Subject: Software

• Give Me (Bomb) Shelter

  I get by with a little help from my friends. Got a note from one of 'em today, in fact, a patriot hard at work supporting our troops. [Dear Navy Customer], On Friday we discussed pushing the Dev. updates from February to the [Server of Imminent Doom]. As you know, these updates broke the Dev. server last February which makes the outcome of any Live push questionable. Per your request, I had planned to make the updates tomorrow (Tuesday). Since the tape backup isn't working at the moment, we (yo

  July 24, 2006

• Fun with Computers (Friggatriskaidekaphobia edition)

  If your plan for getting your taxes done before the looming deadline involves using Turbo Tax's online service, you may want to reconsider. According to NBC 4 in Washington D.C., a customer wanting to check her tax info Turbo-ly, discovered something big and bad by accident. ""I knew immediately how big this was," she said. "This is very, very bad."" A Turbo Tax customer herself, the woman attempted to access some past filings and the route she took online opened returns for several others w

  April 13, 2007

• Insta-Feedback to the New Website

  The names have been withheld to protect our incense. Your Favorite Time-Waster's answers--not that anyone asked for them--appear in groovy italics: Where did the link to the personals.ocweekly go on the home page? http://personals.ocweekly.com With the new website format instituted today, WHAT HAPPENED to ARCHIVES? I fail to find the earlier "Ask A Mexican" colums. Not happy about that! The suits--if an alt.-weekly's suits can be called suits--decided it was better to get the site up now c

  December 20, 2005

• More Website Feedback

  What happened to your classified ads? (Upper right-hand side of home page, yellow box, says Get Stuff! You can click on tabs for Real Estate, Autos, Jobs, Adult) I can't find Letters to the Editor, archives, or the Film Review bank on your new site. Where have these features gone? Two places for letters: At the top of the page, under the OC Weekly logo, you'll see HOME, NEWS, COLUMNS, etc. going across the page. If you move your cursor over COLUMNS, a drop-down menu will appear with our most

  December 27, 2005

• Graveyard shift at the Times' OC plant, anyone?

  If your dream job involves working 7:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. or 11:00 p.m. to 7:30 a.m., has the Los Angeles Times got something for you! Get Informed about a company built on courage, achievement and creativity. A company that’s part of the most dynamic industry in the world – media! The Los Angeles Times is much more than just the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the country. We strive to be the definitive source of news and information for Californians - in print and online. Our ev

  November 19, 2007

• Because You're Ugly: Panty liner-thin MacBook Air

  "What the hell? Some femme pads are thicker!" Dunno about you, but my friends and I are still staring with dropped jaws at the piece of tech candy Steve Jobs unveiled at Macworld 2008 yesterday. Those Apple folks somehow stuffed an 80GB hard drive into this baby, and though they had to sacrifice an optical drive, made it such that software could be installed via a nearby Mac or PC with Wi-Fi. If you're curious to see how that works, check out this demo. Leave it to Apple to make all our lapt

  January 16, 2008

• Pardon Our Digital Dust

  So our website has changed quite a bit. Many of the differences are intentional. Some of the others are, um, not. If you're having problems using our online article archive search feature, or if you click through on a link and it takes you nowhere, it's not you. It's us. Our crack development team is making numerous improvements to the look and functionality of the site—but it's still a work in progress. Sorry for the inconvenience. We hope to have everything sorted out—better, stronger, f

  August 22, 2008

• Plating Sylvia Plath

  July 29, 1999

• Bandwidth on the Run

  March 9, 2000

• The Wire: Haidl and Carona Caught on Tape

  Today at ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona's federal corruption trial, prosecutor Brett Sagel introduced the following inflammatory excerpt of a secretly recorded July 7, 2007, conversation between then-Sheriff Carona and Don Haidl, who had served as assistant sheriff. At the time of the conversation, Carona knew that the FBI was investigating him on suspicion of public corruption. What he didn't know was that Haidl, his longtime pal and the alleged source of a large amount of bribes, had a

  November 6, 2008

• [Aural Reports] Carlos Alvaro Jacobo Plays Mix-and-Match in OC Dance Clubs

  September 25, 2008

• Is Latest UCI Virtual World Study Grant 'Waste' or Boon for Business?

