February 10th, 2010 | 
It’s difficult not to respect all that Apple has achieved both as a computer company and as a consumer electronics crack dealer. They have great products and hugely loyal fans customers. Their terrific execution has allowed them to buck the trend of openness by providing what a wide swath of consumers want – [...]
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When it comes to my data, I’m a suspenders and belt kinda’ guy. It can’t be in too many places or have too many layers of security. As with investing one’s hard-earned cash, diversification is critical to success. As such, I have loads of internal backup and security methods that are part of my routine. [...] I’ve been toying with the idea of buying a netbook to use as a cross between my iPhone and my desktop. My trusty Lenovo X60s has filled that role for years, but the combination of my crack-addiction-like need for new technology combined with the allure of a netbook’s lighter weight has been my siren [...] I was an early adopter of the Terastation when it was released a few years ago. The Terastation is a pretty typical (well, now pretty typical) SOHO-type NAS that is a fairly inexpensive solution to getting loads-o-disk space on your local network. It’s not screamingly fast, but it’s got loads of features including a good [...] I mentioned that I worked for DEC to someone recently and they had no idea what I was talking about. Granted, the person was young, but he was an adult. Funny how the second largest computer company in the world in its time, and the inventor of the mini-computer could be so quickly forgotten. When I [...] I mentioned last week that I was moving this blog off of an internal server to an externally-sourced one at 1&1. Further, that I chose to use a VPS, or Virtual Private Server, for the installation. For servers that don’t require loads of disk space, CPU power or memory, a virtual server makes loads of [...] Last night, my little, obscure blog started getting attacked with spam. 24 hours later, it’s slowed a bit, but I’m still getting about 20 spam comments posted per hour. Keep in mind that there are only about 200 posts on the blog to source that number of comments. I now know where to buy all of [...] If you hadn’t already heard, CompUSA is closing 100 stores nationwide (see locations below). The list is here. Rumors had it that our local store had guys in the street with signs advertising a big sale so my son and I trekked down to the store to confirm that we are about to lose the only decent [...] About a month ago, I posted about the dizzying array (for me) of stupid technical projects I had going on at the same time. One of the projects was installing a new RAID controller as part of my server rehab. I wanted to move from a 1TB array resulting in about 780GB of disk space [...] Yesterday’s Guardian Unlimited had a very funny article by Charlie Brooker titled, “I Hate Macs.” In the article, Mr. Brooker pokes fun at the latest ad campaign by Apple in which two actors portray the human incarnations of a PC and Mac. From the article: “I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people [...] |
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