Antec's newest case:

I can only see it being good for motherboard/parts testing. But it does look pretty nice.

The first production "case" that I've seen that was made to be open, was nothing but 2 plastic sheets, 4 plastic bars, and a bunch of screw holes...

More info at ExtremeTech.

Jeez! Is it Deepak Chopra?

While on my fabulous vacation in San Francisco, I stumbled upon something that I find to be incredible.

We all know how easy and fast it is to set up different network options for OS X. When faced with a $8.99 per-day charge to use the hotel's network, one would do anything to find a way to get the internet without having to pay extra. Well, if you have a Macbook (or Macbook Pro), and a bluetooth enabled Blackberry with a data plan and EVDO service to the phone (like Sprint does), you can set up your phone to be a EVDO adapter for your computer. It is quite simple, really:

1. Create a bluetooth connection between the Mac and the phone.

2. Select the phone carrier (in my case it was Sprint).  read more »

There is always smth about VMware products that makes me start hating them right away. I personally prefer Microsoft Virtual Server in Windows environment just because when I tried VMware it didn't "click" with me. Interface made me feel uncomfortable.

Today I had a problem with Parallels (which is not a good product either) om my laptop. One of my virtual machines was eating all CPU resources. After tweaking some stuff, fresh install etc I found out that it's probably problem with Parallels.

So let's try VMware Fusion

works fine

but ...  read more »

It looks like that tomorrow Google is going to release it's own browser.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html

Doesn't really change a lot for me. Doesn't seem to be a big change for the IT industry. Just one more buggy browser for end users :)

mood: sceptical

I was lucky to have a cable tester on me

So, flipping through my latest copy of said computer magazine to catch up on the happenings of the tech world since I've been stuck in outdated IT workforce land, I come across some pretty sweet free gems:

Acrobat Reader 9

For all of us (like myself) who weren't paying attention, Acrobat Reader 9 came out. I totally didn't notice until today.

WorldWide Telescope

Microsoft does good with the freeware. Microsoft fans (yes, they do exist) are going nuts about it. Google fans, as well as we-love-free-shit-in-general fans are a bit skeptical. However, I suggest that you give it a spin. Because I certainly will.  read more »

There are actually plenty of them

Us, you'll may be like this one

Last week after my brother told me to try his company's virtual machine software, VMWare Fusion, over Parallels I thought had found a better solution. At first it seemed fast then I ran Parallels and Fusion on two Macbook Pro's side by side with same HW and did not see much of a different. Fusion seem a bit faster but did crash on the first try. I was just tired of people complaining about Parallels and thought Fusion could be bit of a better solution. Before I continue further to unravel my greatest discovery (lol..yeah) I should explain why some of the staff in my company are using Windows.  read more »

What summertime means for me? More work.

Servers and workstations are dying because of heat & thunderstorms. We decided not to replace servers anymore, instead we install thin client software so our customer don't have to have their own servers anymore. Everything runs from our location. There is a lot of stuff do.

Well, much to my surprise, brickedgeek looks very good when loaded from a smartphone. So far, I only had the opportunity to witness this from my own Crackberry Curve (which I am using to type this). So don't be afraid to come on down to BG while on your cellphone's web browser!

The load time isn't all that bad either.

WinPooch has been around for some time now, but many have not heard of them.

Well, if you're an experimenter of the Free Software world, I suggest you check it out!

And if you're not an experimenter...well, then...good for you? Yes, good for you...I guess...

Outlook versions prior to Outlook 2003 are dangerous. They have a limit of 2Gb for the size of the .pst file. Outlook will stop receiving or sending messages and if you're not lucky will say that pst file is corrupt.

The problem was fixed in Outlook 2003 and 2007 setting the maximum size of the file 20 Gb.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830336

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 have both a different format and a larger overall size limit for the personal folders (.pst) file than the .pst files that are in the earlier versions of Microsoft Outlook. In Outlook 2002 and earlier, the .pst files are in the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) format, and the overall size has a limit of 2 gigabytes (GB).  read more »

Today our sys.admin responsible for mail-servers showed statistics from our spam-firewall, which is one of those

http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/products/spam_specs.php

95% to 97% of the incoming mail was spam.

Kinda scary

Installed with a driver that came with OS and instead of one-page text document I've got 10 blank pages that went through printer. Had to turn off printer, clear queue on host PC, download and install driver from the manufacturer. It worked.