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John A in a Nutshell
The former joeprogrammer
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All Recent Tags How often is it that we hear stories from people who work as tech support about the stupid people they have to deal with? Indeed, it seems as though working as tech support could potentially be an extremely entertaining profession, provided that you have a good sense of humor. Of course, it could...
Read More | Nov 28th, 2007 | Comments: 4 | Last Comment: Nov 30th, 2007
GPT, an acronym for GUID Partition Table, is likely something you've never heard of before. Perhaps that's a good thing. Throughout my usage of GPT, I've come to see that it's a total and complete waste of time.
What is GPT, anyway? Wikipedia defines it as a partition layout standard for a hard...
Read More | Aug 20th, 2007 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: 15 Days Ago
Add SuSE to the list of operating systems going to be offered by Dell as they ally with Novell and Microsoft to sell their server software.
Planning on selling both SuSE SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) and Microsoft's Windows Server, Dell broadens their offering of solutions, hoping to...
Read More | May 7th, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: May 7th, 2007
The constant worry of soldiers leaking top-secret information onto the internet via blogs had forced the commanders to approve every blog entry that a soldier wrote before they could post it onto the world wide web. Fortunately for them it's called off, at least for now.
Just 3 days ago, a fact...
Read More | May 6th, 2007 | Comments: 4 | Last Comment: Aug 25th, 2007
If you like listening to Pandora but are not living in the United States at the moment, you may want to enjoy it while you can, because Pandora has announced that they're going to block non-US visitors in short order. Why? You guessed it: licensing problems.
Previously, Pandora had only claimed...
Read More | May 3rd, 2007 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: May 4th, 2007
A school in Meridian, Idaho, is banning iPods and other digital music players during tests due to the fact that students were using them to hide answers, as one teacher overheard. The iPods in question could be loaded up with notes hidden in song lyrics, or recorded lectures stored on the hard disk...
Read More | Apr 30th, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: May 2nd, 2007
Today I received an email from "Halifax bank" that contained the following:
Well, since I didn't even have an account with "halifax bank", it was fairly obvious that this was a scam, and the fact that "halifax" isn't capitalized makes me highly skeptical of the professionality of the whole...
Read More | Apr 27th, 2007
Since recent years, we've come to appreciate the speed and usability of Flash drives. The fact that sudden motion makes no difference to its accessibility makes Flash drives an intriguing prospect for laptop manufacturers. Especially Dell, which is going to offer a configuration option with its...
Read More | Apr 26th, 2007 | Comments: 5 | Last Comment: May 3rd, 2007
Yesterday, an email was sent to the OpenOffice developers that proclaimed the development of a new version of OpenOffice -- one that's going to be available via the web. Using a technology that's been in development for 3 years already, Gravity Zoo Framework, a special programming library aimed at...
Read More | Apr 24th, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Apr 24th, 2007
The social networking site MySpace has added a new feature that brings MySpace into the journalism world: MySpace News Beta. It has a system very similar to Digg, that is, it allows users to rate and promote content to the front page. With over 160 million users, a feature like this surely does not...
Read More | Apr 20th, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Apr 21st, 2007
