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Learning the shell

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Why bother?
Why do you need to learn the command line anyway? Well, let me tell you a story. Not long ago we had a problem where I used to work. There was a shared drive on one of our file servers that kept getting full. I won’t mention that this legacy operating system did not [...]

Dead spy satellite falling from orbit - could hit Earth in late February or March

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

 
You’d hope contingency plans were in place. Wouldn’t you.
And heck I was worried about dying from old age, First a plane parts fall from the skies and kill some poor customer in a car dealership and now spy satellites are falling when will all the falling stop. Maybe Chicken Little was right after all. [...]

You Sucjk at Photoshop

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Hilarious! …and educational, though I wish it was gimp. LOL
There’s four of them, this is #1

YouTube Link
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Examining the One Laptop Per Child XOs

Friday, January 25th, 2008

I have been asked to review the XO computers from the One Laptop Per Child project. This is the first in a series of blog posts about my experiences, as well as those of some children with whom I will be working. I could easily gush over it or complain about how small the keyboard [...]

Mike Huckabee congratulates Canada on its "national igloo"

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

 
Mike Huckabee may have won the Iowa primary, but does he really think that Canada’s Parliament resides in a “national igloo?” Rick Mercer’s comedic Canadian TV show “Talking to Americans” (asking people on the streets of US cities nonsensical questions about Canada to see if they call shenanigans or whether they become genuinely alarmed at [...]

Tropical Canada…

Monday, December 10th, 2007

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Bubble 2.0 The Video

Friday, December 7th, 2007

hahaha Love this video!!

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Unusual Data Disaster Horror Stories

Friday, December 7th, 2007

I found this over on Slashdot and just had to post it, after all I thought that I had some the wackiest customers in the world, guess I was wrong, Baldy 
Lucas123 writes “Computerworld has posted stories from a disaster recovery company that include a scientist who drilled into his hard drive in order to pour [...]

Cult Watch 2007: Who’s Drinking the Kool-Aid?

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

As we wind down another year in technology, it’s a good time to check in on the cults and see how they’re doing.
For companies who inspire them, user cults are nice because they motivate customers to overlook strategic blunders, exaggerate product successes and — most importantly — walk the earth “virally” marketing products without pay. [...]

Don’t Give Up on Vista…

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

~LC
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