On January 29th 2009 I bought a new laptop. My old laptop (Dell E1405) was showing it’s age (3 years old). The battery was broken and only lasting 5 minutes but the processing power still performed well for my daily tasks. It had an Intel Core Duo T2300 (1.6ghz) processor and 2.5gb of DDR2. I biggest complaints on the E1405 was the screen and the battery. The 14.1″ screen displayed colors horribly.
Monthly Archives: February 2009 - Page 2
Final Thoughts on Google
Posted by Eric Shull
on February 17, 2009
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The firestorm around Google seems to be dying down quite a bit. Here’s an article written a couple weeks ago during the frenzy about Google and their big ideas. The author has some interesting points about what constitutes a big idea and what does not. Whether or not Google will continue to succeed is an open question, but suffice it to say, the ‘me-too’ style of business growth is usually not overwhelmingly successful.
Remove Antivirus 360 / 2009 / etc.
Posted by Trevor Dennis
on February 16, 2009
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“Oh NO! This pop-up message says that my computer is infected with 74 different viruses! PHEW… It appears that it’s scanning my computer and removing them for me. Read more »
OS Critique: Ubuntu
Posted by Eric Shull
on February 16, 2009
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Episode #2
Posted by Tom Schultz
on February 15, 2009
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Pointless Rants – Episode #2
In this episode we had a guest, Eric Shull who is nearing completion of his math degree. Eric also has strong interests in programming and technology as well, which is why I picked him to post and guest on the blog.
Speakers: Tom, Trevor, Steve, Eric
The topics for this episode were…
- Trevor and Tom’s laptops came! Dell Stuido 1537 and Lenovo R500
- IBM Sequoia ( Physorg )
- Hotmail POP3 availability ( LifeHacker )
- nVidia CUDA ( nVidia.com )
- Malware Bytes ( http://malwarebytes.org )
- Don’t attempt to replace your ipod screen
- Facebook 25 random things
# Facebook’s 25 Random Things
Posted by Steve Oxley
on February 13, 2009
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If you’ve visited Facebook in the last month, you’ve probably seen one of your friends lists of “25 things about me.” If you are not familiar with this latest social trend it has become quite popular to write a note on Facebook that include 25 different things about you and then tag 25 of your friends with the requirement that they fill one out themselves. It is, as Tom says in our latest podcast (which should be up on Sunday), Facebook’s version of the chain-forwarding e-mail. After being tagged in a number of these notes, I had an idea. I posted the following note:
UNIX Time 1234567890 :D
Posted by Tom Schultz
on February 13, 2009
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Ok, so big party and dance for all the Unix people is coming up today.
The Unix time 1234567890 seconds will be happening today at 6:02:30 am EST or 3:31:30 am PST.
Here’e a site that has a list of parties and events surrounding this 1 second long moment in history www.1234567890day.com .
It’s not the end of the world but it’s pretty nifty!
