Eric Stewart: Running Off At The Mouth

Certain apps used here at my workplace seem to prefer the actual version of Java 5 rather than the faked one from Java 6. Here’s a quick how to that might help you get your apps working.

A quick blog post to cover something I encountered at work and finally found a solution to.

Netflix and Sony finally got together and now you can “Watch Instantly” streaming movies on your Playstation 3. Far from a full review (as I haven’t watched anything all the way through except a 30 second “Bunny Short”), here are my hopes, expectations, and thoughts on the issue.

I’ve had Windows 7 64 bit on my home machine for about a week now. While I don’t use my home workstation as much as say, my work laptop while sitting in front of the TV, the home workstation is where I’m more likely to see issues with hardware compatibility and software issues. Here’s what I ran into and the resolutions (if any) that I’ve settled on.

I’ve found reasons to purchase three applications from the Palm App Catalog: Twee, Word Whirl, and Weatherman. Here’s reviews of all three apps.

It’s Geek Story Time! In preparation for upgrading my personal machine to Windows 7, decided to move my existing Windows XP partition to another hard drive, and validate its operation by doing “dual boot” with two different XP installations. This wasn’t as easy as it sounds …

I finally got around to getting a hold of and installing Windows 7. I haven’t used it much, but I’ve used it enough to give some initial impressions of it …

A review of what’s been going on in the world of the Palm Pre this past week or so. This includes TWO updates to the webOS and a new method for installing “tweaks”.

So a friend sent me an email asking me what I thought about it now that I’ve had it for a while. I sent him a response, and then decided to write this blog post …

A strange FTP problem was actually the result of one of the systems ignoring TCP Window Scaling. Details below.