Archive for November, 2010
November 3rd, 2010 | 
Author: The point of computers is to help us do more work, more efficiently. This is often forgotten and we can often find ourselves devoting more time to maintaining our computers than we would have spent doing the tasks in the first place. Calendars are one simple thing that a computer can do well. However, even here you can slip up.
Every computer has at least a basic calendar, usually combined with the clock. However, other programs may also feature calendars of different levels of complexity and here is how you can become disorganised. Always make sure that you use one calendar to remind you of things that you need to do.
To give an example, I have a work PC, a home PC and a laptop. I have work reminders set on my work PC, as this is the only place where they will ever apply. This is fair enough. However, I only have personal reminders on my home PC, not my work one, nor my laptop. This is bad organisation because I could quite easily go several days without checking the calendar on that computer, thus negating the point of it.
The alternative is to use online calendars. With an online calendar, you can log in from whichever computer you happen to be using and nothing will get by you.
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You could kind of argue that this monster was CPU limited, but this 4 way SLI machine will be able to churn through more polygons than you are likley to need for a long time.
The system needs a 1.5 Kilowatt power supply and roughly about £3000-4000 to buy. I’m not even sure if you’d need to write your own drivers to push that much power through a single display. Either way its a mighty impressive (if pointless) exercise.
The huge CPU cooler you can see here is there because the whole thing is overclocked some insanely large amount (they’d be better off with water cooling, but hey)
In the news this week is the story that Sony is stopping manufacturing Floppydisks in March 2011. I must confess I still feel a little uncomfortable if I am on a PC that doesn’t have a flopydisk drive. I still think they are still a useful device for restoring and installing base drivers.
I agree they are unreliable and, to be honest, a pretty crappy way of storing data, but I used one only a couple of months ago to install some SATA drivers onto a Windows XP machine. Doing the same with a usb drive would have been impossible at the time and the CD was in use to install Windows XP on.
I think they do still have a place as the ultimate last-resort. I will mourn them when they are gone.
After meeting with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection center, Facebook has decided not to put a panic button on their site.
Facebook claim their site is one of the safest places on the Internet.. I’m inclined to agree.. It’s not as if a panic button will make any difference. Children nowadays are well aware of what goes on online and if they don’t it’s time we told them how to be safe. If a child feels threatened online there’s only one place I’d suggest the child goes – the parents.
It’s clear to me that immature kids would abuse this pretty regularly.. making the whole thing pretty obsolete.. There’s a big red X in the corner of every website that can always be used if someone find themselves in trouble:
Firefox is the internet browser of choice for those in the internet business. It is much more user friendly than the most popular Internet Browser (Internet Explorer), as it offers a variety of plug-ins which give extra functionality to the browser which is why it is so popular amongst those in the internet world.
Now Firefox have announced that they are only days away from launching a mobile phone version of their browser. Initially the browser will only be available on the Nokia N900 phone. The mobile browser will be able to synchronise with your desktop version and should be available for download before the end of the year.
Those with iphones will have to wait a little longer for the release.
Here are some of the latest Tweets about computers on 02/11/2010:
cffatboy @KToogie It’s called welfare and I’m completely against it. Everyone can be useful and earn an income in this age of computers & phones. half a minute ago via Twitter for iPhone
bugpreaw Toshiba Portégé R705-P41 TruBrite LED 13.3-Inch Laptop (Metal/Blue) (Personal Computers) newly tagged “laptop”: … http://amzn.to/cdQLaZ half a minute ago via twitterfeed
acnethaionline Toshiba Portégé R705-P41 TruBrite LED 13.3-Inch Laptop (Metal/Blue) (Personal Computers) newly tagged “laptop”: … http://amzn.to/d8S1JT half a minute ago via twitterfeed
Zendimz #German cameras, #Swiss watches, #Apple computers…some things are just better made than others #CultStatus 1 minute ago via web
eMarketing_Tips Digital canvas: Artist David Hockney explains why he truned to tablet computers to display… http://goo.gl/fb/EE92X 1 minute ago via Google
macnewsspot Really cheap apple mac laptop? | Apple Laptop Computers.org: I’m not really familiar with apple’s computers/laptop… http://bit.ly/aEpLwk 2 minutes ago via twitterfeed
More to follow.