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This episode could read like a cautionary tale of excessive information and an overactive imagination. But i decided to throw myself into something rather than stress out. So here you have this show. Full of crazy links covering topics ranging from Flamethrowers rubber duckys, legos, to rayguns!
I don’t expect to have a shift in the production schedule for the podcast but the episodes could get a bit odd for the next couple a shows. Sit down and hold on. I’ve been writing a ton of new stuff, poems, stories the list goes on and on, some of them may show u in a different podcast I’m working on.
Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!
- CaffiNation Back Channel: All the Cruft, non of the Chaff
- Where else can you find me? www.paulrjmuller.com
Geek Cruft
- I can’t live without this tool, Dropbox is awesome
- Automaton Art
- Unphotographable, stunning website h/t povertyjetset and his twitter linkage
- I love to study skulls, thought i’d share a resource
- Lego flamethrower, not the most sturdy, but it does throw flame
- Strong Authentication rules, Facebook now playing nice with OpenID
- Sign in to the CaffiNation with OpenID as well
- Sign in to the CaffiNation with OpenID as well
- The museum that educates without entrance
- Beautiful Taiwanese stadium is 100 percent solar
- Pardon me is that a dog in your ear?
- Dog wash vending machine, try this with cats just for fun
- Spiffy trick box
- Building rayguns for fun
Food & Caffeinated Bits
- Food Tech, Hotdog Launcher and a little philly pride, DC you’re doing it wrong
- Fluffy espresso?
- Fridge Sentry disguised
- Grapes and Espresso… weird
- As a companion for the floating cooler, Rubber Duck Pool Drinking Enabler
- Nerves are better than coffee
Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!
In one of your shows you should discuss the possibility of new regulation on taxing sodas and sugary energy drinks. I just read an article “Senate Drafts Solution to Increasing Obesity and Healthcare Cost – Taxing Sodas and Sugary Energy Drinks” at http://www.5hourenergy.com/blog/2009/05/senate-drafts-solution-to-increasing.html and I think it would make a great topic.
Here’s a Tech Note on DropBox that might help others.
After your high recommendation, and the fact that I was considering something just like this (not just a web upload/download solution), I signed up and installed DropBox myself.
Had big problems, and troubleshooted for 2 days.
My problem: installing the DropBox client on Vista as a “Standard” user account.
I had all kinds of access denied errors, it tried to install it on the Admin user’s file locations, the whole installation vanished after a reboot… it was ugly.
As a good Windows user, I use a Standard user account to limit the amount of maliciousness my system may encounter. Not many do this, and this laptop is the first I’ve ever done it on myself.
So anyway, what a Vista, Standard user account person needs to do with DropBox is elevate that user account to Administrator level. Then install Dropbox, putting the folder in a logical, permissions-accessible location. Configure and test it to make sure all’s well.
After that, you are safe to then drop your user back down to Standard user level.
It’s very bizarre, but until they fix their installation script, this will persist. I saw on their forums that at least one other similar situation occurred for another user a month ago. So either the developers didn’t see it, or just have not fixed it yet.
Well, I thought I would help, and potentially save others some valuable time that I wasted. Now I’m finally psyched to really kick the tires on this thing.
Wow Chuck!
I don’t use vista very often although i have a brand new license and a machine ready and willing to take the plunge now, but i never encountered anything like that. Thanks for the note I’ll be sure to let people know. I always thought i’d have more issues cross platform XP – Mac OS X, and a simple Vista install.
Again sorry you had so many issues I hope the dev team looks into the problems on Vista.