Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Monday, December 13th, 2010
The most interesting thing about the recent WikiLeaks episode with stolen US diplomatic cables is not WikiLeaks itself, rather it is the integral role that newspaper partners have and are playing in this particular scenario. Yes, there are a ton of cables but most citizens do not have the interest, ...
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
With a slew of hijacked and compromised Gmail accounts from people I know, I started thinking about an easy way to protect yourself from it. I did come up with a free but not so simple solution:
1. Sign up for the free Google Apps for Domain package.
2. Create a special ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Just a strange problem I ran into recently with a client. They were using a Windows XP computer with multiple USB devices. Somewhere after about 300 inserts and removes, Windows gave the following error message
The system has reached the maxium size allowed for the system part of the registry. Additional ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Google announced today changes to their fee structure for Google Checkout. The new fees bring their service in line with Amazon Payments and Paypal as seen in the chart below:
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Over the past year or two, there has been a movement in technology circles to move more and more applications, including desktop ones, to the cloud - i.e. servers running remotely and accessible via the web browser. Some have gone as far as stating that the desktop is dead and ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
About six months ago, my trusty Sony VAIO laptop died - a victim of the infamous DC power jack problem. I ended up building a new desktop (AMD X2 5000, 2 GB of RAM, two hard drives in RAID configuration, lots of fans). In the process, I also took the ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
In one sentence:
Provide an easy to use tool that solves a persistent problem.
That was my experience recently with a backup solution for Linux - while there were many open source and free tools out there, a commercial easy to use tool with a low cost was the one that one ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
This past Friday a major 2 1/2 hour outage of Amazon web services hit the Internet. The blogs were abuzz with the gory details but the resounding scheme has been that it is not reliable enough yet. Being an Amazon AWS user as well as many others who visit their ...
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Someone told me recently that some local thiefs have begun to use computers to try detecting which houses have Wifi networks before deciding to break in. The ones with Wifi networks are assumed to have a computer and are robbed first.
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
As seen in the comments of my previous posts and here, Sitemeter decided to respond. Two points:
1. Why wait for over a week before a response? Blogs are there for a reason - its gives companies ability to respond quickly.
2. Why not post about it on their own blog?
Setting that ...
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