Archive for 'computers'
the acer netbook + windows 7
Wireless signals flood the air to accommodate the mobile world always on the go. Most technophiles these days are equipped with either a smartphone or a netbook under $200 (or around that price) if they need to travel around with their geek gear.
Acer has an attractive line of netbooks on sale right now. These puppies [...]
Posted by Sig on February 10th, 2010 at 8:44pm under computers, random, writing.
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the terabytes for under $84 each
Disk storage keeps getting cheaper as technology continues to advance. As a data collector, this always keeps me interested. A 2TB SATA internal hard drive with a 32MB cache from Hitachi is currently on sale for $168 with free shipping. Hard drive space is well into the terabyte zone, and they’ll just keep getting bigger [...]
Posted by Sig on January 30th, 2010 at 1:33pm under computers, random, writing.
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the hybrid video recorder
I’ve been looking for a USB device or special video card that will allow me to watch and record antenna TV on my computer since the DTV transition. I found this one this weekend on sale. For a little more than forty bucks after the rebate, I can watch high definition digital TV on my [...]
Posted by Sig on January 24th, 2010 at 8:58pm under computers, random, television, writing.
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the forward momentum
Wow. The weekend is almost already here again. We’re already nearing the middle of the first month of the new year. Time is not slowing down by any means.
Mondays thru Fridays from 7am to 3pm at my day job that pays the bills, I am a drone that completes the connection. I am a robot [...]
Posted by Sig on January 14th, 2010 at 5:12pm under DVD and Blu-ray, computers, life, school, television.
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the saturday burn party
A “Fitter Happier” homage for nerdkind:
What’s going on in the lab tonight? 50+ ISOs are finding their temporary homes on some DVD+Rs until the solid state storage becomes much bigger and more affordable.
Make sure to run your backups. Scan your terminal for spyware, malware, and virii. Move and paste files into their proper locations. Peace [...]
Posted by Sig on September 12th, 2009 at 11:34am under computers.
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the neverending to-do list
The Parsons table to my left is covered in clutter, and I’ve been planning on organizing it for weeks. I hope this week is the week when it finally happens.
As you can probably tell, I haven’t been updating you via this channel at all this month. Let’s just say my schedule hasn’t allowed me to [...]
Posted by Sig on May 27th, 2009 at 6:33pm under DVD and Blu-ray, comics, computers, food and recipes, life, television, writing.
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the keyboard replacement success
The last place we left off on replacing the keyboard on my ECS 536 notebook was waiting on the delivery of the replacement almost two weeks ago.
On the 12th, the keyboard arrived. The time arrived to do the necessary to my three-year-old notebook that has sentimental value to me hence why I’m keeping it [...]
Posted by Sig on February 22nd, 2009 at 8:38pm under computers, life.
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