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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Fear the Media Meltdown
Not the nuclear one! Great and detailed sense and information on what is actually happening, what dosages mean, and the media and anti-nuke industry reaction have been. It’s not nothing, but it’s not Chernobyl and can’t be, nor is it Three Mile Island. But then, from what I understood, seemingly refuted by all the references [...]
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Monday, March 7th, 2011
Cloud Backup Trends
Rob May has a great post at the company blog at Backupify on trends driving cloud backup. It sounds right to me, particularly the parts about data portability, it being managerially smart to prepare for black swans, and users being vastly more the problem than permanent data loss by a cloud provider is likely to [...]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Test
This is a test of posting with BlogDesk.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
This is Funny
Yet I can totally see it happening, based on my experiences with people and buildings and companies. Server room is a unique location.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Intentional… Or Malware?
I have run into the scenario of checking an end user’s computer for signs of p0rn, or surfing p0rn sites, and seen ambiguity introduced by popups from sites that are not p0rn per se, or clicks that were unintended and aborted. Obviously, malware can not only cause popups, but also download files nefariously. This is [...]
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Big Bang As Zero?
What could be geekier than cosmology? It’s amazingly cool that we seem able to detect Hints of ‘time before Big Bang’, which explains entropy and the apparent one-way orientation of time. It’s as if the Big Bang were the zero on a numberline, in which we are on the positive side, while what came before [...]
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Mac Eye for the Windows Guy
Ever think about switching to a Mac, or adding one to your stable of computers? Phillip Zannini has written a cleverly named book and transition guide: A Mac Eye for the Windows Guy – The Complete Guide to Software for Your Mac! It’s worth a look, if you’re thinking about expanding your horizons.
1 Comment » - Posted in Computers by Marshall
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Geek Dinner
If I had more money and less else to occupy me, I would consider going to the Providence Geek Dinner tonight. Oh well. That and I don’t always do well jumping into a crowd of people I don’t know and socializing.
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Desktopple
Desktopple sounds like the thing for me. I work centered mainly around the desktop, but that leaves me having to clean it up periodically. Usually that’s a dramatic sweep every couple months, with “running out of space” sweeps of the easy to move stuff in between.
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Web Worker Daily Et Al
Web Worker Daily remains a source of great content, but I hate their new design enough that I’m not sure I can call it my favorite anymore. Not only does it not fit the name neatly as the old design did, but as is so common, the featured content panel across the top feels like [...]