Archive for the ‘Opinion’ Category
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
The very day the Apple TV was available in Apple stores, I picked one up. I reviewed it, even made a video about it (which wound up on some big websites). I loved the Apple TV madly. There were a few flaws - like no on/off switch, heat ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
After learning that Verizon's FiOS service was made available in my neighborhood, I scheduled installation of the 15/2mbps service. The excitement was nearly unbearable!
Pre-pre InstallationOn June 13th, the first Verizon tech showed up to run a line from the sidewalk to the garage. The house is less than 3 ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
I recently ordered a single DAT7 tape for a server. TechDepot had the best price at the time, so I went with them. When the tape arrived, it was packaged in the huge box pictured below. That box could easily fit 80 tapes, maybe more.
What ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Back in January 2008, I wrote about a great customer service experience with Parallels. Out of the blue, they sent me a $10 Visa gift card as a thank you for buying Parallels 3.0.
This afternoon I opened my mailbox to find an envelope from Parallels. When I opened ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
After testing the OCZ 32GB USB 2.0 flash drive for backing up some servers (and being disappointed), I thought I'd try to use it as a bootable drive for OS X trouble shooting. Here's a quick overview of how things went.
Formatting the 32GB OCZ Flash Drive for booting ...
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