Archive for May, 2005

iSight & iChat

Saturday, May 14th, 2005 When I make video connections using my iSight in iChat, I get strange errors like:

No data has been received for the last 10 seconds.

I have no idea what this means. This problem only arose after I switched to Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). I get this in situations where I never had [...]

Court nixes FCC’s broadcast flag

Friday, May 6th, 2005

Rather than try to rehash something that I don’t know enough about to describe without making some errors, I’ll point you to a few places that discuss the high impact court ruling.

Essentially, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC had no rights in forcing manufacturers to include copy protection technology (specifically, the “broadcast [...]

Brad on a Donkey

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

Brad on a Donkey, Originally uploaded by Brad Froehle.

You should check out Flickr, as it now has all of my pictures on it. Like this one, of me on a Donkey outside of Old City Hall in Boston, MA. You can also see a set of all the pictures from my trip to [...]

ML-1710 & Tiger

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

Has anybody gotten their Samsung ML-1710 printer to work with Tiger?

I’ve installed the drivers from Samsung’s website (for Mac OS X 10.3), but they do not seem to show up when I add the printer.

Stressed, Pre-Finals Week Edition

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

With finals week rapidly approaching, I’m beginning to feel a little stressed about this semester.

I have all of my homework done for the rest of the semester, save for the Final Report in Methods of Experimental Physics (MXP). That paper is due on Friday, a rapidly approaching deadline!

However, I should be mostly home free [...]

Flickr Pro

Sunday, May 1st, 2005

I bought a Flickr Pro account a few days ago and went nuts uploading files, maxing out my 2GB limit for the month of April and using 10% of May’s allowance while uploading over 1700 pictures.

If you aren’t a friend or family, some 400 of those won’t be initially visible to you. If [...]