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Blockbuster released it was entering a new era when Netflix, a little upstart that sent DVDs through the mail to viewers started to chisel away at their market share. Slowly but surely Blockbuster decided it needed to change and launched a similar DVD...
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It was perhaps two months ago that I joined Mint . Mint is an online financial application. You give it credentials to your accounts (credit cards, checking, savings) and it then pulls in information about payments, credits, and due dates. It analyzes...
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This blog as such is no longer maintained. If you are looking for information geared towards IT Professionals, try my new site - informednetworker.com .
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As a Network Engineer for Collages.Net I handle storage - lots of it. While the figures of yesterday, even on the enterprise level was oftentimes gigabytes or a few terabytes, now dozens or hundreds of terabytes is common-place, even amongst smaller businesses...
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Important: If you read this blog you need to move to my new location at www.davesbestofweb.com . This new site is entirely dedicated to the best of the web. Its still a blog, you can still subscribe by RSS feed - but its better and updated on a daily...
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There has been a major push by both Democrats and Republicans recently to pressure President George W. Bush into setting a firm timetable for the removal of troops from Iraq - either entirely or at least in their combat positions. This trend has been...
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Disclaimer: This How To is based on my personal experience. My suggestions may not always be the best route for all individuals, but I have attempted to give a reasonable method for purchasing a vehicle. Buying a car is a big investment. Charity and I...
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On July 3rd, 2007 when the day was done and gone my closing count on Google Adsense was $10.16. Its the first day I've broken $10 - in fact, on most days I was celebrating breaking $5. I've started a new website called The Network Engineer and...
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One of the more innovative companies in existence these days is GrandCentral - a company that seeks to allow individuals to keep one phone number for life. This number can ring a variety of different numbers - all at the same time and is highly customizable...
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Google recently received heavy fire for one of their employees, Lauren Turner, support of the "big healthcare systems" against Michael Moore and his recent documentary (?) release, Sicko. Wily Ferret has written an article over at The Inquirer...
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In college my freshman year I took a course with Prof. Don Cheyney entitled something like "The Purpose of the Church." In this class we had to read sections from an extremely long, dense, and dull book by Earl D. Radmacher entitled The Nature...
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Today we had our second annual (last year was canceled because of weather) water fight. The first year the girls had beat the guys quite solidly, though we were heavily outnumbered. This year, while there were more guys, there were still many more girls...
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eBooks were somewhat late '90's. Project Gutenberg was revolutionizing the world of e-texts and it felt as if every book would soon be an ebook. While Project Gutenberg is still going strong (and I am a big fan) readers quickly discovered that...
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The web may once again truly democraticize the election process in the United States and diversify who can and cannot be a political candidate. Wired has an excellent article on Ron Paul , a congressman from Texas who has attracted significant attention...
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Everyone knows about XML, but our familiarity with actually implementing in applications may vary. I personally have had minimal needs for XML thus far. As a hobbyist programmer I was mainly using SQL databases and the only significant portion of my site...