Jane Talks Tech!

a site for consumers, users and technology enthusiasts in 100 words or more ..

much ado about nothing

I scour Techmeme several times daily and titles like this “30 Seconds to boot up? That’s 29 too many” make me scratch my head. I love innovation just as much as the next person, but can we be realistic about things sometimes? I’m not on the cutting edge mostly because it’s expensive to be “cutting edge.” If you are like me, you will put up with 2 – 5 minute boot up times because you have no choice really (except spend more money on a faster system which you don’t particularly care to because you’re semi-broke). So, I ...

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much ado about nothing was published on Sunday, November 2, 2008 at 2:59pm and tagged , , , , , , , and . Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

Dreamhost has a sense of humor

dreamhost welcome pageAs you may or may not know, I’ve learned how to tunnel my wifi sessions through an SSH tunnel, thanks largely to Dreamhost. Well, I logged into my shell account via Putty and I found this little nugget. It’s basically ascii art and it spells the  name of my server. lol. Enjoy and with that, I launch my tech blog! I'm pretty satisfied with my current Hosting set up and I am looking forward to getting some serious traffic. Today was a none-working day (Happy Halloween!) and I didn't do much tech-surfing i.e. my term for surfing technology related sites ...

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Dreamhost has a sense of humor was published on Friday, October 31, 2008 at 12:36pm and tagged , , , , , , , and . Respond to this article by writing the first comment.