I have built quite a few computers over the last few years, both for work and personally. There are several options you have to think about. Firstly, do I want an AMD or Intel chip? I still prefer AMD for the value. Also what is the appropriate motherboard and memory? This is really dictated by [...]
Particularly over the last couple months, it seems we have seen a flurry of high profile hacking successes on the Internet. It seems to have started when Sony made folks mad by going after an individual that had jailbroken the Playstation 3. From that point there has been a plethora of gaming sites hacked or [...]
Wired has a great post titled 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know. Here are a few good ones: 20. The buzz of a dot-matrix printer 30. Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time. 70. Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for [...]
There have been a couple new search engines in the news lately. I have used both of them, and I am impressed. The first is Wolfram Alpha. This is certainly not your traditional search engine. It is more of a computational search engine. For instance, you can search for the International Space Station. It will [...]
I just wanted to post and let everyone know that I DO still exist. I have been very busy at work, and I just have not made the time to blog when I get home. Plus, nothing has really caught my fancy as of late. I am in a little bit of a slump… The [...]
I am fed up with Charter’s internet. However, in my area there is really no other option that I am aware of. I am paying Charter for a 5 Mb/s internet connection. However tonight it is just over 500 Kb/s. One TENTH of what I am paying for. When I call, however, they are no [...]
Have you ever desired to rearrange your Windows Taskbar? I know I certainly have. Well I just found a neat little program that will allow you to do this. You can also reorder you system tray and close windows in the taskbar with a middle-click on your mouse (just like tabs in IE and Firefox). [...]
According to Electronista, Japan is developing a “New Internet” that should be ready by 2020. The country’s Communications Minister Yoshihide Suga said: Japan hopes to create a world network architecture that overcomes many of the fundamental problems that affect the current Internet by introducing faster overall connections, data packets that are more likely to reach [...]
I have always said that as soon as Macs or Linux becomes mainstream, they will be able to be hacked and people will start to write viruses for them. Here is a story about just that. The article says: And my Microsoft, Windows-loving self didn’t say [hacking Macs is easy]. It was self-proclaimed Mac enthusiast [...]
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