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Archive for July, 2008

Earthquakes and reboots

Living in California has its unique advantages. Weather, convenience and non realisitc T.V. shows about your town.
Another side of it is earthquakes. We just had a 5.8 earthquake near here, not that big, but its was a jolter.
I just Had to use our RSM8R4 to remote reboot my Windows and Linux server running [...]

Cutting Edge Console Server - WTI

Check this out…
Use the RSM-8R4 Console Server from WTI www.wti.com to manage routers, firewalls, etc remotely. Let me tell you this thing rocks!! It’s so much more advanced then other Console Servers as it has 8 console ports, 4 remote reboot outlets, Ssh ip port, and internal modem all in a 1 u box. Total cutting edge performance and you [...]

Bluetooth goes back

A couple of things over the past few days. The first one is when I went to the local Verizon phone store to get a Bluetooth headset. I lost the wired connector for my iPhone so I figured I would go the whole nine yards and buy a Bluetooth wireless headset. I picked up a [...]

Windows Mobile is over

How can you have a twelve year lead in something and for those ten years release nothing but junk and make it hard for developers to release products?
That what Microsoft has done for the Windows Mobile (Phone) Platform.
I develop across three platforms Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and the iPhone. To make Blackberry and iPhone applications, no [...]

Zunes and Tin Hats

Yes, I admit it, I have one of the original Microsoft Zune MP3 Players. Its even in brown, I like the the brown, its got the cool green trim. If you ever want to stand out and get people to talk to you, bring your brown colored Microsoft Zune to a Macworld or Apple WWDC [...]

iPhone applications and exploits

This weekend I let the kids loose on the iPhone and the iTouch upgrades. I told them they could buy any application as long as it was free (well I did break down and pay for two applications). My daughter was upset that she (meaning I) had to pay for the update to her iPod [...]

Reduce Data Center Power Consumption - Rack PDU

Reduce power consumption and costs in the Data Center with scheduled equipment shutdowns using WTI  Switched PDU.
The rising cost of energy consumption by computing equipment in general, and those found in data centers in particular, has become a tremendous concern to everyone—not just people in the computer industry. Awhile back, the government got involved when the EPA (Environmental [...]

Borders and Books vs Amazon

You know you stink as an online presence when your online store goes down and no one notices.
I got an email from Borders touting their 40% sale off their already over priced CDs, I click on the link and I get a:
“We’re sorry. Our site will be back soon. In you need immediate assistace, please [...]

Apple iPhone Store

Its Thursday morning and the iPhone App Store in online.
So far I have downloaded a bunch of Free apps including AIM. This is how it should be done for the mobile business to purchase applications. Easy, quick and very well laid out.
The Applications that do cost money are not more than $9.99 (USD).
All the stuff [...]

Cellphones and Choice

Yea, I know everyone is tired of hearing about the new iPhone to be released on Friday July 11. What I am looking forward to is the new firmware 2.0 that I can download into my existing iPhone and being able to run applications. Finally I will be able to SSH, send an MMS message [...]