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Various Predictions for 2009

These are the predictions I’ve seen in media/technology so far.  Anyone have any others?From @themediaisdying tweet on Twitter:YOUR PREDICTIONS: EW, OK!, SEATTLE TIMES, MIAMI HERALD, BLENDER, EWEEK and COMPUTERWORLD will all not se e Christmas 2009. From cnet.com: Sony:  Further reduction in PS3 pricing, Blu-Ray struggles to gain ground on DVDs with streaming taking off [...]

Have a new computer user in the family?

Just caught a new post on Digital Inspiration, one of my favorite practical technology blogs:The Essential Guide to Internet & Software for First-Time Computer Users The first few mentions are easy:  PC Decrapifier, Firefox with Delicious add-on, Google Docs, but this article has some gems that I still have yet to use myself: Iterasi – [...]

MediaWiki on xampp

Okay, I installed  JSPWiki on xampp on an SD card to have an isolated sandbox for JSPWiki.  The install was space intensive due to the number of small files added with Tomcat and JSPWiki.  The install was also not entirely portable, in that the only systems that could run the setup from the SD card [...]

DM Fail

Found this from the @mashable blog link: Twitter DMs That Went Public: DM Fail.Someone creating a “service” to feed off of misunderstanding of how Twitter syntax works to try to pick out some incriminating tidbits that people didn’t intend as a public post. My thought is that if they are incriminating, they are much more [...]

The Next Windows ME?

A co-worker the other day suggested to me that Windows 7 was going to be the next Windows ME, because of the rush to market that seems to be going on.   I would tend to believe the opposite; that Windows Vista is becoming the next Windows ME.  However, I’m starting to become mildly skeptical of [...]

Made a space for my "tech notes"

I’m moving my tech stuff to tech0x20.com (Tech Space)I originally created three sites on my thomaspowell.com domain:linux-notes – I started my blogging experiment here.vim – My “adventures” in vim, not a very broad audience, but I liked keeping public notes on my favorite programming editor here.developernotes – I realized that I was researching and wanting [...]

Installing JSPWiki on an XAMPP for Windows install

I’ve been experimenting with XAMPP as a way to setup a temporary and transportable Apache install with PHP, MySQL, and a database admin tool (phpMyAdmin). Before starting, be sure to have Sun J2EE 5.x SDK (or higher) installed.As mentioned on PortableApps.com, by following the “Installation” without the installer instructions, XAMPP will run from a removable [...]

Installing JSPWiki on an XAMPP for Windows install

I’ve been experimenting with XAMPP as a way to setup a temporary and transportable Apache install with PHP, MySQL, and a database admin tool (phpMyAdmin). Before starting, be sure to have Sun J2EE 5.x SDK (or higher) installed.As mentioned on PortableApps.com, by following the “Installation” without the installer instructions, XAMPP will run from a removable [...]

Insight DNS issues #insight

Half of my DNS requests are timing out, and DHCP release/renew works about 50% of the time…thomas.powell Initial Question/Comment: Half my DNS requests are failing, DHCP renew fails half the time.8:29:33 PM SystemAshley H has joined this session!8:29:33 PM SystemConnected with Ashley H8:29:33 PM SystemThank you for contacting Insight Communications Customer Netchat Support, please allow [...]

Every time you make an Excel spreadsheet this big, a kitten meets its maker

I’m not really that elitist about non-programmers using applications in an advanced way the programmers could find a better way to do. I’ve never had to port functionality from an Excel spreadsheet that was 2 MB in size prior to data being added–at least not more than once.However, I am a bit disturbed that Excel [...]
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