technology & software development blog by matt geri
February 23rd, 2009
One of the most challenging things I am finding at the moment in my life is the ability to juggle my time and fit everything I need to do into my daily routine. I have 3 tasks that I see as major TODO’s for each day. They are:
Work
Study
Blog/Projects
Each of the above are extremely important to [...]
February 11th, 2009
I recently found the need to setup a home server to do backups and to store common files that are needed around the house. So, I had a computer lying around doing nothing (a pretty decent machine actually) and decided that I would use it for a home server. The operating system of choice was [...]
February 9th, 2009
I purchased a blue Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop near the end of last year to use as my main “work station”. Out of the box it came with Windows Vista but I was quick to switch to Ubuntu Linux and needless to say I have been pretty pleased with the machine. Here is my review [...]
February 5th, 2009
I can’t remember where I picked this up (I think it was on twitter), but it is definitely an interesting read. It is basically an article that runs a bunch of benchmark tests on Ubuntu, Windows Vista and Windows 7 an compares the results. They got a pretty decent machine from Dell to run the [...]
February 4th, 2009
I was pretty excited this morning when I opened my Gmail inbox and found that Google had pushed through some pretty cool buttons and menus. I have been waiting a long time for some of the changes they made to the labeling of emails. This is what the new buttons and menus look like:
Pretty spiffy [...]
February 3rd, 2009
Things are about to get a lot busier in my life (as if they are not busy enough already) as I am about to embark on another year of study! Today I received all my tutorial letters and study guides from UNISA and I nearly fell off my chair with the amount of material.
I am [...]
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