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Entrecard.com 2008-09-14 20:47:09 I signed up for Entrecard.com yesterday. See the link on the right. I’ve been looking around the site including many blogs that are part of the network and I have some interesting observations. Most notably, I see a lot of blogs that are poorly written - mainly just filling words like they were after some [...]
Google EULA on Chrome 2008-09-14 13:05:00 I saw this a few places, but a good writeup about it on Veritablelife blog. I wrote a previous post about the things I liked and disliked about the browser, and this has to top the list of dislikes. I think that the EULA is completely unenforceable, however I am not a lawyer and I [...]
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, Google
Fire your boss 2008-09-14 11:30:02 Saw this fire your boss article over on PBS. It looks like it got slashdotted as well and probably has been discussed to death there. One thing I’m quite glad for in my current job is a good chain of command that understands IT - especially my more immediate ones, and I can’t say one [...]
Dell Mini 9 Unboxed 2008-09-13 21:24:54 I just watched the video over on Gadgetspot of Dell’s new UMPC being unboxed. It looks like less packing than Dell normally uses, which is a good thing, and I think due to the fact that they aren’t offering any options with the Mini like an external monitor, docking stand, etc. Things that would normally [...]
Microsoft’s Second Ad 2008-09-12 13:47:42 Here is Microsoft
’s second ad.
At 4 and a half minutes it runs a little long. Again it leaves me scratching my head and saying why. There was a brief reference to Bill Gates “connecting” a billion people, but otherwise it was just about connecting to normal people. This may be my last entry on the [...]
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Important People 2008-09-11 20:09:33 The past few days I went to work I managed to get right behind someone who thought they were important. Probably most of us in the techie community have some kind of security at the front gate where we work, assuming we work at a corporation. These gates are typically controlled by a proximity badge [...]
Noscript - Essential browser tools 2008-09-11 19:29:35 Noscript is one of my essential browser
tools. What it does is intercept java, flash, and other script including executable content on a Firefox browser and keeps it from executing until the user specifically whitelists the site. It can be an inconvenience to someone who doesn’t understand the dangers that exist on the Internet, however [...]
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The falling prices of storage 2008-09-10 19:33:49 This looks like the best deal I have seen yet on a massive amount of consumer level external storage
. 2 TB in a single externally connected box for $370 courtesy of Newegg my favorite vendor. Of course you need to run RAID 0 to make use of all that space, which i don’t think makes [...]
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Boxed Internet 2008-09-10 18:50:44 I recently wrote an article about computers and toasters where I disagree with a common philosophy that says people want appliances rather than computers. I saw another article down a similar vein today talking about how people seem to think that we, the consumer, want a boxed Internet
as well. The article is called the [...]
Patching 2008-10-19 13:25:24 We just had patch Tuesday last week, so typically today would be the day when all the Windows servers are patched and rebooted. Due to a visit by a dignitary early next week a decision was made by people outside of IT to postpone patching until the following weekend. Is this a legitimate reason to [...]
Roundup 2008-10-16 07:06:01 I have a few small topics that I’d like to mention that aren’t big enough for their own post yet.
The presidential debate and DirecTV
Am I the only one who has glitches throughout the broadcast? Pieces of their words are missing as the system seems to lose the stream and has to rebuild it. Then near [...]
Debian Lenny Delayed and a Brief Review of My Linux Experiences 2008-10-13 21:12:10 I was getting excited about the imminent release of Debian
Lenny, but it has been delayed again. There are some 200 outstanding release critical bugs left to squash before it can be released. I appreciate the thoroughness put into Debian releases, which is why I use it myself. Some flavors I’ve used are as follows: [...]
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, Linux
Credit Crunch 2008-10-12 17:18:21 I do not want to comment much about the credit crunch except as it influences technology. I wanted to bring a warning to people who use Vonage about something from my personal experience with VoIP. SunRocket went out of business suddenly and without warning leaving me and thosands of other people without service including 911. [...]
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, Crunch
Keep Your Tech Job 2008-10-12 07:00:07 There is an article on eWeek about how to keep your tech job. There is some good advice if you happen to be working in the IT industry. Many of the ideas center around saving money for your business. The thing is that not every business is doing poorly. Saving money should always be a [...]
