Dr. Bill | The Computer Curmudgeon
Join Dr. Bill as he examines the wild and wacky world of the web, computers, and all things geeky! Hot Tech Tips, Tech News, and Geek Culture are examined… with plenty of good humor as well!
Yep… I talked about it for SO long… I finally got one for my Birthday+Christmas (combo present.) I love it! I am SO into reading my Star Trek books on a Kindle (I pretend it is a PADD from Star Trek!) Cool! I even got a cool leather cover for it as well. So, get with it, folks! Get a Kindle! Join the 21st Century!
New post category, new feature, new website! Wow! Check out Koyote Soft for all your video and audio conversion needs, man! This site rocks! FREE software to do your video and audio format conversions! I kid you not!
If you are a geek like me, you will find this stuff amazing and totally useful!
This is a VERY handy little utility… particularly, if, like me, you are a Citrix XenApp admin. It allows you to pull the icon out of an executable and save it as a .ico file. Very cool!
Try it… it is free, and works great!
So, you want a free image backup utility before you do the inevitable upgrade to Windows 7? Well, here you go!
Macrium Reflect disk imaging software is a good basic program that can easily help you back up your files and folders, as well as entire disks. It can also create restore disks and can save at a variety of compression levels.
We liked that this software can save to any type of CD or DVD and it supports an array of drives including IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB and FireWire. It also supports many common file types including all types of NTFS and several FAT types.
Macrium Reflect Standout Features:
* Integrated VBScript generator
* Windowless recovery options
* XML Backup definitions
New OSes! What every super-geeky dewds like me like! I am liking what I see of Windows 7, but I am also looking forward to Ubuntu Linux 9.10! So, happy days for geeks!
Yeah… they are for the old version… but, hey… free books! Covers a good intro to virtualization with VMware. Check it out!
Best Buy employees are trained (by a Microsoft slide show) to mislead people on Linux… and this surprises someone? Why else are they (M$) called the “Evil Empire?”
We teach Best Buy to Trash Linux
Microsoft (MSFT) has confirmed the authenticity of a controversial set of training slides that it prepared to train Best Buy (BBY) employees in what the software giant calls ‘the important differences between Linux computers and Windows computers.’ Pro-Linux advocates — including the Best Buy employee who initially leaked the training slides onto the web — had accused Microsoft of ‘indoctrinating’ workers with anti-Linux propaganda to mislead the public. The Best Buy worker, whom DailyFinance has spoken to, remains employed. For now.”
And I was there at the beginning… but, hey, I AM the Computer Curmudgeon!
“The concept of an Internet free world now seems unimaginable and to a certain degree, frightening. You may be surprised to know that LOLCats and Rick Rolls weren’t on the minds of two California universities when they began tests 40 years ago, successfully sending data between two computers in 1969. These were the humble beginnings of ARPANET…what is now, the Internet. What better time to recap on the last 40 years and provide a brief history of how a technology that has changed our lives, came to be. Before you begin reading however, if you’d like a more visual representation, you may want to sit back and watch this wonderful video that will take you through the decades to today.”
So… enjoy your Internet… and celebrate the access we have!
I never thought I would… but, Mozilla Firefox has been hanging, and crashing lately with the latest version… and I certainly wasn’t going to use IE! So, I am now using Google Chrome… and I got to admit, it is nice! Come on, Mozilla! Get your act together and get Firefox more stable… or, you will have a huge defection on your hands! Really, I LIKE Firefox… more I have to be able to do my work!