By Frank on August 3, 2010
So let’s start the posting regularity again with a bit of an “oof”: Geeks like to take things apart. Most of us got started at a young age, whereupon instead of actually enjoying the little toys that we got, we ripped them apart just to see how they worked. Some of you may have peeked [...]
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By Frank on January 2, 2010
Yes, yes, I know the image is triple monitors – but hey, one needs to aspire to the next level, right? As some of you know, I got a second monitor for Christmas – a wonderfully crisp-looking Samsung 24-inch widescreen to go with my rather squarish Dell 19-inch. There was a time when I thought [...]
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By Frank on December 19, 2009
Another reason for the lack of multiple posts per day lately is the fact that after a couple of years or so, I upgraded my computer. Taking advantage of the ridiculous discounts on Black Friday weekend, I secured a Dell Studio XPS 9000, with one of those brand spanking new i7 Intel processors, 6 GB [...]
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By Frank on December 17, 2009
Well – the last couple of days have been interesting at least. Typically I don’t really talk about what I do for a living as work posts tend to get drudged up at rather random times. But I will say that as an IT professional, there’s nothing that makes things more interesting than a late [...]
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By Frank on October 20, 2009
I think it seems like only yesterday that we were really using messaging clients that were simplistic and didn’t offer much functionality other than to send hastily created internet shorthand and smilies about the latest stuff. Back then, I was really only using messaging as a real-time way to keep up with friends, chat with [...]
Posted in Computers, Gaming | Tagged Computers, Internet |
By Frank on August 5, 2008
One of the really interesting things I notice about geeks is the contradictions they have with what they consider to be “cool”. Geeks like mechanics, they like parts, they like techie stuff – you know, the kinds of things that a normal, average person would have to probably take a week-long course with PowerPoint slides [...]
Posted in Computers | Tagged apple, Computers, iphone, ipod |
By Frank on July 25, 2008
Now, this isn’t just because I’m a Sysadmin myself and have gotten showered with a few random gifts already, oh no. But today, for those of you who don’t remember, is SysAdmin Day. What’s SysAdmin Day? Heck, what’s a SysAdmin? Aside from “that weenie who is antisocial and who is repsonsible for email”, they are [...]
Posted in Computers | Tagged Computers, information technology, sysadmin |
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