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Re: (Presentation) Design tips for VMware vSphere 4

jarednevans — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:24:05 -0000

Thanks for the PDF!

Re: Kudos to David Curlee for including the ASL terp in panel video

jarednevans — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:51:50 -0000

Aaron Hall: "If you cut out the T-shirts and interpreters, you would break even." This comment shows that he thinks the interpreters weren't necessary at the event. This was a sign that he believes that the request for interpreters wasn't important and should have been declined.

Re: Bypassing Verizon FIOS Actiontec router and using your own router instead

jarednevans — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:30:22 -0000

You have to release the IP address from Actiontec.

Re: Ever Downloaded a Copyrighted Song? You Owe Infinity Dollars

jarednevans — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:46:32 -0000

It can be this or that percentage. The main point of my comment is that it will cost X amount of dollars and not infinity as stated in the article.

Re: Ever Downloaded a Copyrighted Song? You Owe Infinity Dollars

jarednevans — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:37:18 -0000

I would like to point out that the infinity cost argument is flawed. You only need $650 continuous compounding at 5% yearly to generate enough money to cover the Zune Pass costs indefinitely.

Re: Bypassing Verizon FIOS Actiontec router and using your own router instead

jarednevans — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:12:37 -0000

I believe you are supposed to return the Actiontec router to Verizon when you are terminate your contract with them.

Time Warner should have given you a cable modem. Turn off Actiontec and do a hard reset on TW modem. Turn TW modem on, wait a bit, then plug Actiontec WAN port (white port on the back) to the cable modem.

Make sure Actiontec itself is set to attempt to DHCP an address from TW and also is acting as a DHCP server for your wireless devices.

Re: Netflix CEO really doesn’t care about subtitles/captioning

jarednevans — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:40:12 -0000

We all have known that Netflix has not been moving on subtitles for a long time now even after many of us have bothering them about it and they keep saying, "it's coming soon someday..."

But to see such an clear-cut message directly from CEO himself saying that it's not important and not one of their priorities totally takes the cake and boils my blood. It's clear they lied to us and have no plans at all to tackle this issue of inaccessiblity.

Two years is more than enough time to include the subtitling into their workflow when adding movies to their "Watch Now" feature.

Re: Netflix CEO really doesn’t care about subtitles/captioning

jarednevans — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:12:50 -0000

That will not help. Netflix is not legally bound to provide subtitles online. The Telecommunications Act doesn't apply in this case.

Re: Amy Cohen Efron and Barbara DiGiovanni, you both have my support!

jarednevans — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:24:56 -0000

I can see that the same points are being rehashed again and again. I will be closing comments on this post. There are disagreements here that will not be resolved. It's time to move on.

Re: Running on Wordpress 2.7.1 and upgraded to latest Disqus comments management plugin

jarednevans — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:48:44 -0000

Seesmic video reply from Disqus.

Re: Installing Adobe AIR for Linux / TweetDeck on Ubuntu

jarednevans — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:16:57 -0000

Yes, it works fine on openSuse 11.1 desktop (which is what I use at work).

Don't forget to su and chmod u+x the bin file before running it.

I'm not sure about your display problem but this may fix it:

From your regular user login (not root):
export DISPLAY=:0.0

then you can su and run the bin file.

Re: Bypassing Verizon FIOS Actiontec router and using your own router instead

jarednevans — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:25:22 -0000

It's always great when you find a post that compresses all the information into a single page :-)

Re: Arrow keys not working inside VMware BIOS

jarednevans — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:52:44 -0000

I'm not sure what to tell you. This solved the problem for me and others. This was tested on Ubuntu, not other Linux distros. You need to be root to edit and save /etc/vmware/config.

Re: Will be videoblogging remotely for the inauguration

jarednevans — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:55:46 -0000

Unfortunately, when I arrived at the Mall, it was a complete blackout on the Sprint cellphone network. I could not send any updates from the field. My BB quickly ran out of juice due to the cold weather and trying repeatedly to get back on the network. There were just too many people in the area.

Re: Watching the Inauguration online

jarednevans — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:40:49 -0000

great... I checked that same site earlier and the CC logo wasn't there.

