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I just got this massage chair. There weren’t too many reviews online, so I thought I’d list my thoughts. I’ll keep updating this as time goes on with my impressions. Initial Imperessions: Good: Chair is of really high quality. Good: The hardware of the chair is amazing with lots of possibilities. Bad: The software isn’t very good. Although the hardware of the chair can do so much, the software is poorly designed. In the auto modes, its not possible to turn off individual features. In the manual mode, you cannot setup complex sequences that are available in the auto mode. I’ll expand on this later. Other observations: ...

Requires 20GB of free space to upgradeIf CScript was registered as the default script host in Windows 7, it will be replaced by WScript. To fix this, run CMD with administrative privileges, and execute the following command: cscript //h:cscript //sNetwork printer settings were lost. Had to reattach printer.IIS7 settings were lost. Virtual directories/applications were gone. Also, installed features were missing. I had to reinstall the server side includes feature using control panel, and I needed to redo the handler mappings in IIS so that they were processed by the module.

For a while now, I had an issue with the ATEN KVM switch (dual-DVI) when switching between my Windows and Mac systems. One of the monitors would almost always not be detected after switching. Sometimes this also happened after restarting my computer. The solution would be to turn off the PC and restart, and I would keep my fingers crossed that the second monitor would now be detected. What I should have done is checked the ATEN website. They have a firmware upgrade for my particular switch. The only problem I had with the upgrade was finding a system with a serial port (I still don’t understand why ATEN would build a dual DVI KVM swicth with an upgrade cable that only connects to a serial port). After finding a Thinkpad notebook with a P3 inside and Windows 98 (it stil worked!), I did the upgrade.  Since the upgrade, I have not had the issue come up again.

I just got a Nexus 7 and it pretty much is inferior to an iPad in every sense expect for when watching TV. It would actually make a pretty good remote, assuming there was some decent software to use (I’m currently using TouchSquid, which is pretty crappy, imo). This got me thinking… supposedly Apple is making a bunch of displays that are about 7”. All the rumors seem to point to a iPad-mini or iPod Touch-maxi, but it would be pretty neat if it was actually a iMote or IRemote or iControl. Supposedly Steve Jobs said he figured out a way to control TV… ...

Just ran into a strange issue after upgrading my home network. I got a switch that all devices in my home network are connected to (dumb switch – it al hooks up to a Cisco E2000 for ips).  Anyways… after switching everything over to this new setup, I ran into two issues. First, my gigabit network was no longer gigabit, even though all lights on the switch indicated that it was gigabit.  Network properties in connected computers also indicated gigabit speeds,  but actual file transfers were at fast ethernet speeds. ...

Microsoft has setup a website where users can submit and vote on features they’d like to see in Windows Phone 7. I’ve submitted a couple features I’d like to see: Treat the phone as a USB drive when plugged in to devices which do not have Zune installed.Integrate with Ford SYNC…. I think its crazy that iPhones work with SYNC but WP7 devices do not. You can vote on them here: http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/users/24151465-filip-stanek

Intel has a new Client IT TCO tool available on their website, and according to the tool, new sizes of Intel drives are coming soon in capacities of 300GB and 600GB. I have an 80GB Intel SSD, and having something that’s 300GB in size would be sweet!

If you leave comments on my blog for the sole purpose of providing links to your own blog, those comments will be removed. I have no problems with people linking back to their own site in a comment, but if you do that, at least attempt to stay on topic.

We had a rather silly argument at work today. A co-worker claimed that electronic drums are not drums, but something entirely different. Now, I generally don’t post about all the silly arguments we have at work (there’s a new one every day it seems), but this one just is way over the top in my mind. My first method of argument was, basically, that the term “electronic” (or electric, I consider those to be the same in this particular context) is simply an adjective that describes something.  So, just like all red robins are a subset of robins, electronic drums are a subset of drums.  However, this was not satisfactory, and the co-worker brought up the term “straw man”.  He stated that a straw man is not actually a man.  Fine, I’ll give him this, although it is certainly a rather weak argument since the context must be entirely different for this to be valid. ...