  Here we go again. The 49-page report "2008: Worst Waste of the Year," which U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) compiled to expose examples of "outrageous federal spending," included the National Science Foundation (NSF) having given UC Irvine a $100,000 grant to study the differences in how gamers from the U.S. and China play the popular online video game World of Warcraft. Well, UCI just announced it has received a new $3 million grant from

  February 17, 2009

• Get your FREE Coachella App for your iPhone [Correction]

  Correction: Before you read further, the video and description of the Coachella iPhone App below is NOT THE FREE ONE. This program is not affiliated with the festival. The FREE App, written by Dave Bullock has a few specific differences:1) The official Coachella App is FREE, the program below costs money :(2) The FREE app allows you to download photos to www.coachella.com before and after the festival3) The free app has a friend finder that allows you to see your friends locations on a map aroun

  April 8, 2009

• The Tech/Art Installations at the UCI Beall Center Reveal Ghosts In the Machine

  January 29, 2009

• Crazy Diamonds

  November 20, 2008

• [Trendzilla] Purikura (a.k.a. Giant Expensive Japanese Photo Booths)

  November 6, 2008

• Aural Reports

  Debutante Squall: Millionaires' naughty intentions and catchy electro pay dividends

  January 10, 2008

• Wax-scratch Fever

  FEEDBACK: The analog-digital wars rage on as OC DJs debate their weapons of choice

  November 15, 2007

• Internet Appleiance

  August 19, 1999

• Boredom Is Exciting

  May 20, 1999

• Outgrowing Tom

  Bugged by MySpaces clutter and limitations, some musicians are turning to smaller, artist-friendly alternatives

  May 24, 2007

• Orchestre Surreal

  Cerritos Center

  April 16, 2009

• The Englishman Who Went Up the 405 but Came Down a Screenwriter

  OCs Chris Billett goes from writing code to writing about cadavers

  November 16, 2006

• Fire Bomb

  February 9, 2006

• 'What's Hotter Than Fire?!'

  May 19, 2005

• The Tweakings of the Decent

  March 3, 2005

• Stalking for Dummies

  February 24, 2005

• Geek My Mail

  September 16, 2004

• Award of the State

  December 11, 2003

• The Danger of Google History in a Time of War

  March 27, 2003

• The Revolution Will Not Be Digitized

  May 23, 2002

• By Any Means Necessary

  July 19, 2001

• Im Going to Get You

  November 23, 2000

• Burning Sensation

  September 28, 2000

• Filtering Flip-Flop?

  October 5, 2000

• Game On!

  March 23, 2000

• Making Copies

  February 3, 2000

• Extreme Holiday Gift Guide

  December 16, 1999

• Y2K Ready, Set, Doh!

  June 24, 1999

• Bombay Breakdown

  April 29, 1999

• Sequelitis Hits Gaming!

  March 18, 1999

• The Jesus Virus

  March 11, 1999

• Non-Windows Users of the World, Unite!

  February 11, 1999

• The Year in Cyberspace

  January 7, 1999

• Millennium Plan Madness

  December 24, 1998

• X-Stopped

  December 17, 1998

• Welcome to Virtual U

  September 10, 1998

• Shut Up, Again

  March 5, 1998

• Welcome to Agrestic, errrrr, Orange County

   When did Showtime's Weeds, which is set in Valencia or Calabasas or Santa Clarita or Stevenson Ranch or Gorman or wherever the hell it is, spring up in Orange County? It's sure seeming very Agrestic-like based on two police incidents mere hours apart Wednesday.First, cops started going door-to-door in the 1100 block of East First Street in Tustin because someone had called saying marijuana was being grown and sold in the area. The odor led officers to a particular home around 9 a.m., and w

  July 23, 2009

• Dance Music Pick of the Week: Joris Voorn at Code

  Krijin van Noordwijk​Once every few years a game-changing album will accelerate the evolution of electronic dance music. The Prodigy added punk rock aggression to the scene in 1992 (Experience), the Chemical Brothers became the Beatles of club-land in 1995 (Exit Planet Dust) and Moby introduced the world to the tuneful, down-tempo side of e-music in 1999 (Play). In the '00s, much of the progression happened behind the scenes and in studios where technology forged new ways of layering, mixing a

  October 8, 2009