encrypted mail for osx
use your thawte certificate seamlessly in mac mail. osx makes it easy. wow love it. yah i won’t bother with making another keychain… if someone is sitting at my box, logged in, the game’s over anyway.
dean goes “yaaaaahhhh”
amy rocks. she heard this audio clip of howard dean’s scream and thought “that’d sound cool to a metal soundtrack”. here is her remixed version.
automatic voltage regulation
i’ve always lusted after monster cable’s voltage stabilizers such as the AVS2000… but they’re soooooo damn expensive. in short, they act as a battery-less UPS system that makes minor corrections in the power flowing to your components. since normal ac power can fluctuate between 80 and 140 volts, these cool little toys ensure a consistent 120V output.
a normal surge-protector can only prevent too much power from reaching a system. a few years ago the power coming into my house went really low (brownout) early in the morning, for probably about 30 minutes or so. ended up frying a ton of my equipment. yah, low power can be as painfull as high power. then you watch the lights dim as the refridgerator comes on…
so i found a good option to spending $1000+ at monsterpower: APC makes a similar product, the Line-R which, at $40, is perfect. really it’ll save me money on not having to buy a large VA UPS, since i’m prefectly content putting a monitor on this, and leaving just the workstation on a UPS.
radar detectors
so it seems there’s a bit of a pissing match between the founder of valentine one and the author of radartest.com. what it boils down to is personal preference, since the valentine-1 and the passport seem to come out even in both range and detection. consumersearch.com seems to have fairly unbiased thoughts on the topic as well.
i stay with the valentine since it does really help to know where the radar is coming from, and no other detector has directional indicators. also it seems that in car and drivers latest test the valentine one rocked. in the end, i love my valentine enought to buy another one for my next car, even though it’s $100 more expensive than anything else.