Author: Andrew
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Windows 8 Preview Available Today!
I’ve downloaded my next geek project and installed into a virtual machine. I use Oracle VM VirtualBox to run all of my virtual machines. If your computer is a CoreIx series processor, the functionality to run virtual machines is already built in and I highly recommend this FREE program. But…
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Texting While Driving in PA… DENIED!
It’s just under two hours until its illegal to text while driving in Pennsylvania. The new law, which takes effect March 8th, authorizes law enforcement to pull people over and ticket them if they’re observed texting while operating a vehicle. Of course me being a techy and geek, I know…
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Hackers
“Anonymous” hacked the CIA, Alabama State, and several Mexican websites this past Friday into the weekend. I’m not sure what they’re trying to prove with the wacked manifesto’s they’ve published justifying the hacking of those websites. I have to wonder what types of people they have actually doing these hacks.…
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Google, Live, and WP7…
I just spent almost 1/2 a day moving my 7 years of mail from Gmail to Live.com. Live used to be Hotmail, and being a Microsoft product it integrates seamlessly into my Windows Phone. It made sense I said. How hard can it be I asked myself. You’re probably asking…
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Windows Live
I have to admit that it wasn’t difficult to update my phone to a different live ID. The fact I had to do it in the first place is ridiculous. All because Google’s new wide sweeping data policies is a little to scary even for a geek techy like me.…
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Self-aware Internet……woah!
We had a debate at work today on whether we think the Internet would become self-aware at some point in the near future. While it was mostly conjecture that resulted in us ribbing each other for stupid ideas, it did start me thinking down a path that I hadn’t thought…
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“My phone is better than yours!”
Ok, I’ll admit it. I got really burned up at the debate I had over lunch today. I’ve had a smartphone since before they were called smartphones. My first was a Palm Treo 650 (a brilliant device, but that’s another story) and it was considered a personal digital assistant that…
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SCADA – supervisory control and data acquisition
I doubt most people heard about the water treatment facility that had their SCADA system hacked a few days ago that ultimately led to the facility to shutdown for several hours in Illinois. Most Americans don’t even know what this system does for us or just how critical it is…
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Sleeping at movies, not quite
Driving into work today I thought of several things I wanted to talk about, things that were bothering me. Now, as I sit staring at the white screen, my mind is blank. I guess that, in itself, is something. An ability that G is absolutely jealous of…. especially when attempting…