Archive for the ‘internet’ Category
Walmart Linux Experiment Fails
Middle America Rejects Wal-Mart Linux Experiment.[via wired] This really wasn’t what our customers were looking for, says a Walmart spokeswoman
Gov. Spitzer Linked to Prostitution Ring
read how Eliot Spitzer (Governor of NY) has been caught up in a prostitution ring [via NYtimes] I have acted in a way that violates my obligation to my family and violates my or any sense of right or wrong, said Mr. Spitzer, who appeared with his wife Silda at his Manhattan office. I apologize [...]
BestBuy's PSP on Laptops FTW
If you’ve ever bought electronics from BestBuy odds are the sales person pitched their PSP (product service plan) to go along with your purchase. I use to work in retail and was required by my employer to do the same. On most things I wouldn’t recommend actually spending the extra dough for the ext. warranty, [...]
IE Required ?
I Ran into this error while trying to buy some AAA Visa Gift Cards. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a site dependent on Internet Explorer, besides updates.windows.com of course and had to share…
1 week with Mac OS X Leopard
I’ve been a Windows user for many years and just recently I’ve started to venture out to different operating systems. I spent some time with Ubuntu Linux, loved it. Then I moved on to OS X (10.5.2 Leopard) and one word could sum up my experience so far, wow! Although my positive experiences with OS [...]
My Last GoDaddy Horror Story
I was fortunate enough to get 99% of my web sites off of GoDaddy’s absolutely horrible Shared Hosting and over to my new server on Media Temples Grid. However I had no choice but to leave one of my clients websites behind on GoDaddy. I had a few reasons for this, this particular site was [...]
Jumping out of Windows into Ubuntu
I’ve been considering it for a long time now, and this past weekend I formatted my Notebook’s HD erasing Windows XP, and re-did my system with Ubuntu Linux. I’ve been using Microsoft Windows since the 90′s, although I’ve had a little experience in a series of Linux distributions (1 college course and a little e-mail [...]
Why PHPWebHosting Is Great
So I bought a complete, functioning website on eBay about 2-3 years ago, at the time of the purchase the seller had me register an account with PHPWebHosting so he could install the script and transfer the domain, email accounts and such. He insisted on PHPWebHosting because this was where the the site was coded [...]
Free Tools to Manage Your New Year's Resolution
Welcome to 2008! many of us started the new year with a resolution, in hopes that we can change something about ourselves or something in our life we are unhappy with. Lifehacker has posted a very good article recognizing some free apps & tools that will help us reach our goals, track our progress and [...]
Vista named #1 biggest tech disappointment of 2007
First, PC World declared the MacBook Pro to be the fastest PC tested by the magazine. Now they took their Mac favoritism to the next level by naming Windows Vista the #1 biggest tech disappointment of the year. Click Here to read the article. Coming from a long time Microsoft Windows user, it’s sad to [...]