VoIP used to boast its clarity and noise-free signals. Now, there is a new feature for some VoIP systems (such as Microsoft Response Point) to promote, Comfort Noise. I found this particular quirk when looking at some D-Link VoIP network products and noticed it was listed as a feature. At some point when cell phone […]

Google recently released a new “Task List” feature for their mobile customers. It is a very nice feature, better than anything I have written for GITI, but it does not easily snap into my existing application without special API coding. My complaint with Google on this is very simple, the way in which they promote […]

My network is primarily a Microsoft Active Directory domain, with a majority of clients being member systems. An Ubuntu Linux system does not, in its default state, fit in to that network. Using a tool called Likewise Open I was very easily able to add my Ubuntu system to the Windows domain. Once the tool […]

During the Summer 2008 semester I was intruced to an email client at UNC called Pine, a very simple, shell email client. In playing with Ubuntu I have found its modern counterpart, Alpine. It is a really simple email client that runs in the Linux/Unix shell. My only problem with it is that it is […]

I have been running Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) for several days now, and I am mostly happy with it. I am finding a lot of things to be faster under this OS, including anything written in Java or C# (such as my Linux replacement for WLW, BloGTK). I thought for certain that I would be […]

Two days ago I decided to install Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop. The installation was difficult to complete due to a flaw in my Dell laptop’s “thermal management” functions, but otherwise, it was smooth. Once in the OS, I had some minor issues with getting my wireless network card driver to install, but the drivers […]

In an email this evening my literature instructor asked me what my plans were for my portal… at first I had to remind myself which site I had identified as potentially becoming a portal, and then I remembered, the curtis.kularski.net project. I honestly do not know what I plan to do with it completely. There […]

Passwords Time to Hack 4 character lower or upper case letters a few seconds 4 character lower and upper case letters a few seconds 4 character lower and upper case and number a few seconds 5 character lower or upper case letters (e.g passb) under 60 seconds 5 character lower & upper case letters (e.g […]

I have narrowed my side column on the blog. This results in a wider place for my actual entries. I will also be soon removing some useless junk from the side column.

I have had a few programming classes now and it seems as though programmers are being trained to program for failure rather than success. One of the features of modern programming languages is exception handling. While this is a nice feature, because users do stupid things and we don’t always need an application to crash […]