“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” - James Dean
Posted in Hardware, Linux, Technology on May 23rd, 2008
In an interview with Mark Shuttleworth, it was written that, in the first week of June, UBUNTU will be announcing a new distribution called Netbook Remix. This is specifically aimed at the ultra portable PCs, such as my ASUS Eee. That will be worth watching.
Posted in Hardware, Linux, Software, Technology on May 14th, 2008
I had a friend ask me to look at his PC the other day. His children need it for school work and Windows was taking forever.
I looked at his aging PC and told mim my recommendation was to replace it. He asked for a recommendation. I told him that he should get one similar to [...]
Posted in Hardware, Technology on May 4th, 2008
In case anyone is interested in knowing a little bit more about wireless security or implementing wireless security, then HERE is a pretty good write-up.
Posted in Hardware, Linux, Technology on May 2nd, 2008
I received an email the other day asking about my thoughts on the ASUS Eee, now that I have had it a little while.
I really have only had it for a little over a month. However, I have enough time with it to say that it is performing as I expected and wanted it to [...]
Posted in Buyer Beware, Hardware, Linux, Technology on Apr 8th, 2008
I took on a project that has turned out to be a little more difficult than I expected it to be. Maybe there are a couple lessons to be learned, so I will give some details. Part of this is Panama related and part isn’t.
I have a good friend that was buying some items for [...]
Posted in Hardware, Panama Journal on Apr 6th, 2008
Chiriquí Chatter Outage
At 9:17 AM, Panama Time, several files were altered in the WordPress files on my web host. That resulted in Chiriquí Chatter not displaying or operating correctly. I noticed that all have different permissions and thought that may the extent of the alteration. I was wrong.
It didn’t display under Firefox or any of [...]
Posted in Hardware, Linux, Technology on Apr 3rd, 2008
I made a great purchase today. One of the things that has annoyed me is that the USB connection with my Olympus camera is slow on loading photos into the PC. The other day I was in the ACER Computer store and I noticed an internal card reader.
It accepts all current camera memory chips and [...]
I had a good friend of mine contact me from Virginia and ask me if I used Skype. I haven’t loaded it on my main Linux PC because It is running 64 bit Linux. However, I remembered that it is on the Asus Eee laptop, so I booted it up.
In seconds, I was looking at [...]
Posted in Hardware, Software, Technology on Mar 16th, 2008
This was posted on one of the Yahoo groups by SGG and I think it is worth reemphasizing what she says. Everything she says here rings true. Some Internet Cafes are managed better than others, but most are lax in their use of updated Anti-virus and spyware programs.
The safest practice is to use your own [...]
Posted in Hardware, Software, Spam, Phish, Viruses and Hackers, Technology on Mar 13th, 2008
If you are a Windows user and also like gadgets, you might want to read THIS ARTICLE.
I have seen some of the digital picture frames in stores here in David.
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