Just wanted to post some instagram pictures of the repairs I have been doing lately. Enjoy!
Category Archives: General
Cheap Tablets vs iPad2 – A Canadian View
Update2: Google themselves have released a new answer in the Nexus 7, a quad-core tablet built by Asus. At $200 and running the latest Android OS (4.1 Jellybean), there is really no other budget tablet worth buying. Update: It looks like Samsung has answered this question. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 is a $250…
Twitter, front-line employees, and Android… an idea.
Last January, I went to an absolutely amazing event called Podcamp. It was a grand meeting of best Halifax has to offer in social media and internet marketing. To find out more check out some of the truly inspirational talks on the website: http://www.podcamphalifax.ca/ One point I took from the event was what twitter is…
Chromebooks – Student friendly?
You see it on many campuses every fall. Credit card companies and their booths. Smiles and free chocolate bars. Students looking forward to becoming adults and taking control of their own finances. They sign up, burn to the limit, and pile up debt that can follow them around for years… You can probably see where…
Skype Fix – May 26th, 2011
Skype fix: Windows 7: Delete C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Skype\shared.xml- Windows XP: Delete C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Skype\shared.xml MacOSX: Delete /Library/Application Support/Skype/shared.xml Then restart skype.
Resurrecting a Classic
It started a few months ago. I was handed a 14” IBM Thinkpad T42 that had unfortunate run-in with a tall cup of coffee. It had been dead for quite some time. It was sad to see such a beautiful machine shot down in the prime of its life… Well, it is actually about…
Close enough…
My new site is not finished yet, but I am just sick of my old site. I’ll be working on this more the next few weeks. I hope that the new blog-style format will encourage me to blog more. So, UNDER CONSTRUCTION and all that jazz…
At the Atlantic Eco Expo
September 18th and 19th I participated in the Atlantic Eco Expo to show off my new desktop virtualization in a box prototype. It was great to actually show this to people who had never heard of anything like this before (which was pretty much everyone). People really seemed to like the idea. I introduced a…
Mike Lovell and the Quest for the 95W Hexacore CPU
Whoa, it’s been a long time since my last post. Anyway, I’m still trying to lock down the hardware on my “desktop virtualization in-a-box” prototype lovingly codenamed greenBox. The specs so far are: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban 6 Core Processor 2.8GHZ Socket AM3Shuttle SA76G2 Black BarebonesWestern Digital Caviar Black 1TB x 2OCZ Platinum…
greenBox update
I have been working on the software side of my greenBox Project as of late. I just wanted to make a quick update on my progress. I have the setup working pretty much the same as it did in Ubuntu 9.10 on Ubuntu 10.04, and, I have to say, Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) seems…