This weekend I download and installed the Beta relase of Windows 7 build 7000. The Good: Easy to Upgrade and Install.¬¨‚Ć Works much faster than Vista.¬¨‚Ć Seems to have better compatibility with programs than Vista. The Bad: Looks just like Vista.¬¨‚Ć Shouldn’t this just be a Service Pack upgrade for Vista rather than a new […]
My younger brother Wesley sent me a link to the website www.playlist.com. The more I fiddled with this website the more impressed I’ve become.¬¨‚Ć So far this site has been able to play any song I can think of.¬¨‚Ć Simply type in any song in the search box and it will start playing. Better yet […]
I have been looking around on the web for a wordpress plugin for online surveys that is compatible with WordPress 2.7. It appears that really the only true plugin that works well with the latest version of WordPress is SurveyGizmo.¬¨‚Ć Although this plugin does not truly exist on its own since it requires you to […]
Saturday I built a machine using quality parts on a budget of under 300$.¬¨‚Ć My cousin requested my help after a bad incident with electricity reduced his old AMD K7 based motherboard to junk.¬¨‚Ć Using Newegg.com, crucial.com¬¨‚Ć and a few other online bargain websites I was able to build a Core 2 Duo 2.4 GZ […]
Recently I have run across an old system that uses a serial interface to manage heating and cooling at the Middle School.¬¨‚Ć The boiler system’s heater control panel had been managed by and old PC with a custom program that used a serial connection to program schedules and manage alerts.¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć This older machine had a […]
Over the break I have made considerable progress on creating a new 10 Gigabit fiber backbone with 1 gigabit end ports that will eventually upgrade and replace the districts original network.¬¨‚Ć The new switches are all Catalyst 3560E switches which have slots for two 10 gigabit conections and have 48 end ports at 1000 mbps […]