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Written By: cfikes on April 3, 2010 No Comment
iPad growing on me?

I know the last post I wrote was “Whats the iPoint?”, but the more I see this device and the possibilities it opens, the more I want one.
I currently have a netbook, Dell Mini 1010, that lives in the living room. Its a nice little machine, 1.6ghz 1gig ram 1366×768 resolution, but all it does [...]

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Written By: cfikes on January 27, 2010 No Comment
Whats the iPoint?

When I heard that Apple was finally releasing their table unto the world I got excited. Multitouch interface on a Macintosh platform, how cool would Photoshop be. I could just see a wild new interface, much like the Microsoft Courier, with gesture support, voice integration and video input from a camera. Well, Apple has released [...]

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Written By: cfikes on October 20, 2009 No Comment
Droid Does

Nice Work Verizon.

Written By: cfikes on September 5, 2009 One Comment
Free Motherboard.

For months now, I have been dealing with slow transfers over ssh and smb from my home server. When I say slow, I am talking speeds ranging from 16 kilobit to 1 Megabit. Slow for a Gigabit network, slow for any network.
My server runs CentOS 5.3 64bit; Dual Opteron 1.8GHZ 4GB Memory and 8 250GB [...]

Written By: cfikes on July 18, 2009 No Comment
Server Fail

Well, today I shut down my server to install a new NIC, and upon powering up, the power supply any motherboard died. Just for those wondering it was a Dual Core Opteron 1.8ghz in a Asus M2N-LR socket AM2 motherboard with a 360 Watt Silverthorn power supply. So needless to say, until I order a [...]

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