default Windows icon on a Mac

Mac computers, just like Windows scans your local network and shows a list of computers you can connect to. If you have a mixed network of Macs and Windows machines, then both of them still will find one another and offer to establish a connection. The strangest thing is on a Mac OSX if it [...]

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July 24th, 2011 by Roma

IPv6 myths and facts

What’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. [...]

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June 4th, 2011 by Roma

I support .Roma TLD

.Roma is a great idea from the City of Roma. The city of Rome, once the centre of the Roman Empire and now the keeper of an invaluable artistic heritage and a landmark destination for millions of tourists, deserves its own Internet Address. Everyone knows about .com, .net and .org and course there’s .it for [...]

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March 8th, 2011 by Roma

RA.vg New simple URL Shortener

There 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 [...]

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February 19th, 2011 by Roma

Gmail gets new interface update

Did 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 [...]

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February 16th, 2011 by Roma

Getting new D-SRL camera Nikon D3100

From 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 [...]

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February 13th, 2011 by Roma

Solid State Drives (SSD) Reliability Myths

Today 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 [...]

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February 1st, 2011 by Roma

Crazy strict Quora rules

Not much to say there. You can see from the screenshots. Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. The most important thing is to have each question page become the best possible resource for someone who wants to know about the question.

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January 20th, 2011 by Roma

The Beauty of Solid State Drives

As 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 [...]

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January 20th, 2011 by Roma