tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55870332009-07-09T16:00:27.197-05:00The life and times of (LTo) Andrew Gearhart... online.Andrew 'Mickey Knox' Gearharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427329017074244903noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587033.post-52568074888229114542009-07-09T15:13:00.001-05:002009-07-09T15:13:05.755-05:00

Okay, let's lay things out. (1) If you have an open mind, keep reading. If you have already made a decision that Google Chrome OS is NOT going to be anything but short of a game changer, stop reading and move along. If you're willing to listen to why the nay-sayers that are being so vocal against Chrome OS could be wrong... read on.One of the common statements that has been made about Chrome OS

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I've written the following as a general explanation of what is wrong with the idea of blindly forwarding emails (many of which end up being false).If you're not sure if something is true, verify it! You're using one of the largest information resources ever created... the Internet. Verifying an email is a very easy thing to do. Grab a 4-5 word quote from the email and any proper nouns (English

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People may think I'm upset... but the title of the post is just reflecting a few of the notification tools that are available throughout the various operating system platforms. Bear with me on this one as I want to get this posted before I get to bed... so... some of these sentences may be a bit rambling/run-on. I'm sorry. Here are the various tools that I've found on the different operating

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This post is in regard to an email forward that I received that was similar to the one re-posted for educational purposes on snopes.com: What does Obama read?Perhaps we can stop this now, rather than later. I have been fighting a war against incorrect forwards for quite a while now (well, since 1995 when I first logged onto the Internet).Forwarding incorrect information is bad. It is a hindrance

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I went to Mike's bachelor party this weekend. We're a bunch of relatively simple guys. Nerds, but simple... this was the kind of entertainment that we enjoyed. Without further ado... Mike Juggling on a bridge of stones that we made.

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I simply had to write about the absolutely amazing race that occurred last night at the Olympic 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final. At this point, you've probably heard what happened. If you haven't seen it, you need to watch it. It was an amazing finish for a race and you haven't really experienced it till you see it yourself.To setup:France is favored to win the Men's 4x100 Freestyle Relay. The race

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I just found a tool that will allow me to create OpenOffice documents from within PHP. A few days ago, when I began the hunt, I located PHP DocWriter which seemed to fit the bill from the instructions... but the files that it generated in the example were noted as corrupted when I tried to read the files from OpenOffice. That doesn't give me much hope. So, I kept looking around... and today found

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If you're looking for something to get me as a present (whatever occasion)... the best thing for me right now is money: the United States of America's designated currency, the American dollar. I thought long and hard about posting this because I feared people would think poorly of me for presuming that I in any way deserved a present. So, let me say this... if you don't think I deserve a present

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It took me three evenings of casually watching this to gradually get through this amazing work. Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) used to have a lecture series where they encouraged professors to produce a lecture that would reflect what they would talk about if they were giving their last lecture. Dr. Randy Pausch, professor of Computer Science at CMU provided his contribution to that lecture

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The Seattle Post Intelligencer has an interesting article about Google's track record on "curbing free speech."I could go on for hours about this particular topic; it suffices to say this:Google is operating in a multinational environment. We've seen in many cases (Iraq is a prime example) that a free-speech democratic environment isn't suitable for all societies. Perhaps, someday, our world

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It's official that the CPL has ceased operations. In fact, this has been the case for about two months now. The big question in my mind is this: "What is next for E-Sports and how does it affect LANParties?"In case you haven't been in on this, I ran LANParty.com for almost five years. In that time, there were good times and bad times. But the thing that ran true throughout the entire time is the

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Ahhh... So,... to report back in to the millions that are waiting with baited breath to find out how my wireless Internet service provider network is working... well... it isn't. At least not consistently. I put it up and take it down as I have the time to test it. This week will begin a new round of testing with the Oregon firmware.The problem? Well, its been a combination of a few things, let's

