Summer of Geekazine contest comes to a close – Summer of Podcasts starts right up. New Video intros being made – Wanna help? Where is my Staple Gun – the new studio. Take the Geekazine Podcast Survey Try GoToAssist free for 30 days – No CC needed: GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts. Put Your Financials into order – Edward […]
You might remember the products. You might remember the hype. Then, you are tooling down highway 41 years later and all of a sudden you think to yourself – “Hey, whatever happened to…” Failed ideas. Maybe it was a great idea, but wasn’t made right, or design errors brought it down. Maybe it was just […]
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Brought to you by GotoAssist Express – Get a 30 day free trial July 4th, 2008 – The company that used to be called “Ask Jeeves”, but is now Ask.com officially announced they acquired the Lexico Publishing Group. The LPG is a company that built a series of reference websites. Most notably Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. […]
Bloomberg reports that Amazon is cutting ties to associates in states that are moving to up the sales tax ante. The story is a little murky, but it appears to involve blog and web ads on third party sites. I think this is what is going on: Say I have a blog in North Carolina. […]
Busy Week Thanks for coming to the site. We had another great week – busy week. It was a lot of fun and really productive. Post – HPTF Of course, we went to Vegas the week before to cover the HP Technology Forum Expo. Andy McCaskey, Kara Karsten and myself were working hard with interviews, […]
This week for TVazine, we go through a review that I thought was all but lost. A couple months ago, a hard drive crashed and with it – a few of the video reviews I did early on that were not published yet. However, I do back up systems, and found that this video was […]
During the week, we learned about how HP has worked on putting a Data Center in a place you would not normally expect. A Shipping POD. Shipping containers have been used for years to send items overseas. Cars, boats, heavy equipment, or if you’re packing your house, put it in a POD and move it. […]
So Cal and I were having lunch the other day and he says – “Why don’t you come on the show”. I say “Why not?” He says “Yeah, why not.” and I say “Ye… wait. I have to get more Pizza Hut Buffet Pizza.” Then we go get some more Pizza. Nonetheless, that evening we […]
The July contest will be a little more involved than we normally do. However, it will be a blast as we are involving many different podcasters to join in to the Summer of Podcasts – Podcast Carnivale. Here is the official press release: Summer of Podcasts – Podcast Carnivale set for Month of July Podcasters […]
Brought to you by Gotoassist express – get a 30 day free trial. Well, the US did it. Analog TV is no more. Hail to Digital TV. More channels, better reception and all still over a pair of rabbit ears. However, we’re not totally done with the Digital conversion. As we ramp down on television, […]
I’ve described installing Debian before, here, here, here, and here. By default, Debian installs with the Gnome desktop; other choices can be made at installation. Still other choices can be made later. (Try changing your desktop on Windows–you can change the wallpaper and some of the icons, but that’s about it. You can’t change the […]
Back from Vegas and still going – The new Guitar – Summer of Podcasting Contest – Will be on Random Reality – My Local Interviews – Updcate to Google Voice. Take the Geekazine Podcast Survey Try GoToAssist free for 30 days – No CC needed: GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts. Put Your Financials into order – Edward Jones All […]
brought to you by GotoAssist Express. Get a 30 day free trial We announce the 3rd step in the Summer of Geekazine contest June 27th – William Gates officially hands the keys over to Steve Ballmer and goes on his retirement. Well, sort of. Bill announced that he will be stepping down as CEO of […]
The New York Times reports here that Paypal compiles dossiers in advance of applications for membership. That’s why it is able to approve new applications so quickly:
Day Off – Sort of A late Ramblings this week as I decided to stay offline last week. It was a long week and I was playing all weekend. It has been a while since I last took more than 24 hours off a computer, so that is a big feat for me. HP Tech […]
The show ended with a big bang – well, not that big bang, but we were close to being that philosophical about it. With the Closing Keynote including Dr. Michael Kaku about what we could see in years to come. How Moore’s law is about to come to an end and we need to run […]
Well, the day started out with interviews, then more interviews, then a keynote and now we rest until tonight. But there are some great pictures of the day, therefore, here is the rest of Day 4. The Closing Keynote pictures are with the respected post.
HP has a great closing session for you. Master of Ceremonies: Bill Sales: VP – Industry Standard Servers – Americas Mike Klayko: CEO – Brocade Rob Helm: Director of Research on Microsoft – Independent Analysis of MS Tech & Strategy. Tom Kilroy: VP – GM Intel Digital Enterprise Group Dr. Michael Kaku: Henry Semat Chair […]
TCO stands for Total Cost of Ownership. One of the big points at the HP Technology Forum was how much money you can save if you update your servers. With the new designs and smaller, cooler archetectures, you can reduce your Data Center and the power and heat it expells. Andy McCaskey talks with John […]
Day 3 went fast and hard. We got to the interview booth and we were interviewing right away. The one-on-one walk by interviews were also being recorded. All in all, it was a great day. We learned about Cooling and Heating elements. We learned about a program that could find free nodes on a network […]
Well, we survived another day and are ready for the upcoming barrage of interviews and video: 8 AM: Planning Meeting Halley Claire joined us and we talked about Blogging and Marketing. 10 AM: Got the Booth set up for interviews with Brian Ignomirello and Chris McCall. Shane Pitman of NeoWin 11:30 AM: Tons of Video […]
Day 2 had brought upon a lot of cool stuff. We put together the booth for uStream interviews, we walked the floor of HPTF and we had a great time at the Luau. Here is the Wrap Up Video for the HPTF 2009 Day 2. I am at awe of the 1000 videos playing right […]