by Dennis Clayton | Apr 5, 2007 | Linux, Software, Technology
I downloaded Ubuntu 7.04, the “Feisty Fawn” the other day, installed it on my spare 40gb drive, as usual, and booted it up. Installation is a “Live CD” type install, it boots into the OS, therefore making sure it will boot on your system before...
by Dennis Clayton | Jan 9, 2007 | Apple, Cell Phones, Cool Stuff, Gadgets, General, Software, Technical, Technology
The apple phone has finally come out… I won’t go into too many details here except that it is a Quadband GSM (850,900,1800,1900mhz) phone that has 4gb ($499) or 8gb ($599) of flash memory installed. Of course it is also a music and video iPod that can be...
by Dennis Clayton | Jan 9, 2007 | General, Microsoft, Software, Technology
My brother and I both recently, over the holidays, attempted to install the final Vista RTM and here is a brief entry on our findings. My brother’s laptop is a nice higher end laptop from Alienware, it has a desktop class PC processor in it and runs XP better...
by Dennis Clayton | Nov 13, 2006 | Apple, Cool Stuff, Gadgets, General, Software, Technology
People really only connect Apple with iPods, iMacs and other “cute” computers like the Mini. But in reality, Apple Computer Corporation offers much more than beautiful design and innovative features. Apple started putting out computers around the same time...
by Dennis Clayton | Sep 26, 2006 | Cool Stuff, General, Software, Technical, Technology
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been looking for a decent Win32 Jabber server to start testing messaging for a private messaging solution for my friends and family as well as linking to GoogleTalk and other chat services using XMPP Federation. I tried the...
by Dennis Clayton | Aug 24, 2006 | Cool Stuff, General, Microsoft, Software, Technology
As I type this, I am installing Windows Vista Beta 2 on my PC, via my web browser, onto a virtual machine under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 (MSVS)… Everthing seems to be going smoothly and much better and simpler than VMWare. I am, so far, very impressed with...
