Open With Notepad

I'm tired of having to select which program to open a file with in Windows. Also, I'm sick of accidentally associating '.yourmother' files with Notepad. I don't want a file association -- I want Notepad!

Thanks HowToGeek.com for this solution.

G1 Review... From my perspective...

Questions:
Q. 350+ KBps or Kbps ?
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Q. Does it do 802.11?
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Q. Can you use regular headphones?
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Q. Is the bluetooth stack worth anything (i.e. can you do FTP transfers, or is it just for contacts)?
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Q. Can you watch movies on it?
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Q. Can you listen to music without the headphones? If so, does it sound good?
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Live CD Booting

I've been trying to come up with a solution to the failing hard drive problem that haunts the every-day computer user.

The first solution was a bootable USB flash drive. Pretty nice, especially if persistent data storage can be achieved.

I ran into a problem with this solution when I attempted it on an old machine that could not boot USB flash drives. This lead me to the "persistent storage" feature of Knoppix, which allowed me to boot the OS from the CD and then load the data from a flash drive. This worked well, but either I did it wrong, or I misunderstood it, because I can't get the persistent data to persist.

My next adventure led me here where I found that you could make a bootable CD which allowed you to boot from the flash drive.

That is where I am now, hopefully we can see some positive results from this one...

Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, etc.

This post is about Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, and the like.

A few weeks back I seriously considered switching back from Jaiku to Twitter.
I originally joined Twitter, and it was good.
I then switched to Jaiku because it had a location feature that I thought would be a lot cooler than it turned out to be. I thought it would allow me to update it via GPS, but it turned out that it doesn't really do a whole lot of geographical mapping at all.
I also liked the RSS feature, which allows you to import RSS feeds (like the feeds from my Picture of the Day blog). So it generates a Jaiku entry automatically when I post a picture.

The feature that I immediately missed about Twitter was the "sleep" feature. This feature allows you to tell Twitter to not send you (SMS) updates between two specific times. This means that you can tell Twitter not to send you messages from 11pm to 8am so you can sleep.

As I said before, I almost switched because it wasn't updating the SMS stuff or the feeds. Right before I switched, they fixed it all.

I still miss the "sleep" feature.

Facebook seems to be the deal breaker. (Wow, I never thought I'd say that!)
Facebook used to have a Jaiku app, but it was recently taken down. The owner/manager said that it was "the project that had the least interest, but required the most support". Facebook does have several Twitter apps, including one that allows you to update your Facebook status when you update your Twitter.

So now, if I switch back to Twitter, I can update my Twitter via SMS and it also updates my Facebook status.

Now to get all my friends on to Twitter...