Archive for the 'computers & Internet' Category

To Kindle or not to Kindle?

I’ve been considering purchasing an Ebook reader for a while now.  I have been reading all the reviews, doing my research, watching the prices, but until just last week couldn’t make up my mind.  In the end it came down to two likely candidates, the Amazon Kindle or the Barnes & Noble Nook.  Both had [...]

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I love it when a plan comes together

Man, I really love it when things work the way they are supposed to.  Last night I fired up my notebook to check some emails and to pull up a technical manual that I wanted to read.  The manual was located on a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Drives) drive downstairs in the radio room.  [...]

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Microsoft bids $42 Billion for Yahoo

As Claude Pepper, former Congressman from Florida used to say about government spending , a couple million here, a couple million there and pretty soon you are talking about some real money! Well Claude, Microsoft is after Yahoo and they are talking real money. Microsoft is again using its deep pockets to buy out a [...]

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