NVidia Failing 2008-10-11 10:19:06 It is sad really. NVidia has always been my favorite graphics manufacturer. After some issues I had with ATI years ago, and ATI’s lack of solid Linux drivers for many years, I have been a real NVidia fan. Unfortunately it seems like they are experiencing wide spread failures and there is no solid reason described. [...]
World Bank Hacked 2008-10-10 16:43:13 There is an article on Fox News about the World
Bank being hacked. This leads me to the obvious question - is this related in any way, even to a small degree, to the current world financial crisis? If someone had inside information on market movements or confidential economic data on a global scale and [...]
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, World Bank
Quantum 2008-10-09 23:01:35 The latest techie buzz word seems to be the word Quantum. It is the end-all-be-all of computer technology, the savior of the computing universe. Right.
“Quantum” is used to define the momentum, state, and energy of the elementary particles of an atom, or basically any subatomic particle. It seems like every day someone comes out with [...]
Battery Technology 2008-10-07 07:00:59 Battery technology is possibly one of the hottest areas of research today, at least in terms of practical application. The three most influencial sources for demand are electric cars, laptops, and cellphone/media player/gadgets. I group the last together because there is little significant difference between them as far as battery technology goes. The cellphone, media [...]
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DirecTV Lockups 2008-10-06 18:24:33 It seems that almost all the DirecTV
HD DVR boxes locked up sometime last night. The only semi-official information I can find on the subject is from the Satelliteguys forum. I went through DirecTV’s site and was not able to find any official information although their Tech forums have some complaining on them.
DirecTV says that [...]
An easy way to help protect yourself and your family on the Internet 2008-10-06 07:00:36 OpenDNS is an easy way to help protect you and your family on the Internet
. Before you get turned off by something technical, let me assure you that you can make this simple change no matter what your technical expertise, and it will cost you nothing. If you have just one computer connected to the [...]
To err is human.. 2008-10-05 09:29:08 To backup Divine!
Good thing I back up my sites every night. Yesterday with one fell swoop I wiped out every one of my MySQL databases, and had to restore from last night’s backup. Fortunately this happened early in the morning and there was little lost. My wife lost some comments and I lost some configuration [...]
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The nature of an IT worker 2008-10-03 16:38:16 I receive so many eWeek emails that it isn’t funny, and most of the time I have to just delete them because I don’t have time to even open them let alone read them. Recently however a headline What Is the Nature of an IT Worker? caught my eye. The article discusses, very briefly, a [...]
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The Volt and NASCAR 2008-10-01 23:06:11 I saw an article on CNN today called NASCAR
, meet the electric Chevy Volt. I have been watching the Volt story unfold and am very excited about it. I couldn’t wait, however, so I just swapped my 24MPG car for something that gets 36MPG. Some highlights from the article include, as I had hoped, an [...]
Oooh, I want to create a new OS too! 2008-09-29 19:10:00 Saw this article over on Engadget where HP thinks that changing the interface on Linux is equivalent to writing an OS. Original article with more details is at Businesweek.
Just want to clarify something here. RedHat is not an operating system. SuSE is not an operating system. Linux is an operating system. BSD is an operating [...]
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Incoming search strings 2008-09-29 10:05:56 Even though this blog is fairly new, I’ve seen some interesting incoming search strings
. Do any of my blogging visitors ever look at theirs? Let me answer some questions that I know people who have been here recently have been looking for.
Yes, it is possible to get caught breaking into someone else’s email account. You [...]
Entrecard Blues 2008-09-29 00:57:44 I haven’t been blogging about Entrecard or blogging because it really isn’t the type of thing I want my blog to be about, however I do use Entrecard to help bring in readers with the hope that some of them will stick around. Recently the owner decided to try to get VC money, then decided [...]
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Digital TV: What it means to you 2008-09-28 18:28:30 Probably nothing.
I get this question all the time. People went to Wal-Mart and saw a DTV converter box and wonder if they are going to have to get it to continue watching TV. They know I’m a geek so instead of buying it they ask me. Those are the smart ones. I know of several [...]
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