Hi! My name is Jonathan Heizer. I am a 24 year old from the United States and work as a .Net Developer. This site contains interest of mine, neat news stories, and progress of projects I am working on.
Jan
30
hinks the federal government is too intrusive? You ain’t seen nothing yet. An FCC mandate will require that all hardware and software have a wiretap backdoor that allows the government to tap into all your communications.
Now this is going a bit overboard…
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Jan
25
The next Beta of Gaim has been released. You can get it from their sourceforge site. There are a few changes that I noticed right away that were in Beta 1.
Here you can see the connection status and away message textbox are a lot smaller. They also removed the status for each protocol. A [...]
Jan
24
“Walt Disney has announced that it is buying Pixar, the animated studio led by Apple head Steve Jobs, in a deal worth $7.4 billion. Speculation about a deal being imminent raged on Wall Street for the past few weeks. Disney has released all of Pixar’s films so far but their current distribution deal was [...]
Jan
23
As you can see, the post below has a Video embedded in it. This uses the new feature from Google Video that allows you to include one their videos. You simple click “Put On Site” and a box appears with the code to copy and paste. Very convenient
Jan
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Jan
20
About 2 weeks ago, I had an article about hard disk recovery on the front page. One of the suggested solution to let people recover their data was to put their HD in the freezer, does this solution actually work? I tested it, and I have some pictures of the process.
Interesting…. Any of you [...]
Jan
19
Jan. 19, 2006 The Atlas V Launch Was A Success. The 10 Year Journey Begins. The spacecraft will cross the entire span of the solar system and conduct flyby studies of Pluto and Charon in 2015. Watch it live @ http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/nasadirect/nasatv/tv-ie.htm
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Jan
17
“The VIA VT-310DP is the latest in VIA’s growing line of highly acclaimed Mini-ITX mainboards and introduces dual processing power and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity to the Mini-ITX form factor for the first time. Combined with the VIA CN400 digital media chipset, the VIA VT310 DP enables the development of a wealth of high density, low [...]
Jan
17
“Here is a listing of great Telnet sites for fun.
I like telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl (port 23) the best.”
There are some fun links here to play with. Check it out.
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Jan
17
“Advertisers are slowly discovering the potential of Google Maps, and some, like the Target store above (more at Google Sightseeing), are even enjoying some unexpected windfall.”
I don’t know about you, but the satellite imagery for my area and many others are years behind. I wonder how many people will try this and are [...]
Jan
17
Jan
16
“Customers demanded it and now it’s here. Sun is challenging Dell to a Benchmark Brawl. Up for contention are the titles for the server side Java benchmark. Floating point intensive calculation. Power consumption. And the jewel in the crown, price-performance.
Benchmark Brawl Details
* If Dell accepts, benchmarks will be conducted by a neutral, third-party lab running [...]