Wednesday Wiener Schnitzel
I'll be at home tomorrow. The plumbing contractor will be sending people to fix the vinyl flooring, paint the drywall, and patch the scratches put into our new tub by the tile guy. We hope these people are professionals but given the performance of the other sub-contractors I am not very hopeful it will turn out that way. Sigh.
In any event, it is unlikely I will be posting tomorrow unless something really, really big comes up.
Good Stuff for Geeks. If you are in PC support and want a small utility that tells you what the Microsoft error codes are, then this one is for you. It's called "Error Messages for Windows" (full marks for originality) by Gregory Braun and can be downloaded here. You can either type in a specific error code and get what each means or you can get a listing of all error codes and print them out.
Sun's StarOffice 7 Office Suite is set for release next week Tuesday (14 October). But you can get the evaluation version now from Sun here. StarOffice, as opposed to its little brother OpenOffice, is not free. The MSRP is $79.95USD. Only you can decide if the benefits are worth the cost so try the evaluation version to find out. Or not.
Over at ThinkGeek, they have the perfect thing for CubicleWars: the wireless color mini video cam mounted on one of the tracked rovers (see it here). Just the thing to scope out what's happening around the next bend.
If that doesn't get your geek meter pegged, then check out the Lian-Li PC case with a built in aquarium (see it here). I kid you not. An aquarium built into the aluminum PC case. The kit includes fish, air pump, cathode light, and mounting accessories. Water not included.
And finally, for the US Geek who just has to know what time it is comes the Casio Waveceptor wristwatch that receives its time signal from the atomic clock in Fort Collins, Colorado. You have to be within 2,000 miles of the atomic clock to get a signal but if you are, there aren't too many watches that will be more accurate than yours. At least, not at $39.95. See the watch here.
Aloha!