Over the last (almost) decade of working at the same company I have been amazed by the ever growing need for storage solutions. We have moved over time from a mixed Windows 95/98/ME environment to a homogeneous Windows 7 installation base. Where we were long ago running Office 97 we are now running Office 2010. [...]
Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
3 Jul
E-Readers Are Your Friend
Amazon.com recently released statistics that shows the explosive growth of e-book sales in the first half of this year. Considering the amount of sales that a company like Amazon makes this is simply staggering. A few interesting statistics: Recent milestones for Kindle include: Since April 1, for every 100 print books Amazon.com has sold, it [...]
19 May
The Move Is Finally Finished
Approximately eleven months ago we shut down operations in the old building at work and moved to a new facility. The biggest part of the move (for the IT Office) was relocating all of our servers. We had to schedule a significant maintenance window, shut down all of the servers, unbolt them from the old [...]
22 Jul
What’s The Frequency?
Cell phone coverage in our new building has proven to be quite a challenge. It would appear that big steel buildings such as ours do not permit easy wireless transmission. I have noticed issues with sending 802.11 G and N signals as well the signals that make our phones work. The overhead wireless network was [...]
13 Nov
Chrome OS Coming Soon
It looks like Chrome OS will be launching within the week! Google’s Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we’ve heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall. Hardware support is a problem with all operating [...]
27 Aug
Complete Care Coverage
Great video from the NC State Office of Information Technology on the need to purchase complete care coverage on your computer equipment. We purchase it on all of our new computers at work!
25 Jul
Is Sugar The Laptop Or The Operating System?
Nicholas Negroponte is at it again, giving an interview in Singapore and discussing the major failings of the OLPC project. I was struck by one thing that he said: Putting a crank-shaft on the XO laptop was a mistake, but the biggest mistake was not having Sugar run as an application “on a vanilla Linux [...]
8 Jul
Google Chrome OS
It’s official. I will be installing it on my Dell Mini 9 net book as soon as it is available! Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for [...]
7 Jul
WordPress For Blackberry
Very interesting new Blackberry application. Now I can blog from anywhere! You can find out info on how to download this app here.
26 Jun
Sugar On A Stick
The MIT Technology Review has published an article detailing the latest efforts on behalf of the Sugar Labs project. The newest version of the Sugar operating system is designed to install on a USB thumb drive or CDROM. If it is installed on a thumb drive then user files can be written to it and [...]
