Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category

A Month later?

Wow, a lot’s happened in the last month.   Where to start, where to start? MovieSnobs is doing great.   We set a new record for unique visitors per day last month (average), and are already on par this month to beat that record.   Christine’s been kicking ass, spending a lot of time working [...]

New Computer – Migration In Progress

I finally gave in, and purchased a new computer yesterday. Namely, the one I’ve had my eye on for the last few weeks. I splurged, and bought it yesterday, from CompUSA. Smartly, over the border, to save on tax. Specs: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 quad-core processor, dual 320 GB hard drives, 3 GB RAM [...]

Synergy makes life easy

I’m working from home today, for the first time. When I used to work from home at my last job, I could just use my computer here, connect to the VPN, and have access to everything I needed. The new company, however, does things a little differently, and I’ve got a “work laptop”, which is [...]

One Monitor? Two Monitors? More?

Ever since I started using a dual monitor set up at home (two 19″ Samsung LCD monitors), I can’t live without two monitors. When I started my new job here, they gave me a fairly beat up old laptop. Which is fine, I can cope with 15″ to look at. The bad news was the [...]