Unless you are a hardcore gamer or graphic designer its hard to justify spending $2000 dollars on a computer anymore. Just 10 years ago when I started college, the computer I took to school was a $2000 beast with 64MB of RAM and a 500Mhz AMD processor. On the other hand, I bought my current [...]
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My wife hates using my laptop. There is a password to login, a password for my wireless network (both home and work), I never save any of my passwords in the browser and you need another just to be able to use my linux shell (which she would never touch anyway). Why all this security? [...]
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Update: It seems they give them up after a few days, but if you want the domain right then your stuck waiting them out or paying them. I rarely post about something from another site without putting my own spin on things but in this case I just wanted to get the word out. From [...]
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I remembered how infrequently I click the “Stumble!” button in my toolbar so today I decided to give it a few clicks. The first few stumbles were big losers but I persisted; I knew that eventually I would hit pay-dirt. In a twist of irony I came across IloveJackDaniels.com (I don’t drink). The site has [...]
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The holidays, coupled with working in the customer-pleasing side of the computer industry and having a family has left little time to write over the past few weeks. I started about 10 posts that are sitting as “drafts” that I hope to complete soon. Upcoming I am going to discuss open-source vs. closed-source software; some [...]
