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Into the cloud

mranest — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:29:49 +0000

A series of two articles posted on Ars on the “cloud computing”.

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2008/12/hp-cloud-computing-interview.ars

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2009/02/into-the-cloud-a-conversation-with-russ-daniels-part-ii.ars

mranest — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:51:37 +0000

It appears that WiFi deviates a lot from the Plug-n-Play solution I had in mind. Just yesterday I helped a friend resolve her WiFi connectivity issues, by moving the channel allocated on her router from the default selection of automatic (which was apparently broken, since it left her on the busy Channel 1).

As always, Google and Wikipedia are our friends:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/inquisitor/2996

Rule of thumb is to try and use channel 1, 6 or 11 in order to avoid overlapping.

Another resume tip – Joel on Software

mranest — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:41:29 +0000

Interesting ideas on hand-tailoring your CV to match the job offer:

Another resume tip – Joel on Software.

New Nikon in the house!

mranest — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:47:29 +0000

Got my new D300 a dozen hours before the end of 2008! I’ve been reading the manual like crazy, and took it for a spin today along a walk to Pnyka. Check smugmug for a couple of pictures shot there:

http://mranest.smugmug.com/gallery/6998095_yWQ4b#447950552_rHjZr

Having shot 15k shots on a D70, I have fallen for the D300 as soon as it was announced. People that I respect for their photographic skills keep saying that a real photographer can shoot a terrific photo with a Kodak instamatic, but I’ve given up fighting the gadget lust. Here’s to the my next 30k photo shooting

The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk @25C3

mranest — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:02:00 +0000

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Switcher

mranest — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:34:51 +0000

Made up my mind to switch. Second day using the final version of Google Chrome, and I’m ready to do my daily Internet crunching the Google way. That means:

Leave all my old bookmarks behind, and start a-fresh using Google Bookmarks. Will be using the bookmarklet offered to quickly setup bookmarks, and have already setup a search engine to look them up.
Use Google Reader. No more FeedDemon, and that probably means that I’ll remove NetNewsWire from my iPhone, too.
Start using the online version of Google Talk. I’m tired of missing all the nice things like multi-party chats, Video chats etc.

#griots – Twitter Search

mranest — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:32:53 +0000

#griots – Twitter Search

Interesting how much closer Internet-age services like Twitter get us to the source of information. This is a live feed of twits re: the greek riots.