technology, internet oddities & other random stuff
Windows
It looks like my data snuck up into the cloud without telling me…
Feb 1st
I bought a new laptop recently. This isn’t my first PC upgrade. I think I’m on my 9th laptop at this stage. It’s always been a dreadful chore, exporting, packaging, burning, installing, copying, saving, importing and then configuring everything. it used to take a solid weekend before I was 100% comfortable. This time around was very disconcerting. I basically switched on my new laptop, installed a few tools, entered my MS Office license key and I was pretty much good to go.
Because my current work style is very fluid, where I hop between my office and home PCs, a laptop, More >
The shame…..
Sep 17th
I’ve tried to make sure the rugrats have a head-start when it comes to computers. #1 son has been playing with my PCs since he was 4 and has had his own PC since he was 8. Herself is inheriting a PC this year also. Pierce likes websites like howstuffworks.com and wikipedia.org but games are his thing, obviously. This isn’t such a bad thing because I’ve been known to indulge in virtual mindless violence from time to time myself.
One of our favourites is Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. It’s a strategy game set in the distant future. You build and control an More >
Intel 64 bit CPUs and Debian
Apr 7th
I’m repurposing an old-ish Dell PowerEdge 850 as a VMware Server development & test box at the moment. It’ll be replacing an even older PowerEdge SC400 (where “SC” stands for “super cheap”). It was running Windows 2003 Web Edition quite happily, but I’d rather stick a stripped out Linux distro on it to get the last bit of performance out of it.
The server originally came practically free with some disk arrays we bought a while back so I wasn’t expecting the best, but was still slightly peeved when I saw it only had a CD-ROM drive, so my copious quantities More >
I’m back to using FeedDemon
Mar 21st
Like many I read a lot of web sites. Back in the day almost the first thing I did every morning when I sat at my PC was go in turn to The Register, Slashdot, Dilbert, ENN, BBC News, ZDNet and about a dozen more to get my daily fix.
RSS was a lifesaver for me. I went out and bought FeedDemon and for a time I was happy. It would fetch all the headlines for me and display them in a list. I could click on the ones that interested me and they’d open up in the built-in browser, and I could More >
Leaf Networks: Quick ‘n Easy VPNs
Oct 30th
Setting up a VPN isn’t usually for the faint of heart. You usually need to buy (expensive) hardware and you need your IT guy to set everything up. They’re awkward to change, and they can be fragile, especially if firewalls get in the way. Leaf Networks have introduced a free, easy peer-to-peer VPN service that is no more complex to set up than an IM client. You install the software, add “buddies”, and select what you want to share, and their software takes care of all the communication and security. Nice!
From Web Worker Daily
