Category: Tech Stuff
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WordPress Upgrade
I’ve upgraded to the newest version of WordPress. It was relatively easy. Let me know if you notice any bugs in the site. It took a little longer because I had to figure out which FTP software to use since I’m on Ubuntu. gFTP looked like the program I should use, but FileZilla turned out…
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Ubuntu 7.10 – Gutsy Gibbon
OK, so I have spent the last week strictly using Ubuntu at home. It has been quite nice learning my way through the installation and configuration. I’ve gotten the advanced desktop working – you’ve probably seen the videos online of people using it and having a cube of desktops to spin through. I’ve got DVD…
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175,000,000 Listeners
A guy (we’ll call him L) at work today was talking during lunch about Howard Stern. He made the statement that Howard Stern got as rich as he is because he is the highest rated talk show host in the country. I objected to his claim, and he retaliated by claiming that Howard Stern has…
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Cheap Laptop
Asus is apparently building a laptop that will be cheap and make computer ownership as low as $200. This laptop looks like a good deal. It’s known as the EeePC and it should be available this fall. It will have a 4GB flash hard drive and 512MB of RAM. With 802.11g wireless card installed as…
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iPod Hard Drive Replacement
I recently had the misfortune of losing the hard drive in my iPod. It was about 1 year and two weeks old, so the warranty was expired when it first started giving me problems. I ran some hard drive utilities, such as SpinRite, and got it back in good enough shape to work. Then it…
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Online Television Shows
News Corp. and NBC Universal have signed a deal to create a web site, or ‘YouTube Killer’, that they will use to allow users to view selected television shows free of charge. This is one step I have been looking forward to for some time. They have already posted a number of television shows that…
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Blurb
I saw a video podcast today that had a short segment about the site blurb.com. This site provides software called BookSmart to download and install on your computer. BookSmart will allow you to create a book in a number of different sizes. Once you have finished creating your book, you can actually have it published and printed in…
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I Have a New Phone Number
But you can’t have it… call me here…
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Vista Update
Vista’s got a lot of bugs. If you have a computer that’s less than 2 years old and you’ve been contemplating the “upgrade”, I wouldn’t do it. The major problem right now is not entirely Microsoft’s fault, but as normally happens with any Microsoft update, there are many driver issues right now. That is caused primarily…
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A Full Week of Technology
This week has been full of technology announcements. Hitachi announced that they will be releasing a 1 Terabyte hard drive by the end of this quarter for $399.00. The price is just over half of what most people expected the first Terabyte drive to be. Apple introduced the much anticipated iPhone (name might be changed…