Tag Archives: Install
Upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7
Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by zevmo.
It is that time of the year!!! I am doing upgrades of machines to Windows 7, and these events always bring me a lot of joy… as a person who makes money fixing problems. Man, can Microsoft make this process any more convoluted? Here I will give you some tools to make the process go [...]
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Juniper EX 8208 unbox and install
Posted on 20. Oct, 2009 by zevmo.
It’s here! Like Christmas morning, all over again… but for really expensive toys that I don’t own but just work on. Oh, it’s the same thing. Heavy out of the box b/c it has the power units installed out of the box. Really slick looking design. Quite a design difference and departure from the Nortel [...]
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DISQUS- Commenting platform for your Blog
Posted on 16. Oct, 2009 by zevmo.
Like most people, I think the default comments section in WordPress sucks. WordPress, as a platform, is probably one of the best. I have used others, but WP is now grown into a very powerful tool-set, with so many plug-in choices, auto-install and updates. The biggest weakness for most sites is the comments section. You [...]
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10.6 Snow Leopard post 2, electric boogaloo
Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by zevmo.
Well, I have had some time to play around on MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and overall it seems to have been worth the upgrade cost ($10). I did, however, run into a couple fo snags. Understandably, there are a few bumps that need to be ironed out, namely software not developed by Apple. For example, [...]
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I’m a Mac… and why MS is unbalanced
Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by zevmo.
I have to tell you, this is my favorite “I’m a Mac..” commercial. It reminds me of my last trip to Florida when I needed to get some old RAM for a 5 year old laptop. They no longer carried it in the big-box stores, so we ended up going to a local “Computer Repair [...]
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Apple’s Data Center, Cablevision’s Optimum Online, and the Cloud
Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by zevmo.
Mac Rumors story on Apple’s North Carolina Data Center is a very exciting look into the future of Apple, and where Operating Systems are going to go. One of my friends, long ago, said that all of computing will go full circle, back to dumb terminals. He is totally right. Eventually, you will buy VM [...]
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Update: 2 weeks with my 13″ MBP
Posted on 11. Aug, 2009 by zevmo.
So, today is the 2 week anniversary of my latest Apple lust, the 13″ MBP. Specs: 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache 1066MHz frontside bus 4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 memory 500GB 5400-rpm hard drive Here are my initial impressions of the device. Great! Duh. Upgrading: Well, [...]
