ll love Anakin Dynamite. Tweet

The Baby Name Wizard

The Baby Name Wizard is a very cool Java web-based application that will let you look at the popularity of different baby names over the last 100 years. I’m not sure why it’s so addicting, but you find yourself putting every name you can think of in it. Tweet

Installing GroupWise on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server

Another great walkthrough from the folks over at Novell’s Cool Solutions. Tweet

VNCon – VNC for lab management

Came across an interesting tool called VNCon that gives VNC some lab management functionality. Here is a list of the main features included with VNCon: Computer Switching: Cycles through the list monitoring activity, and allowing you to take control or send a message at the touch of a button Password Support : You can specify [...]