Category Archives for Computers
Super expensive hard drives & some cool price trackers
I was searching Amazon for reviews of the Synology 4-bay Network Attached Storage devices and noticed that hard drive prices were very high. Remembering that floods in Thailand in October may have contributed to this, I found this article, Hard … Continue reading
Experience with 1Password
Around Thanksgiving we bought a family license for 1Password when there was a special discount. I had previously kept track of my passwords on a password protected iPhone app and had an encrypted text file on my computer for backup. … Continue reading
Atrix 4G Phone
Can the Atrix 4G really become your next PC? You know that advertisement where you see the guy trying to explain to airport security if his phone is a computer or a phone or both? Visit the above link to … Continue reading
Prank Research Papers
Sometimes jargon really is gibberish. Take the “scientific” papers generated by a computer program and submitted by three MIT computer science students to a scientific conference. One of the papers, “Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points … Continue reading
Shoe Circus Microsoft Video
Here is Microsoft’s attempt to compete with Apple in advertising. It is kind of funny in the sense of a what-the-heck-is-going-on thing. It is hard to tell if anything is actually advertised. The trick is to wait until the end … Continue reading
Comments by Cooper…
jerryleecooper, that is. Mr. Cooper is a frequent poster and proponent of Microsoft Vista on the ZDNet forums. He has quite a cult following for his often hilarious comments regarding Linux. I’ll be posting some of these ZDNet forum comments … Continue reading
Upgrading from Vista to XP
I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP, and this afternoon I will be doing the same to my laptop. Follow the link to read more of the very … Continue reading
Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself
While Vista was originally touted by Microsoft as the operating system savior we’ve all been waiting for, it has turned out to be one of the biggest blunders in technology. With a host of issues that are inexcusable and features … Continue reading
Switch to Mac
Here’s the obligatory “switch to Mac” post by none other than Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks: Once you go Mac And he even just recently did a commercial for HP!
5 Hours to Install Windows XP!!
Yesterday it took me about 5 hours to install Windows XP! The basis of the story is that I have an old (but still pretty fast) Toshiba laptop (5105-S607 for those interested). I had been running Linux on it until … Continue reading