The I.T. Life

Within VMs the installation of every single Windows version is recorded.

The Asus EEE Slate EP121 has shown up on on Amazon for pre-order. This high-price high-end tablet boasts an Intel Core i5-470UM processor, up to 4GB of RAM, and a 64GB SSD. It features a 12.1-inch screen and is unfortunately ruining running Windows 7.

The cost is $999, and what cracks me up the most is this is a fair bit more than the iPad; which everyone thought was overpriced. What is going on that a Windows based product cost more than a Apple product?

I was reading a article on Techcrunch and it was talking about how this might be a good thing for this to happen. They mentioned that if Google and Yahoo merge than it would eliminate competition. That Microsoft would bring the Yahoo! brand up to what it once was, the homepage of the internet. And would also help add fuel to Yahoo’s fire of sites and techologies that seem to be struggling due to there lack of value. Lets face it, Yahoo! once ruled the internet, and now they don’t. They need cash, and Microsoft is probably one of the best sources to get it. If they keep the brand, and keep the sites, then this could be a excellent thing. Only time will tell though.

OK, ill give in, I’ll join in on the bandwagon just this one time. Yes, Microsoft has made a $44.6 Billion dollar bid to completely purchase yahoo and all stock. I’m willing to bet that this will go through, yahoo knows they cant compete with google, and they also know Microsoft can’t, so it might be a wise effort to take the cash, stop trying to do the impossible, and let Microsoft think they have a chance. However, my fear is what will happen to the internet. Yahoo runs alot of sites currently, my favorite is flickr. If you read the posts throughout flickr groups, there is a overall fear about this. Microsoft has a bad habbit of buying and killing good things, and I don’t want flickr to die. Here is the link.

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I love traveling, road trips, vacations, whatever, I just love to see the world. Of course, I love to photograph my trips. As many people like me, you end up with thousands of photos, and you often forget where the sweet jebus you took them. I mean, the east coast has a bagilion beaches, and its hard to tell them from each other. One of the nice things flickr does is let you place the photo on a map. This is all good and dandy… but somewhat time consuming. A) it takes a while to upload all your pics, write titles, descriptions, add tags, and then place them on a map. and B) go through old photos and figure out where you took them. So, here is a sweet solution Geotagging! You bring a gps along on your trip, and record a trip log. Basically, you end up with a text file, with exact quarantine’s, and time stamps. A big lost that when read with the right software allows you to view a path on a map of where you went. Now, there is some software that takes this list, and a group of photos, and then matches the time stamps. It will check to see when photo a was taken, where were you, than adds these quard’s to the photo details. Now, when you upload to flickr, it adds it to the map automatically. I suppose you dont save a step, because you have to match the files and picures, but if you have 200 photos from a trip, you only have to do this once, and not add 200 photos to a map. Plus, its so fun to link technology that has no similar designs.

I usually have quite a few side projects, and this year will be no different, except I plan to finish them all! (l0l). I am designing a new portfolio (should be done this week) that will allow you to update your home page, resume, etc, even the top level css all through a admin page. It will also allow you to manage mutiple portfolios through the same database and admin page (this will allow for very small secondary portfolios). This was well overdue but now I finally have some good reasons to do it. The second version will allow much easier editing of pages, without the need for html, but that will be later this year. After this I am going to finish my bookmark database site that is currently DOA, this will allow you to quickly login and bookmark a site for quick access anywhere, and also quick search through to find a site. This will also be seeing a version 2 later this year with features like bookmark exporting, and tag searching. Finally I will be starting this weekend a web + software application to organize all your cd / dvd / book’s. It will probably start with a very simple text list and a admin section for adding and removing, shortly after it will be linked into several external databases to get cover art, extra details etc. This will start with a database and .net app, and move into a web service, and website. Either way, I need to get to my real job now, designing pages for comedy central. Byes!

Ok, so, im a lazy and inventive person. Thus im a programmer (not a web designer, as my job may imply). So, instead of spending 15min reading my morning 8 or so web comics, i wrote a program that does it for me. Now, the version that I am uploading is not the most recent, however it is probably one of the best. It doesnt display the oversized comics of my choice, like ctrl-alt-del, and the outer circle, howver, it does display my 3 cell comics, and my 1 cell comics. I enjoy the program. I may finish the next version and get it to accept oversized comics, and make it work on sundays, however, for now, nobody needs to use my program on sunday, and, nobody needs to see oversized comics. Heres the link guys, check it out, tell me what ya think, and most of all, enjoy free software, ill be posting the code later, all my stuff is open source. However, it is under the beer license, meaning if you like it, and you ever meet me, you are obligated to buy me a beer, if you want. Its a nice open ended license, and it gets me free beer, asuming you like my program, meet me, and want to buy me beer. Yah, im gonna be getting lots of beer. Hey, maby I should put a section on www.jeffreyhann.com dedicated to my software, or just setup a section on The I.T. Life for my software. What do you guys think?

Ok, now just to make it even easier for you. The nice guys down at Firepages Created a preconfigured a suite called phpdev. It contains PHP, mysql, apache, and more all setup. Now this makes it easy. Check it out.

Finally, a good articly on setting up apache, php, perl, mysql, cgi, on a windows pc. Check this out, its the best way to test you web work befor the world does.

OK folks, heres a problem. If you click on the link you are forwarded to Microsofts website. Probably because the webstie i linked to doesnt like people linking to him. Oh well, go to http://www.ricocheting.com/server/
Copy and paste it in your browser and than lern about a server.

Now im sure we all are aware of the mac mini, and of shuttle pcs. However are you are aware of the other mini pcs. I love these little things, there sooo cute.
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