Technology

Resident Computer Geek

rmiles7721September 21, 2007Technology

It’s somewhat funny. Every time someone at work has a computer issue they always end up coming to me. I don’t mind answering questions and stuff but I really don’t have the time to fool with fixing them anymore and have had to tell several people that. I do have one here that I seem to have had forever that I am almost done with. I am going to have to move it out of the kitchen for the party though.

Apparently one of my waitresses has a Thinkpad because yesterday she asked me where to buy IBM memory for them, as if I had some kind of secret pipeline. I told her that if she could do the upgrade herself to just do a search online, otherwise she needed to take it back where she bought it and talk with them.

Some Other Stuff For The Home Theater

rmiles7721September 19, 2007Technology

One of the things that our friend in Bluffton has that I am really envious of is a huge projection television. Eventually I want to get a really nice projector but that will really only be good for movies and stuff. During normal day to day watching television I need to use a nice HDTV or projection television. I’ve been pricing some of the projection televisions on the market and over the last couple of years they’ve fallen in price quite a bit. At some point over the next year or two I will end up moving the TV we are currently using to the play room and replace it with something bigger.

Home Theater Stuff

rmiles7721September 19, 2007Entertainment, Technology

I just finished writing about a contest over at my Home Theater Blog and of course it got me to thinking about neat stuff that I want for my Home Theater. Obviously I want to upgrade to a faster computer and I am in the process of slowly gathering equipment to build a new one. Some other things I want are a nice projector to replace my television, at least for the movie room and I also want to pick up some nice home theater furniture to fit in with the motif. Along with some theater seating it would be cool to set up some lit up movie posters behind glass as well as a couple of LED signs for the wall.

Snapstream is working on the next version of BeyondTV, as a matter of fact I am testing the beta version right now. That along with TheaterTek for my movies and DVDs and something to play music are about all of the software that I need for it.

New Host?

rmiles7721September 6, 20071Blogging, Technology

I’m in the process of moving one of my blogs over to Bluehost to try them out. I haven’t heard anything but good references for them so far, they are a fifth of what I am currently paying for hosting and offer more bandwidth. I figure I can try them out for awhile and see if the issues I am having are ironed out over there. If not then I will stay where I am at right now and be out $6.95. It’s worth $7 if my sites load faster and the commenting stops taking freaking 60+ seconds.

All I know is that there are plenty of blogs out there with more content and more comments and it takes 10% of the time to post a comment than it does here. I can’t have screwed up my installation so much that it is all of my sites.

I will ask a few folks to check it out if they get time once the DNS servers have propagated and I move everything over. It will probably be Saturday or so before I do that.

Have you signed up to win $50 in my post contest yet?

Watch This…

rmiles7721September 5, 20071Photography, Technology

…is usually the last thing you hear before a redneck hurts himself doing something stupid. Believe me, I know from personal experience. In this case though I did want you to check it out. I wrote a review on a piece of software at another site this morning and did this with it…

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That’s no mean feat for me. I can hack around in Photoshop a little bit but I have never been able to make animated gifs or anything cool like that. I can think of several different bloggers that I may just have to morph… >:

Untitled post

rmiles7721September 2, 2007Technology

I suppose it’s time to start getting ready for work. I got up early to write some paid reviews, but ended up surfing the damn web. I wrote a few posts for another site completely unrelated to making money but that is not necessarily a bad thing.

It doesn’t look like my manager with the three broken toes is coming to work until Wednesday at the earliest. Needless to say I am not particularly impressed with the asshat.

I’m starting to look around at the different smartphones in preparation to upgrading at the end of October. That’s when my “new every two” is in effect and I can probably get a deal as well if I go in to the store rather than ordering online as I have done in the past. It looks like the successor to the Verizon XV6700, the XV6800 is supposed to come out in October and I am seriously considering upgrading to it.

The pond is finished, and I will have some photos of it scheduled to post later in the day.

PDA/Cell Page

rmiles7721September 2, 2007Technology

I frequently access my site from my cell phone from work to view new comments. I’ve slimmed down the page a bit, taking out the ability to comment from the phone and some other stuff and just showing the actual posts themselves. Next week I will work on the CSS a bit and get some color in to the page. If you want to access the PDA page click the link.

iBackup Online Storage

rmiles7721August 31, 2007Technology

iBackup Online Storage allows consumers and business alike to backup and store their valuable data efficiantly and quickly and keeps it secure and free from worry. No more worrying about when the last backup is that you did for your valuable payroll or accounts payable data or trying to find the last tape or DVD that you stored something important.

With convenient integration with your Windows PC mapped drives appear in explorer and it’s easy to drag and drop files that you want to back up online. It’s not just for Windows however, iBackup offers a full range of off site backups for SQL Server, Oracle, Linux and MS Exchange. iBackup also guarantees superior performance which is up to 20% faster than other competitors according to internal testing.

According to PCMag, iBackup is their favorite among all of the online storage solutions available. The same holds true for PC World, WebUser, PC Pro Labs and CPU (Computer Power User). With so many professional users holding the service in such high esteem they have to have something going for them.

One of the really nice features, whether you run a small or large office is that you can set up accounts for collaborative sharing among co-workers, thus backing up all data in large or small projects.

Enough With The Tweets…

rmiles7721August 31, 20072Blogging, Technology

OK, the wife just asked why the hell I have 100+ new posts showing up in Google Reader. oops. I have disabled Now Playing from sending tweets on everything that gets played. I will just have it update an xml file via ftp server and put it in a sidebar widget or something. I am surprised nobody has beaten the hell out of me for it yet.

This way the only ones that should start showing up are the actual tweets that I send from my cell phone or IM.

Up And Running Again?

rmiles7721August 28, 2007Technology

I don’t know for sure but I did manage to ghost my hard drive over to a new one. This one is about a hundred gigs smaller than the other but I had it partitioned in half anyway and just backed up all the crap that was on the second partition. It was kind of a pain in the ass as I had to do a repair on my boot image in order to boot up.

I am also trying Readyboost, which is a utility built in to Vista (at least the ultimate version) that basically creates a ram drive on my 2GB USB drive and is supposed to spedd things up a bit. The jury is still out on that one. I can’t tell right now since my system was moving at a crawl before I swapped out hard drives anyway.