Category: Technology

Oracle to buy Novell?

I’m not quite sure how I feel about this. That would make two of my former employers swallowed up by Oracle (PeopleSoft and Novell). At first glance, I didn’t like the thought of Larry Ellison having any type of influence in Happy Valley. But as I considered this more and more, I realized that it…
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Forced Advertising — Copyright and Patent Laws

According to this CNET news article: An invention from Royal Philips Electronics prevents TV viewers from switching the channel during commercials or fast-forwarding past commercials when watching DVR content. Can you believe it? This would make it impossible to change the channel during a commercial. How crazy is that?

Data recovery

I just realized that I didn’t post a conclusion to my fun with my re-partitioned USB hard drive. So here it is… I ended up grabbing a software package to undelete after a reformat and other accidents. I tried a couple of them and went back to something I had used in the past, Active…
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The truth about the Buffalo LinkStation

In trying to recover the data I killed when doing my brilliant work detailed in my last post, I remembered by LinkStation. So about 1.5 – 2 years ago, I purchased a Buffalo LinkStation Within a few months, the thing stopped working. It just wouldn’t respond when I booted it up. Lights would flash and…
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Tips when reinstalling Windows

1. DON’T LEAVE YOUR USB DRIVE PLUGGED IN WHEN REINSTALLING A SYSTEM WITH WHICH YOU ARE UNFAMILIAR Yeah… that was yelling. Really at myself, not at you. So my brother-in-law brings his laptop to my house to wipe it out, reformat and reinstall Windows XP. No biggy, right. So we plug in my USB Hard…
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AJAX, Web 2.0, The Writable Web and other buzz words

So the above title is designed to drive Google traffic to my site… ok not really, but I don’t mind if it does. I’m getting tired of all the buzz words associated with the new web design and application development philosophies on the Net these days. Admittely, I like to through around AJAX, although I…
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