My New Birthday Present

May 17, 2009

My brother is awesome and not only because he buys me the best geeky birthday present. For my birthday this year, he bought me a new DELL XPS desktop with the latest Intel Core i7 processor. The Core i7 is a quad-core processor with hyper-threading that appear as 8 separate processors to the operating system, [...]

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Dell Adamo looks beautiful

March 16, 2009

Looks like DELL is getting ready to launch a beautiful 13-inch laptop called Adamo. Adamo is a latin word that means “to fall in love with” or “find pleasure in” and I can certainly see that after seeing the pictures that were leaked at SXSW. Picture by Brian Solis. More pictures on Flickr.

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Windows Vista SP2 Beta – Initial impressions

December 7, 2008

So I just installed SP2 of Windows Vista which is out in beta on my computer yesterday – so it’s been about 24 hours and my computer is stable and all of the applications I’ve used so far have worked just fine. The only bizarre issue that I’ve noticed so far is the uninstall of [...]

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Upgraded my computer – Love the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT card

October 12, 2008

I have a couple of computers at home but my primary machine is a DELL desktop running Vista. This is a dual-core machine with 4 GB of RAM but it ran sloooooooooooowwwwww. So I just upgraded the machine with a new 500w power supply and a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT video card. The NVIDIA GeForce [...]

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IE8 on Acid

March 5, 2008

Just downloaded and installed the IE 8 beta and guess what – it really passes the ACID2 CSS tests. This is great news for developers everywhere. This is another piece of good news after the latest decision by the IE team to have IE 8 interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it [...]

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Goodbye Carbonite – Hello Mozy

October 7, 2007

I have or should say had been a Carbonite user for almost an year but issues after issues finally got to me and the lack of new features that were long promised but never delivered forced me to start looking at the automated online backup again and I am so glad I did, as I’ve [...]

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Put Your Linksys Router on Steroids

January 28, 2007

This is something I have been meaning to do for many years now but I finally took advantage of the Christmas break to put my Linksys Wireless Router (WRT54G) on steroids. Since I was upgrading my Windows machine from XP to Vista and my Linux machine from Dapper to Edgy (Ubuntu), I figured why not [...]

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Carbonite Rocks – Backups Made Easy

December 30, 2006

Update (Oct 6, 2007): I have stopped using Carbonite and switched to Mozy for a while now. I’ve had numerous problems with Carbonite and their customer service was crappy. So I decided to give up on Carbonite even though I had already pre-paid for 2 years – I guess it’s better to lose $80.00 than [...]

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How to survive Vista – Kiss UAC goodbye

December 9, 2006

As I’ve blogged before, the whole idea of User Account Control or UAC has been driving me crazy. Annoying dialog boxes that keep popping up asking for your permission before doing anything is NOT security. I’m sure Microsoft will certify and validate more applications and actions so that these annoying popup dialog boxes will soon [...]

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Vista woes continue

December 7, 2006

My Vista woes continue as I try and fail to pgrade my Office 2003 installation to Microsoft Office 2007. I tried installing the Enterprise edition of Microsoft Office 2007 and the install fails about 20% into it with the following message: Error 1310. Error writing to c:\config.msi\4f8d86e.rbf. Verify that you have access to that directory. [...]

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