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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Okay, I’m stealing this from the old MSN blog, but bite me. It’s a good post topic. I’ll see how long I can keep this up.
VMWare does virtualization on USB. Since Microsoft is upping the ubiquitous factor on virtualization, VMWare is throwing its own spin on that. They’ve introduced a public beta of ACE 2 […]
And the Search for Reliable Storage Continues…
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Unbelievable. I may have to re-evaluate how we do reviews over at InfoWorld. I originally reviewed the Iomega StorCenter and the Western-Digital NetCenter next to each other. During the two weeks when I was reviewing them, everything worked hunky-dory. I decided to do the long-term with Iomega because they had that two-disk striping layer of […]
Long Review of Lord of the Rings MMORPG
Monday, March 5th, 2007Not sure which of the Geeks Are Sexy team wrote this review, but they got DEEP into the new Lords of the Ring Shadows of Angmar online multiplayer game. Reasonable hardware requirements, thought it’s still a private beta right now.
But it’s worth a read if you’re thinking about getting into this when the beta goes […]
Beryl really is that cool
Monday, March 5th, 2007I’ve been running Beryl for a month or so on my main FC6 workstation. It really is as cool as it looks. At this point, installing it on FC6 simply requires adding the extras repo and searching for beryl in the GUI software tool or a yum install beryl-gnome or yum install beryl-kde from the […]
Cool Little Desktop Support Gadget
Monday, March 5th, 2007Did a quickie on this for SMB IT. Had to fall back onto it during the StorCenter-where’s-all-my-data crisis. It’s basically a Windows-to-Windows USB 2.0 file transfer utility all wrapped up in hardware.
The device coils a double-ended USB cable. Plug one into PC A and the other into PC B. The file transfer utility is embedded […]
The Danger of Shared Disk Complacency
Sunday, March 4th, 2007I did a review of Iomega’s 500GB StorCenter network hard disk for InfoWorld a while back. Good review for a typical 3-week review period. Nice solid case, two 500GB hard disks in RAID 0, 10/100 Ethernet and a USB out for printer sharing, an additional hard disk or some kind of other backup device. I […]
Oops. WordPress got 0wned.
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007I neglected to cvsup the server NOTN runs on before installing WordPress yesterday when I built this blog. Thus, this blog is running on 2.1, not 2.1.1. It looks like that was a good move. At least they caught it quickly, but 10 days of backdoored downloads stings a bit.
I just cvsup’d the server, and […]
On LiveJournal, Dell CSRs find YOU
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007Who says Dell’s customer service is bad? Apparently, they’re trolling LiveJournal, posting comments offering advice (it’s near the bottom of the page). There used to be a prior comment in there about possible fixes, also from Neil. Wonder where that went? Also, the email address is curious. Either way, there’s a good dig on Paris […]
No, Dad, it’s the triangle button
Friday, March 2nd, 2007Sometimes, I seriously think I’m adopted. In order to help my otherwise extremely intelligent father navigate the godforsaken waters of TV/DVD control, I got him a Logitech Harmony 550 remote to go with his new Samsung LCD HDTV and DVD player. It took him three years to master the TiVo remote, but I figured that […]
InfoWorld LIVE! Episode 6: What Technology Entrepreneurs Are Facing Today
Friday, March 2nd, 2007I’ve been doing an Internet radio show pilot project for the last few weeks with the folks at MyTechnologyLawyer.com (good site if you’re a small tech biz, by the way). InfoWorld allowed us to use the name and is still backing the project, though we’ve got to get on the stick and suck in some […]
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