I recently converted a physical CentOS 5 server to a virtual machine on VMWare ESXi 4.0. After the process completed successfully, I was elated since I have several similar servers that must be converted. I was not looking forward to the prospect of reinstalling each server manually and moving data manually. However, [...]
The D-Link DNS-321 Network Storage Device is a great and CHEAP way to increase your backup storage.
I have believed for a while that quality of life depends directly on the amount of risk you are willing to take. Part of a person’s risk tolerance must be genetic, but a portion of it is certainly choice. I took very little risk in my life until my late 20’s. Even [...]
In an unofficial 3G data test of dozens of points in the Northern Indianapolis area, Verizon consistently beats ATT in 3G download speed and trounces ATT in upload speed. The test phones were an ATT iPhone 3GS vs. Verizon HTC Droid Eris and Verizon Motorola Droid. Tests were run using the speedtest.net app for Android [...]
Do you hate to shut down your computer because it takes to long to start it back up. Or do you want to be able to remote desktop your computer when you are away? Well each of these usually means you leave your computer running constantly. Well you might not have to do that anymore if you [...]
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ShopSavvy is your shopping assistant. Using the camera in your phone,
you can scan the barcode of any product to find the best prices on the
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Sorry for the lack of updates, but August has been a busy month for us.
A short list of what we’ve been up to this month:
upgrading network infrastructures, new servers running Small Business Server 2008.
Decommissioning old PC’s/memory and donating them.
Working on network projects for various clients. Setting up new offices, network printer/scanners,
Got an iPhone to support [...]
A few weeks ago our Webmaster Allan, asked me to play poker with him and his friends on Thursday nights. The only catch is that they speak Spanish and I do not – at all. I took four years of French in high school. No Spanish, and more importantly no Venezuelan Spanish Slang, which is [...]
I tried out Evernote over the weekend. From the site, it is described as: “Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.”
Basically it is a web app that allows you to submit [...]
In the process of putting in an additional web server to further speed up client websites.