Archive for 'Geek Stuff'

Why So Much Difficulty Outlook?

8 January 2009

OK, so today I’m taking a break from the world of Linux to focus on the world of Windows. Windows 7 to be exact, which now lives on my Toshiba L305 alongside Ubuntu (dual-boot). I’m putting 7 through the paces which for me means installing Office 2007 and setting up Outlook 2007. I have a […]

TinyUrl Oddities

20 December 2008

OK, so I’m not the most normal person in the world, but today while surfing around I think I found some people who are weirder than I.
You see there’s this service called TinyURL.com that will take insanely long URL addresses and create shortcut URLs that are easily transmitted. They also allow you to ‘pick’ […]

Take The Internet With You When You Go!

24 May 2008

About a year ago, I switched from Direcway Broadband Satellite internet to a Sprint EVDO Rev A card for my home internet service. The choice was easy – the Sprint card was cheaper and had better speeds overall than the satellite. For awhile, I put my broadband card into a spare computer and had it […]

Device Change Again!

20 October 2007

OK, this may be a new record. 24 hours using the Dash! But I have a good excuse - it was in a soft-reset loop…. now how did that happen?
Well, this afternoon I was a busy beaver loading up a bunch of software on Dashy because I wanted This Today Screen. And ya know what? […]

I Was Tagged!

25 September 2007

Talk about being out of the loop! Nearly 10 months ago, Doug over at Just Another Mobile Monday, Tagged Me! In this wonderful virtual-tag game, you give 5 little known facts about yourself, and then tag 5 other people. So since I’m already tardy, I’ll get straight to the facts!
1. I’m a closet Star Trek: […]

Master Geekiness

24 April 2007

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OK, so they aren’t all flat panels, but thanks to Synergy (Some quite cool open-source software I heard about on PPCT), I now have my gaming PC (far right), laptop, and secondary monitor (extended from the laptop) all on one keyboard/mouse. Quite cool.

Does Spam Work?

9 April 2007

One of the most annoying plagues to hit the Internet in the past few years (aside from angst-ridden teenagers on MySpace, YouTube, etc…) is unsolicited commercial email advertising (i.e. SPAM). One argument I hear made time and time again is that the reason SPAM persists is that it works. People actually buy things as a […]

Amazing Virtual Machines

2 April 2007

I just set up a new Virtual Machine and am still amazed by this technology. I don’t know why, but I love the idea of hosting multiple OS’s off of one physical set of hardware. The inner geek in me really thrives on this kinda stuff!
Oh yea, less than 24 hrs to Thesis Defense…