Six months ago I got my daughter a refurbished 2nd generation Amazon Kindle from woot! and she has been inseparable from it. Thus, it was a distressing day for her this past Thanksgiving weekend when she turned it on and found just a series of black lines on the screen. None of the reset methods [...]
Archive of posts filed under the tech category.
Galleon’s weather app is dead
For the past few years I’ve been trying my best to keep Galleon’s weather app running, but it appears the end-of-life for it has arrived.
WIJFR: Zero Day
A plane over the Atlantic suddenly needs to reboot its computer to stay in the air, and the pilots barely avert disaster. A hospital network mixes up patient information, resulting in the death of several people. A law firm, which has lost all of its clients’ data and can’t get its system running again, turns [...]
Obtaining the Oneiric Ocelot
I learned my lesson last time and decided to hold off a few days before upgrading to the new release of Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot. That was a smart decision since the upgrade took just under two hours this time instead of over eight. I did have one (self-induced) snag during the ‘do-release-upgrade’ step. I [...]
Library books on the Kindle – slightly complicated
This week Amazon unveiled public library books for the Kindle, a feature the Nook has had for quite some time. This evening I checked out (pun intended) the process to see how I could get a library book onto my daughter’s Kindle.
Windows 8 Developer Preview released
This week at the Build Conference, Microsoft released a freely downloadable developer preview of Windows 8 (you can download the ISOs here). If you’re an avid reader of this blog (and which of the five of you aren’t? ) you know I like to jump on new technology early so of course I downloaded the [...]
Buffalo WZR-HP-G300N wireless router
Last month I spotted a Fatwallet deal for the Buffalo WZR-HR-G300N gigabit wireless N router ($60 from Amazon with free Prime shipping) that I couldn’t pass up. I didn’t have any wireless N clients and wasn’t having any real problems with my four year-old Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 wireless router (running DD-WRT), but hey, cheap new tech, [...]
ActionTec ECB2200 MoCA adapters
I’ve been having issues with my Netgear MoCA adapters lately and since they are now out of warranty (no more free replacements) I decided to look into other manufacturers. I picked up two used ActionTec ECB2200 adapters on eBay for a good price, figuring this way I would have spares if (when) these Netgear units [...]
WebOS is dead … long live, er — uh, nevermind
Today, just six short months since announcing a slew of new WebOS devices, hp announced they are discontinuing the entire WebOS line. The successor to PalmOS and its related devices like the Pre just never took off and the TouchPad was pretty much dead-on-arrival, crushed by the iPad only 49 days after its release. It’s [...]
SysAdmin Day 2011
Today is the last Friday of July, which means it’s time once again to thank your local system administrator(s) on System Administrator Appreciation Day. What, you don’t know what your sysadmin does, or who he/she is? Read this and I’m sure you’ll figure it out.
