Wednesday, January 23, 2002

>>>Doug Baron said that clock.set (tcp.getCurrentTime ()) could be used to keep my PC's clock set to the correct time, cool.  I added this line to my startup script and it works!  Thanks for sharing Doug. Can anyone tell me if there is a better place to put this?  I'm not sure if it will get overwritten the next time I update Radio.root. 11:31:23 PM

>>>Yahoo to put price on searches: I read here that one of the pricing options could be US $4.95 a month for 50 searches, this is still too much.  Here's why.  The price point for this stuff has to be low, as in under US $1.99 a month.  People will want to subscribe to a lot of these services if they provide a modest level of value, but at these higher price points they are too conscious of the price to value ratio.  Bring the price down and it will become an impulse buy and the with the cost out of the way the perceived value increases. I subscribe to fusionOne, a service that keeps my home and office copies of MS Outlook synchronized.  I love it, but the price is US $9.95 a month.  Sure, I pay the money to fusionOne, but guess what, I don't subscribe to many other services because they all want US $10 to US $15 dollars a month as well.  The cost to value ratio is just too high.  I would probably subscribe to a lot more services, Music Match Radio MX for example. Radio, at US $39.95 for the software AND one year of hosting was a no brainer. 2:26:36 AM

>>>Just making sure I didn't break my 'stripSpam' script when I bunded everything together in my new 'theCallback' script. Speaking of which, what are these things called in the common lingo of Frontier? Script, Macro, Program? [posted via email] 1:52:28 AM

>>>command received: stop vnc command status: true [posted via email] 1:48:49 AM

>>>command received: start vnc command status: true [posted via email] 1:47:40 AM

>>>Wow!  Radio is just too damn cool.  I sometimes use VNC to 'dial in' to my home computer, but I really don't like leaving VNC running because it's a security hole.  Enter Radio to the rescue.  A quick script using the launch.application() and mail-to-weblog features of Radio and I'm all set.  I can now send an email to my 'blog' account with my secret command and I can remotely start or stop the VNC service.  Thanks Userland, you guys are great! If you'd like to try one of these for yourself you can view my script here.  The two posts below show the output of the script.  I did have some trouble calling the VNC application directly, but wrapping the commands in a MS-DOS Batch script took care of the problem.  Damn, I miss Batch sometimes, hehe. 1:46:28 AM

>>>command received: stop vnc command status: true [posted via email] 1:23:10 AM

>>>command received: start vnc command status: true [posted via email] 1:20:50 AM