James Erickson

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Blizzard Entertainment announces Starcraft II

May 20th, 2007 - Today, a very surprising announcement was made by Blizzard Entertainment. Starcraft II, which is the sequel to the very popular 'Starcraft' series, has been announced. This game has been a rumor in a lot of people's minds for a very long time. The original game was developed 9 years ago, and was... (Read More)

Views on Coporate Liability

Dec 1st, 2006 - The latest issue that has really been upsetting me lately is how corporations are no longer taking liability for their mistakes. One of the cases in particular is the new Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX that I purchased recently. Nvidia recently released their GeForce 8800 series graphics cards,... (Read More)

Online Gambling Prohibition?

Jul 11th, 2006 - Today the US House of Representatives has approved a new restriction on online gambling. This will in effect make gambling online as severe as owning child pornography. Both will be classified as a Class C Felony. This is a 12 billion dollar industry, with a good chunk (> 30%) of users based out of... (Read More)

Google releases Google Checkout

Jul 9th, 2006 - This last month Google released their Google Checkout service. Recently there was a lot of speculation over what this service actually was, several people were saying that this was going to be similar to Paypal, but now we know for sure. I had my first experience with this new Google site yesterday... (Read More)

Linux Package Management at a glance

Jun 30th, 2006 - I was recently working on a personal project to setup a PVR system for my living room. The first part of this project was relatively easy; I just bought another dell computer. The next step was a little bit complicated, see, personally I would typically like to use an OS that has a portage type... (Read More)

Information on Google Projects.

Mar 24th, 2006 - Recently I've been selected to participate on quite a few of the google 'beta' projects, such as analytics, Company based e-mail, and their google page maker. First off, let me just say that all of the google projects are wonderful. I've been playing with the google analystics recently and the... (Read More)

Computer Certifications at a Glance

Nov 26th, 2005 - Lately, it appears that computer certifications are becoming one of the most important credentials that employers are looking for. It seems that while employers are looking for this key asset, corporations are starting to put out more certifications for people to get. Microsoft and Red Hat both... (Read More)

Linspire Free for a limited time

Sep 2nd, 2005 - For all of you windows users that have been debating whether or not to change to Linux; now is the time to act, to see what it is all about. The people at Linspire are giving Linspire 5.0 away for free (digital download only) until September 6th. Simply go to purchase the $49.95 digital edition,... (Read More)
Windows Software

Certification Survey for 2006 is in.

Dec 6th, 2006 - It's here! No, not winter, the 2006 Certification Magazine results are in. Last year I wrote a similar article regarding these results, and the top spots were all 'System Administration' certifications. This year it is quite a bit different, the sought after CCIE has actually fallen from the top 5,... (Read More)
Windows Vista and Windows 7

Vista; The future has arrived

Dec 3rd, 2006 - Microsoft announced that Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange Server 2007 are now all available to 'Business' users. While most websites were speculating that this wouldn't be released to anyone (except OEM Manufactures) until January. To most it would appear that Microsoft is trying to get a head... (Read More)


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