I had a chance to sit down and use the Asus Eee PC 701SD. It had Xandros installed as the manufacturer default operating system. It’s very basic and wasn’t that impressive in anyway. The system itself has an Intel Celeron M processor but I’m not sure of the exact speed. I’ve read some that it [...]
Last month, Royal Bank ran a promotion for a free Asus Eee PC (pronounced “E”) if any customers who upgrade to their Signature No Limit banking package. I was updated to that package automatically because the package that I was using before was no longer available. The difference between my current package and the qualifying [...]
The guys and I in the I.T. department don’t always get appreciated for the work that we done. Without us, things around here wouldn’t be this smooth but then again, without the user, we wouldn’t have a job. Every now and then it’s nice to get some positive feedback from the users to let us [...]
It only took me four working days but I’ve finally managed to retrieve the data from an encrypted drive. I was so stressed out from this ordeal that I couldn’t sleep at night. The impact of the whole thing didn’t set it right away but once I realized that the data on the hard drive [...]
I spent a good ten hours or so at work trying to recover some information that was stored on a coworker’s machine. But so far, every idea that I had has been a failure. I got an idea, I tried out that idea, I waited and then I was let down. I don’t know if [...]
Word of mouth goes a long way. When a friend of mine tells me good or bad things about a certain place, I sometimes take their word for it. But there are times when I prefer to do things myself before judging. Not everyone thinks like me and I know of a few people that [...]
For the last few years, I’ve always gone with Rogers as my cellular phone service provider. When I first started, the price was great and so was the service but as the years go by things started to get a little expensive. Now, it has gotten to the point where I don’t need all those [...]
Since the launch of Firefox 3, I’ve been playing around with some of the add-on that are available. I came across one called PicLens. It’s a cool little tool that allows you to view images in a 3D environment. It even saves you from having to click on each individual image to view it.
When I [...]
At the recommendation of Willy, I’ve decided to give Linux on a Stick another shot. It appears that installing Fedora 9 onto a USB stick was a lot easier than installing Ubuntu. Instead of installing the distro from CD, I decided to download the ISO and use a tool to install it onto a USB [...]
For the past couple of days, I’ve been attempting to install Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron on a USB flash stick. I’ve followed the tutorials word for word and so far, it’s sort of working. My only problem is that nothing saves. I’m trying to follow the other tutorials that show you how to save your [...]