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Opera and the System Tray

David — Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:43 +0000

Opera and the System Tray

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Opera and the System TrayPost from: David Lari's Blog Copyrighted material. All rights reserved. The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy "For thinking laymen." Image via Wikipedia As my readers may know, I use the Opera web browser as my primary browser. In...

Opera Web Browser

David — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:30 +0000

Opera Web Browser

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Opera Web BrowserPost from: David Lari's Blog Copyrighted material. All rights reserved. I’ve been using Opera as my main web browser for many years, since the 5.x version. A lot of the features we take for granted today were either popularized or invented in Opera....

Cloud Computing Worries

David — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:00:56 +0000

Cloud Computing Worries

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Cloud Computing WorriesPost from: David Lari's Blog Copyrighted material. All rights reserved. Image via Wikipedia So, I first wrote about cloud computing a while back. It’s all the rage these days. But I’m skeptical, as are a number of others. I’ve been bitten by cloud...

Windows Home Server

David — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:00:13 +0000

Windows Home Server

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Windows Home ServerPost from: David Lari's Blog Copyrighted material. All rights reserved. So, Friday evening, the UPS man brought my pile of parts from Newegg and I began assembling my new file server. I could have just used my old hardware, except for the fact...

The FREENAS Experiment

David — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:00:51 +0000

The FREENAS Experiment

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The FREENAS ExperimentPost from: David Lari's Blog Copyrighted material. All rights reserved. In November of 2007, I built a file server using the FreeBSD based FreeNAS. I have blogged about it many times. However, I think my experiment is coming to an end. Back in...

A Sign of the End?

David — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:00:32 +0000

A Sign of the End?

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A Sign of the End?Post from: David Lari's Blog Copyrighted material. All rights reserved. The Russian’s did it first. We did it second. Then the Chinese, and if all goes to plan, next it will be India’s turn. What is it? Manned space flight. But,...

Tablet Computing

David — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Tablet Computing

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Tablet ComputingPost from: David Lari's Blog Copyrighted material. All rights reserved. I first played with a tablet computer some fifteen years ago. At that time, the technology just wasn’t where it needed to be. Sure, there have been specialty devices like the UPS and Fedex...

Free Icons

David — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:00:58 +0000

Free IconsPost from: David Lari's Blog Copyrighted material. All rights reserved. If you need a really nice, large set of free icons to use in your web or desktop applications, I recommend the Fugue set. As of November 30, 2009, it has 2360 icons, includes...

Windows 7 64-Bit

David — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:00:23 +0000

Windows 7 64-BitPost from: David Lari's Blog Copyrighted material. All rights reserved. So, I tried out Microsoft Windows 7 over the Thanksgiving holiday, and I’ve got a few issues with it. First, it really smells like Vista. This thing really does just seem to be...

ASUS Eee PC Netbooks Power Adapter Problem

David — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:00:23 +0000

ASUS Eee PC Netbooks Power Adapter ProblemPost from: David Lari's Blog Copyrighted material. All rights reserved. Many people have discovered an issue with the power adapters on the ASUS netbooks. I’m not sure how many models have this problem, but if you have the power...