Re: SubPLY offering free captioning of YouTube video clips

jarednevans — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:28:52 -0000

I don't think there are enough volunteers out there to do this. It is *NOT* easy to translate ASL into English. It's nothing like transcribing Spoken English into Written English with one-to-one relationship between the sounds/words. ASL -> English is a separate language into another different language and requires more mental processing.

I challenge you to translate 5 minutes ASL vlog into subtitles. You will be very surprised at how much time it'll take you to translate the vlog, even if it's only 5 minutes long. You'll have more respect for under-appreciated sign language interpreters once you realize how difficult their jobs really are. :-)

Re: first HD here in my Blog (testing)

jarednevans — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:22:41 -0000

great quality! Time to buy a HD camcorder! Which model did you use?

Re: Transferring waypoints from personal Google Maps to your Garmin GPS unit

jarednevans — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:49:31 -0000

Robert, the reason I included EasyGPS is because it allows you to do one final editing of the waypoints before the actual transfer into the GPS unit. My GPS unit has limit of 10 characters for waypoint names, I use EasyGPS to rename them.

Rich, GMAPtoGPX doesn't allow me to transfer waypoints from personal maps in the "My Maps" feature of Google Maps. This software only works on search results or driving directions.

Re: Better accessiblity at hotels: innovative iPhone service application

jarednevans — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:40:19 -0000

That's why they ask to have your "credit card on file." You don't return the iPhone to the hotel, no problem, it'll show up on your credit card bill next month :-)

Re: Better accessiblity at hotels: innovative iPhone service application

jarednevans — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:10:23 -0000

Yes, it'll work with iPod Touch. It depends upon WiFi, not cellphone functionality.

Re: Better accessiblity at hotels: innovative iPhone service application

jarednevans — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:49:23 -0000

Why don't you stay there for a weekend and let us all know? :-)

Re: Ubuntu installation on USB pen drive- Error 17: cannot mount selected partition

jarednevans — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:07:27 -0000

This happened because I skipped the step to disconnect all the hard drives on my system, which was really a precautionary measure for Linux newbies to avoid losing all the data on a hard drive if the loader was incorrectly installed on the wrong hard drive. If I had disconnected all the hard drives, USB drive would be detected as HD(0,0) and the reboot would have worked as expected.

Re: Ubuntu installation on USB pen drive- Error 17: cannot mount selected partition

jarednevans — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:04:12 -0000

It's because when I used the Ubuntu installer CDROM, during the installation, Ubuntu detected the hard drive on the computer as HD(0,0) and the USB drive as HD(1,0) and wrote grub to reflect this fact. Upon the reboot and booting directly off the USB drive, the USB drive moved to HD(0,0) hence the reason for the error above and needing to get grub updated.

Re: Twitter Updates for 2008-08-21

jarednevans — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:33:08 -0000

Are you sure you know what an Acer Aspire One is? It's not a pager. It's a netbook (a bit smaller than a laptop). Anyway, the keyboard on Acer Aspire One is great. The construction feels sturdy and the size of keys isn't too small.

Re: Cochlear implantees trapping themselves into obsoleteness?

jarednevans — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:09:27 -0000

Thanks everyone for the comments. I went out of town for a short vacation and was unable to respond to the comments until now.

It's obvious by now that I'm behind on the recent development work on cochlear implants. I remember a few years ago, I was told by others that the implanting surgery would damage the cochlear to an extent where the hair cells would be destroyed. At the time, it was also highly recommended that if a prospective CI candidate had residual hearing, it would be unethical of the doctor to recommend a CI since the residual hearing would be lost after the surgery.

I appreciate all of your comments to clarify the current state of CI technology and surgical procedures. This is a great thing having my blog on an aggregator- taking advantage of the self-correcting behavior from a swarm of Internet visitors. I typed this post out of a concern for prospective CI candidates since they may be missing out on a more natural solution to the loss of hearing.

I still stand by my belief that CIs are not the magic wand that many people make them out to be and that they are not necessary for a deaf person to have a good quality of life. It all depends on acceptance and the attitude.