My mother-in-law in South Africa was having computer problems this morning. She called and I was not able to use Remote Desktop because their ISP blocks those ports, but I had her login and install GotoMyPC and she was able to install it without a problem. Then I logged in and took control over her [...]

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After a year off of working with J2EE (WebSphere) I started again this spring, but this time with Java 1.5, JSF and BEA. To my dismay, nothing has changed. For the most part the IDE, the frameworks, the amount of XML and inconsistent behavior all remain. Instead of making you more productive as a programmer, [...]

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This week-end I decided enough, was enough. I did not want to endure XP anymore, and did not want to struggle with Vista. I was tired of the 6-month computer rebuild and the drivers, and the crashes, yada, yada, yada…
Today I purchased a new MSI board with a Duo Core E8400 chip with 4GB of [...]

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It’s always down, how can I Twitter if I can’t get to the site?

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After some time you have installed enough software on your PC that XP is just no longer able to run or boot fast like you remember when you originally installed it. This is known as the rebuild conundrum. You are faced with reinstallation of all your software in exchange for a faster more stream-lined pc, [...]

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I have been busy the last few days and have noticed that my google reader inbox has gotten very large, over 300 items I now need to catch-up on. I am really thinking that I need a better way to filter this news…. Hmm…. Maybe another idea….

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As much as I like Web 2.0 I am realizing how much noise exist. I mean twitter, Google Reader (so many feeds), all the blogs, podcast, software to try and download, etc. etc. etc.
I wonder about how all of this noise will be filtered, what will result? I think with social networks and so many [...]

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I had this idea, I have all these computers each with extra un-used storage space, an extra 100GB here, an extra 200GB there, but for what? just sitting around doing nothing, now if I want a network attached storage guess what? I need to purchase one and now I have that plus my spare 100 [...]

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I don’t really listen to my iPod anymore. Why? Because it will not sync. I can’t sync, it won’t recognize my iPod then when I try to sync it tells me
“the ipod cannot be synced the required file cannot be found”
So, what to do, buy a new one, or take it in to get fixed? [...]

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I built my Media Center PC about 1 year ago, for the most part, it has set dormant because Vista would not work. A few weeks ago I tried it again, and I thought everything was working fine, until last night, I got 4 blue screen of deaths. It also seems that it does not [...]

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