Or, one reason that I don’t like Outlook. So you know already, that when your computer boots up, there are lots of processes that have to start, programs that have to run etc. This process consumes a lot of processing power, so after typing in my password on my work computer, I usually find something else to do for the next couple minutes until my computer is actually useable (this is only a slight exxageration, [...]

I’ve added a new link in the Links section and thought it was important enough to explain why. Up until now, the internet has been a neutral playground.  Anyone could post content of any type, but your internet service provider probably does not want this to continue.  Most ISPs are now trying to prioritize content into different categories and make you pay  more if you want to access certain kinds. Are you a YouTube fan?  [...]

So being a student I don’t have a lot of access to extra hardware to test out certain things, so I’ll freely admit that my testing of Feisty is patchy at best, because I’m limited to VMWare Fusion, but I’ll tell you what I’ve seen and beyond that, I’ve heard some good things. I saw in the news a month or so ago that Ubuntu was not going to make proprietary drivers available in Feisty. [...]

This will be a short post, but I thought it would be interesting to look at one specific offering of an MDA product to see what they can do.  OptimalJ is made by Compuware and provides MDA programming for those of use that live in a J2EE world. To start things off, this PDF file is one of their marketing releases, but as we look through it, we can see the foundations of what makes [...]

This is HDTV as simple as I can explain it. I recently came to the realization that I live in a fantasy world. This fantasy is that after I finally finish Grad School and become employed full-time earning a real salary that I’ll suddenly have loads of extra money to spend on expensive toys. Don’t bring me back to reality. I like where I am. With that in mind, I’ve begun researching HDTVs. So many [...]