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Cheap Power Adapter for ASUS Eee PC

Source: WikipediaI caught on the ASUS Eee PC bug a few months ago and bought one for myself but it was annoying to have to carry the power adapter to work everyday because it reduced the portability of the device. However, I looked everywhere for a decent power adapter that would work on the Eee PC. It uses a very weird 9.5V 2.5A draw which is uncommon and not found in most universal adapters. Car adapters work and they are cheap but the amperage is hard to get in 12 v cigarette adapters for the home. The best I could do with a universal adapter was 9V and 1000mA The EeePC would power up on the adapter but it kept switching between charging the battery and on battery power every second.

Then one of my co-workers found AllElectronics.com and we found an adapter that works. It was $17 shipped and it works just fine on my EeePC. The model number is PS-930 and you can buy it here. It is a 9V adapter wth a 3A draw and it performs wonderfully. Hope this helps someone.

Custom WordPress database error pages

Custom WordPress database error pages: This is an interesting article on how to setup WordPress to display custom database error pages and even send out an email to the owner of the blog in case of database failure.

This means that should your database fail, and someone would open your front page at example.com, he would be served that error page with a 200 OK header. If that someone were a search engine, that’s what it would index… If the search engine encounters a 500 error, it will not index that page and just wait for your server to be fixed again. That means not making sure it sends a 500 header is a huge risk.

I am really loving Safari for Windows

Source: WikipediaI never thought that this would be the case but I am really enjoying Safari for Windows. Customization was really simple as should be expected but the speeds are astounding. Safari seems to render visibly faster that any of the three other browsers that I was running (IE, FF, Opera). The only drawback is that I do not have access to the various extensions that Firefox offers, many of which I have gotten quite used to. I guess that is the switching cost that Apple is going to have to bare. I have not looked into it but I wonder if Safari has a similar pluggable interface or has any tools in development that would allow for FF extensions to be imported into Safari and used with some compatibility.

In the related articles below are links that explain the recent changes in the Safari license that *now* allows Windows computers to run Safari.