12/19/2006 @ 9:19 am by Daniel Eisner
The EZQuest Monsoon is an excellent quality, compact, high performance disk drive. It comes preformatted for Mac OS 9 or X, but you can easily reformat it for Windows or Linux.
12/8/2006 @ 9:07 am by Daniel Eisner
I’ve been running the Mac Mini for more than 6 months now. Its time to check in for a 6-month review of all the quirks and perks.
Read on for a full account of what its like to use a Mac Mini as your Media PC for 6 months!
12/7/2006 @ 5:35 pm by Daniel Eisner
I’m planning a trip to visit my friends for a holiday party. They have a computer which always gets infested so badly with spyware that it takes 10 minutes or more to boot up and is virtually unusable. I’ve reloaded Windows on it twice for them so far, but whatever they’re doing that gets it infected, they can’t seem to stop. So, I’m taking a new tactic.
10/29/2006 @ 11:26 pm by Daniel Eisner
So of course, the financial news world is buzzing with Larry Ellison’s announcement that Oracle will be selling their own flavor of Linux: Unbreakable Linux, which they freely admit will be pretty much stolen from Red Hat and sold for about half the price at the entry level. Here is why investors are wrong, and Red Hat really has nothing to worry about.
9/20/2006 @ 10:09 am by Daniel Eisner
We recently got an Averatec 2200 laptop, which is a pretty sweet device. It’s small, fast, and moreover, has a great feel to the keyboard. Unfortunately, it keeps locking up in Linux, and the wireless card doesn’t seem to get recognized when I installed Ubuntu 6.06.
Because I want to do a lot of unix-like development, [...]
7/7/2006 @ 6:51 am by Daniel Eisner
If you’re working in the server end of the IT field today, you’d be hard pressed to avoid the topic of virtualization. Everyone from the largest of vendors (IBM, HP, Sun, VMWare) to the smallest (XenSource) are pushing it. They claim that virtualization will reduce IT costs, simplify your infrastructure, and allow you to better [...]
