Happy SysAdmin Day!
Friday, July 25th, 2008, is the 9th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication.
Archive of posts filed under the tech category.
WarGames 25th Anniversary
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the movie “WarGames” it’s showing in select theaters tonight at 7:30pm! You can use the event locator to see if it’s playing near you. Unfortunately I just found out about this today and have prior plans so I can’t go … but I totally would if I could. As …
I was “on” Buzz Out Loud! (again)
Last month I had my e-mail about our corporate experience with AT&T’s Enterprise Data Plan and GoodLink read on Buzz Out Loud. Since then I had come across some new information so I sent another message to Tom and Molly and they read it on episode #768 (at the 31:00 mark).
That’s a lot of PDAs …
Today I realized that in the past 12 years I’ve owned 4 Palm and 3 Windows Mobile devices: Pilot 1000 (1996) Palm III (1998) Compaq iPAQ 3135 (2001) Compaq iPAQ 3760 (2003) hp iPAQ h1945 (2004) Palm Treo 650 (2005) Palm Treo 680 (2008) That’s a lot of PDAs … boy was I glad once …
Blast from the (computing) past
When I was up in Ohio on vacation last week, my mom presented me with a cardboard box she found while cleaning out the basement. Score! The Atari 800XL was my first computer, given to me by my parents as a Christmas present in the early 80s. That, combined with seeing the movie “WarGames“, is …
Vista SP1 “reliability” update
Microsoft has released “a reliability and performance update for Windows Vista SP1-based computers.” According to the KB article, the update specifically addresses a problem with e-mail clients and ZoneAlarm, so maybe it will fix my Vista woes (no mention of a VPN fix, though). I’ve downloaded and applied the patch, but I’m in no rush …
Road Trip 2008: Day 1
We spent today mostly around International Drive near the Orange County Convention Center. After breakfast at the hotel and a little time spent over at Downtown Disney, we headed over to the Peabody Hotel to watch the famous Peabody Ducks parade out of the elevator, down the red carpet into the fountain in the center …
Farewell, Bill!
The man who brought us MS-DOS, Windows, and quite arguably shaped the PC industry as we know it today is stepping down: today is Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft. So long, Mr. Gates!
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If you work in IT, especially tech support, you’ve got to watch this. Hilarious and well done! (Warning: portions potentially NSFW)
Tethering the Treo 680 and Eee PC
Next week I’ll be taking a road trip vacation up the east coast which means a lot of time in the car. I thought it would be cool to be able to use my Eee PC in conjunction with my Treo 680’s data connection to get on the ‘net while (literally) on the road (instead …