I went to a local Safeway grocery store to buy some milk the other day. Once I picked up the desired half gallon of milk I went directly to the Express Line because I had only one item. The line clearly says 15 items or less. I noticed that in front of me the two [...]
Go to post pageWhat’s all the IPv6 buzz about? Many companies, bloggers and computer network enthusiasts believe there is a crisis of IP addresses because current protocol IPv4 is 98% allocated and only 2% left unallocated to any company or person. They believe it’s almost similar to Y2K problem that everyone was so afraid of and nothing happened. [...]
Go to post pageThere was born a new url shortener – ra.vg. I highly suggest using it to everyone. It is public, free and stable shortener that will not get affected by politics or restrictions on the middle east and other countries. The .vg tld is for British Virgin Islands which is a developed, independent and democratic country. You can [...]
Go to post pageThere are tons of fraudulent orders from China, Malaysia, Vietnam. There are some interesting cases from Nigeria too, but very rare. We fight fraud every day by blocking not just IPs but blacklisting whole ranges of IPs, ISPs and networks. As well as using some other techniques. The fraudsters try to come up with new [...]
Go to post pageDid anyone else notice the new Gmail interface update today? Notice the new tabs and the settings on the right. It’s looking so much better than the previous version, but when clicking on Calendar or other tabs you loose the interface. So looks like Google is still working on updates and interface unification across other [...]
Go to post pageFrom my Geer page, I copy the excerp here: I’m a big fan of taking pictures, but I never liked bulky professional D-SLR cameras even though I respect them. If I ever buy one, I would be lazy to take it with me all the time. I’ve had a few cameras in past, but today I [...]
Go to post pageToday is the day. It’s the day when I finally realized the Solid State Drives are not ready for the ‘prime time’. They don’t fit either personal/home requirements nor enterprise. At ASPnix we have posted this Announcement today: As many of our customers know in the past 3-5 days mail server has become quite unstable [...]
Go to post pageAs soon as I clicked ‘Publish’ my previous post about Mac, I noticed my Mac slowed down and crashed a few programs asking to report the crash to Apple. I’ve been noticing the slowness since morning and wasn’t sure what was going on. So I closed all my programs (which caused some more crashing) and [...]
Go to post pageMy Dell Studio XPS1340 got old and started to fall appart. I really liked the model so decided to get Dell Studio 1458. After what happened with it the first few days I could not stand HP or Dell computers anymore because I really needed a reliable computer for every day work. I decided to try [...]
Go to post pageI’m updating my Geer page because I got new laptop that just works after many problems with HP and Dell Computers. My last working laptop was Dell Studio XPS 1340 and here’s a copy from my geer page that I removed from there to update it with new stuff. Most will argue that this is [...]
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