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This afternoon, after a rainstorm passed through, Isaac and Elijah were insisting that they wanted to go outside. Since everything was still SOAKED in the grass... there wasn't much space for them to do anything (plus, it was still lightly drizzling). So, I popped up the baby-gate on the back porch and cleared it off so there was space for them to wander around. Mind you, there wasn't anything to

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US Patent 6816878 - A system for providing a warning signal to a plurality of persons and/or locations on a geographic basis comprising...Okay. I understand the spirit in which this patent was awarded. However, the awarded language is too general. I'm looking at this and I can't imagine how a whole slew of systems don't infringe on this patent! It is, in fact, stifling innovation. I cannot, in

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Profy.com today posited the notion that Google has jumped the shark in the post "Is Google App Engine a Sign that Google's Jumped the Shark?"I'd like to respond here to that notion. You see, proposing that a group has jumped the shark is a truly sinister accusation. Essentially, it alludes to the idea that the group (company, tv show, organization) has strayed from its roots and is moving into

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You know, its really nice to see that others are going through the same types of consternation that I am!Trent@TheSimpleDollar talks about his personal debate over the type of workstation to get now that he is writing full-time.Personally, I'm running into a similar situation. For years, both my wife and I have had workstations at home. About two years ago, Vikki's workstation went away as she

Andrew 'Mickey Knox' Gearharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13427329017074244903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587033.post-92031771788256636832008-03-18T09:06:00.001-05:002008-03-18T09:06:33.431-05:00

I loathe reading/watching/listening to mainstream media report on technology. It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion. You know what you're watching is going to be a gruesome disaster. You know there's nothing you can do to stop it from happening. You know that you can't stop watching.In large part, this can be avoided by keeping most of your eyeball time in the "blogosphere" for

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Okay people... Just because a wireless network is encrypted, does not mean it is secure.Long story short: use public wi-fi, but use it with the security technologies that you should be using on the Internet anyway.If you are on a network and not using encryption for your communications (SSL/HTTPS for web browsing or a VPN to your corporate network... or SSH to communicate with a server),

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Unlike prior February 19ths... the one that is less than one year away will be a very important one in the United States. In case you don't know, on 2/19/2009... we'll be losing analog television and only digital television will be allowed to be broadcast in the United States. This should increase the quality of most television signals. That is not why its important though.Because of the switch

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Had a reminder from God this morning. He said, "stop rushing and do things right."This morning was a typical one, got the boys ready at 7:15am, got them into their clothes and coats and out to the car around 7:30am. I started the car... and it had a bit of a hard time. It's cold this morning... right around 10 degrees... so I figured it was due to the cold and the battery that hasn't been

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Its interesting to note that it is possible for businesses to completely alienate a large majority of their customer base in only a year. Keep in mind, this is not an easy task. Most businesses can't do it without eliminating product lines or making significant changes to pricing structures.Well, remarkably, Meraki has done a 180 in less than a year by doing a variation on both of these themes.

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Just finished up reading a review of Quad vs Dual core Intel processors (specifically Core2Duo 6420 vs Core2Quad 6600). The practice of the review was good. They used a system where the processors could simply be traded out on the motherboard. The processors use all the same settings other than the selection of the processor. This made a very easy comparison. However, the review lacked a certain

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It's good to be back. The last couple of weeks I've taken a bit of time away from the computer to reflect on a few things. This week I was called back to the computer by two technical support calls. I figure if I'm getting back into the grove for those... I may as well really get back into the grove of things. So, I'm back. Yea!

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It seems that this week Windstream pulled the classic Verisign blunder. Domain names that do not exist in DNS systems around the world are now resolving to (principally) wwww23.entry-not-found.com (63.251.179.32). This is a trick where the DNS operator is trying to monetize a simple information stream by "typo squatting" every unresolved domain. Modifying slightly what was written in the "Stop

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Most of us are tied to our workplace. Truth be told, I'm very happy at my current job. I work for a small software company and I enjoy my position there. I have the ability and time to try new things while also progressing with a few day-to-day tasks. That said, it wasn't always this way for me. In fact, I struggled to find a job where I was truly happy for the first four years that I was out of

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