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Archive for the 'Computers' Category

27
Jul

100 Things Your Kids May Never Know

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 everyone to listen [...]

02
Jun

New Search Engines

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 [...]

25
Mar

Busy…

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 basketball [...]

29
Jan

Charter is Awful

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 [...]

31
Aug

Rearranging Your Windows Taskbar

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 [...]

23
Aug

Japan Developing "New Internet"

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 their [...]

14
Aug

Macs Can Be Hacked

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 and [...]

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