Tech Volta

Accessing your computer remotely is critical now-a-days. When I’m at work I find myself needing files, documents, and other things from my home computer. When I was running Windows XP I used logmein.com to remotely access my computer. The reason logmein worked so well was because it used port 80; most other [...]

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Probably the best class I have ever talken, as in I learned a whole bunch of stuff from, was a UNIX class. We used the book Guide to UNIX using Linux and installed Fedora Core 4 to learn all the amazing things about Linux/UNIX or *NIX. This book has a lot of bad [...]

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I have been very busy the last week or so. It doesn’t seem stop. It flew bye so quick I barely have time to think. So I will do some thinking now……..
The only thing that I have had a chance to do lately is listen to some podcasts, or should I say [...]

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To ponder, to dream, to find yourself in the darkness of life. Meditation can free your mind and bring sanity to your life. That’s why I should do more. Just to take a break from the redundancies of life. Sometimes I think I just do too much. I need a [...]

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There’s an excellent article, as always, on coding horror, about the Desktop Application versus the Web Application.
From coding horror:
I tested it myself, and she’s right. It takes about 9 seconds to launch Streets and Trips 2007 on my (very fast) desktop PC, compared to about 3 seconds to load maps.google.com in the browser. It’s a [...]

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