So today, I got the following email from a relative: Pass this one on to all your e-mail buddies and take the time to read the Snopes.com article listed at the bottom of the message. It is full of good advice especially about the “cookies.”To whom it may concern:Just a word to the wise. E-mail…
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Samsung recently announced the future launch of a pretty amazing product, the Samsung SPH-P9000. Sporting itself as a PDA, laptop, cell phone and media center all in one gadget, it looks like it’s getting pretty close to the ultimate hybrid. This thing is about the size of a large PDA (think Apple Newton size —…
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One of my coworkers is a huge Ubuntu fan. He tried SuSE for a while, but eventually went back to Ubuntu. He had a lot of success with some of the problems I was having with SuSE. Specifically, it was Evolution connecting to Exchange (as I have previously discussed). So I decided to try it…
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I ran across the following link the other day and was very interested. Postfix and Postgrey: A proactive approach to spam filtering For those not familiar with Postfix, it’s an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent). Basically, a mail server. It’s the server application that stores, accepts and sends emails to different mail servers. So Postfix is…
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Apparently DARPA is working on a pretty amazing project. If something like this gets to be fairly accurate, then what will our world become. I read (and reviewed) the book, “1984” by George Orwell. This technology could easily make a reality of what Orwell portrayed. The ability to translate on the fly is amazing technology…
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Recently, I’ve been frequenting TigerDirect.com for all my electronics/gadget needs. I used to be a huge fan of Buy.com, but TigerDirect seems to usually beat Buy.com’s price. There is occasion when I still purchase from Buy.com if the free shipping will compensate for the higher price. One of the features that I really missed from…
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To make sure you all don’t start thinking this is a BYU only blog, I figured I would post about something else. I ran across a very cool application the other day. It’s classified under “Edutainment.” That amazing class of applications that are both entertaining and educational.
So I’ve run into my first pet peeve with SUSE Linux 10.1 (now renamed to openSUSE). My company is very Microsoft-centric company (except on our servers). Ok… I take that back… the IT department is very Microsoft-centric. We use Microsoft Exchange for our email, calendaring, etc… the buzz word is collaboration application. Evolution is the…
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Last week I installed the new SUSE Linux 10.1. In just a few words, brilliant synergy. This is by far one of the best releases of Linux in recent history and the best I’ve seen. I’ve been using Linux now since 1997 (RedHat 6.x), I think. But I haven’t used it consistently on the desktop…
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iTWire – Microsoft strengthens Windows lock-in with JPEG rival When I saw the above article, I became a little frustrated. As I continued to read, I became just plain ole’ furious. Why do they continue to do this? Don’t they realize that platform lock-in is a bad thing? They started their business off the opposite…
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