Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Tonight I’m playing with the MSI Wind, which is a netbook for those of you that don’t keep up with that sort of stuff. I need to figure out if these cheap little suckers are useful for the library, plus since they are the newest portable tech fad, ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
I don't like it when things don't work right. On the plus side, seems like it's affecting just about everyone, and not just me. Yay for that.
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
I'm a little weirded out (which is admittedly easy to do) about the guy who the file system I often use on my Linux installations was just convicted of murder. It makes for an interesting nerd story, though.
Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder
Hans was deeply involved in Linux ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
I was just about to restart my desktop Windows box here at home, and realized I have not restarted it since November 19. That's not even close to the best in terms of systems I operate and uptime, but it's nice to know that this system is stable enough that ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
This commercial just about made me cry for the poor guy. Reminds me of the days when our WatchGuard firewall used to freeze up all the time.
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
I remember my Commodore 64, hooked up to a little black and white TV. I used to play the Zork games, Chopper and the original Maniac Mansion. I used to try to use GeoWorks, but I couldn't ever get much to work on it. It was like Windows for Commodore. ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
I don't think I've read an article that "speaks" to me so well in a very long time.
Meet Your Future Employee
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
So in the past week, I've had two hardware failures on two servers at work, a minor and a major network outage at work, and tonight, even my Charter Internet flaked out on me (for the fourth or fifth time now in the past month and a half, really starting ...
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
The purpose of this article was to point out that there was a "version" of Google Street View in 1907 using photos, but what caught my eye was the example they used. I'm sure you will, too.
Google Street View, the 1907 version | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
Oh, and ...
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
It's nerdy, and it doesn't work great everywhere, but you do have to like Broadband Access, especially when you're at Firestone waiting for them to finish changing the oil on your car.
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