- Published:
- January 6, 2010 – 11:05 am
- Author:
- By Dave
The beginning of a decade is always a time for prognostication, and this year is no exception. This is an interesting collaborative look on mobile device trends for 2020. A lot of these trends are already well on the way to widespread adoption, and I would argue that many will be seen by 2015.
View the complete article to view my own predications for the Mobile Trends of the 2010s.
Categories: Cell Phones,Tech
Tagged: mobile, predictions, trends
- Published:
- December 27, 2009 – 12:16 am
- Author:
- By Dave
I’ve decided to replace my cable plan and DVR box with something a little more… functional. Sure we get a ton of channels from Verizon FiOS, but we hardly ever watch them. Our television viewing habits mainly consist of a few programs that my wife watches and a few programs that I watch, but we [...]
Categories: Hardware,Software,Tech,Television
Tagged: boxee, replace-cable, Television
- Published:
- December 23, 2009 – 9:26 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
We recently did some speed testing on a few of the servers on our network, and we were not receiving the speeds expected considering they were sitting on a physical 100mbps ethernet port. The servers were indeed on physical 100mbps connection, however wget (TCP/IP, HTTP Port 80) download tests showed only a max of about 1.5MB/sec (note the 8bit/byte conversion, so this translates to about 12mbits).
Categories: Linux,Software,System Administration,Ubuntu
Tagged: Ethernet, kernel, Linux, network, speed, tcp/ip
- Published:
- November 25, 2009 – 8:14 am
- Author:
- By Dave
This wouldn’t fit into the confines of twitter, but I had to share it: A Higgs-Boson walks into a church, the priest says “We don’t allow Higgs-Bosons in here.” The Higgs-Boson says “But without me how can you have mass?” from fora.tv via reddit Posted via web from Dave’s Desktop
Categories: Site Updates
- Published:
- October 30, 2009 – 6:40 am
- Author:
- By Dave
I put this together for a project in a class I am taking, and thought it would be handy for others as well. The goal is to access a Windows filesystem and reset the password for a user, for example if someone forgot the Administrator password or the account is locked out from too many [...]
Categories: Software,System Administration,Tech,Ubuntu,Windows
Tagged: chntpw, livecd, password, Ubuntu, Windows