Archive for November, 2007

Eee PC: Low Cost Portable Computing

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 23 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Technology, Videos

Just in time for Black Friday, the ASUS Eee PC has to be the most exciting technology product of this year. The Eee PC is a tiny 7″ computer that weighs just under a kilogram. The current models are being sold with Linux, but ASUS will be releasing a Windows version later this year.

OLPC Is [...]

Who Is Hosting This?

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 20 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Business

Web designers will appreciate this site. It will find the web hosting company that a web site is being hosted on simply by entering its web address. Who Is Hosting This is a great tool for determining the capabilities of a web host before you try working on a client’s site and adding features.

In many [...]

Bugatti vs. Eurofighter

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 15 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: General, Videos

This is the ultimate drag race, a Bugatti Veyron versus a Eurofighter EF-2000. This video was brought to my attention by Ian Paterson. I’ve included a few statistics on each racer to give you an idea how they are matched.

 
Bugatti Veyron
Eurofighter EF-2000

Maximum Speed
253 mph
1280 mph (Mach 2.0)

Maximum Range at Top Speed
25 miles
690 miles

Power Plants
8.0 L [...]

Quick and Easy Cron Tutorial

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 14 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Tech Tips

Cron is an application in Unix or Linux systems that runs another program or script at a certain date and time. Its runs continuously in the background similar to Scheduled Tasks in Windows. Cron is typically used to run system administration tasks such as e-mailing you the status of your server. In order to use [...]

WordPress 2.3.1

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 12 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: General

The latest version of WordPress was released 17 days ago, but I was hesitant in upgrading to it. When I tried upgrading to version 2.3 49 days ago, various plugins failed on my blog and I wasn’t able to post new content. I spent a couple of hours trying to make it work and ended [...]

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