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The Disappearing Sense of Place

The workplace is evolving: as telecommuting becomes more common, the office now goes to the worker rather than the worker goes to the office. This radical shift frees corporations from costly real estate and severs the last geographic ties to any sense
Apr 19 2010 09:10 PM
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Zombieee

After my old laptop started acting up, like, constantly I grew tired of it and bought an Asus Eee Pc to have something to surf the net on. Back then, I lacked the money to buy a “real” computer. Then I got some money and bought my new rig a
 
mizipzor
Mar 22 2010 10:08 PM
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New addition to my computer family

A good while back, Chris Muir said that he didn't expect to see "Oracle running on the EeePC (Oracle XEeePC, or ZeepC)" at OpenWorld.Well I've never made it to OpenWorld, but have just added 'Middy' to my computer family, an ASUS EEEPC 1001HA.Th
 
Gary Myers
tags: laptop
Feb 16 2010 03:54 PM
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PDC09 Keynote Day 2 - Silverlight 4.0 and Free Laptops?!

Say goodbye to WinForms, WPF, and maybe even AJAX.  Today Scott "The Gu" Guthrie took the stage and blew everyone away with the extensive desktop-app replacing features of Silverlight 4.   This occurred directly after the exciting
Nov 19 2009 05:34 AM
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Kubuntu 9.10 on Compaq CQ60 215DX

This article will be a series of short rants. 1. A lot of people complain about broken suspend/resume on laptops with Linux. Usually, it is fixable, just search for your laptop model. In the case of this model, the fix is the same as Ubuntu/Kubuntu 9.04:
Nov 11 2009 03:52 PM
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GPU problem (NVIDIA GeForce 9600M)

Just a few days since my laptop returned from repair it started to behave weird again. Graphical artifacts corrupted the screen beyond readability. Its been almost a year since I last did a clean wipe on it so I thought maybe now is the time. Grabbing a
 
mizipzor
Oct 21 2009 11:43 PM
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Stupid Ubuntu Trick #005 : Making the touchpad less touchy

This page : Synaptics Touchpad : Community Ubuntu Documentation has a fantastic fix for the problem of bumping the touchpad while typing. This is a big problem typing on the Compaq CQ60 215DX, the laptop I use. It has a large touchpad and the natural
Oct 12 2009 11:47 AM
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A week of Windows 7

I've been playing with Windows 7 Beta for just under a week now. Initially I thought I'd install it in a virtual machine, but I never seemed to have enough space on my laptop. I also had an issue with my Vista install - a lockup that forced me to do a
Mar 09 2009 11:45 PM