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Microsoft Need to Watch Out

By Matt | Published: 2010/07/29
Steve Ballmer is a tit!!! He admits being wrong to underestimate Apple’s innovations in touch and then goes on to brush off Android and Chrome OS. http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/29/ballmer_awake_at_night/ Here’s the thing – PCs will always be around but average consumers these days are moving more and more to a mobile platform. Not as a replacement but [...]
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Fat Matt

By Matt | Published: 2010/07/24
I had some ideas about what to use my geekhive.com site for but they’ve been on the back burner.  To be honest I lack the time, energy, motivation, etc to piss around with web coding. In the absence of anything useful to use my site for I think I’ll get back to good old fashioned [...]
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WordPress v3

By Matt | Published: 2010/07/15
Just upgraded to WordPress v3.  Hope nothing breaks. Don’t notice much difference  so far.  But then again any new features will be lost on me as I always neglect this site.
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Site Idea

By Matt | Published: 2010/05/08
I indicated in a previous post that I might have been selling geekhive.  This won’t be happening anytime soon.  A while ago an individual came forward with an offer, interested in buying.  I accepted the offer and suggested we use an escrow service.  He seemed fine with that…then he stopped all communication.  Didn’t return my [...]
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Lucid Lynx Install…from USB

By Matt | Published: 2010/04/30
Anyone who knows me knows that I’ve been using Linux at home for over 5 years now.  My wife and I both runUbuntu Linux and find it to be a great alternative to Windows.  Our media is streamed to our TV using a hacked original Xbox running the XBMC Linux distro. Ubuntu are in the [...]
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This Week in Back Stabbing

By Matt | Published: 2010/04/28
A few years ago after arriving in Canada I started watching TechTV on cable and became hooked on shows like “The Screen Savers” and “Call For Help”. This was back in the days before TechTV sold its soul and became a bland gaming channel named G4. Several of the presenters who walked or got kicked [...]
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Life Without Facebook

By Matt | Published: 2010/04/25
3 days ago I deactivated my Facebook account.  I did this for a few reasons with the top 3 being: Signal to noise ratio – I had 130 or so people on my friends list.  The news stream has evolved these past few years with Facebook trying their best to to decide what I’d be [...]
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3-2-1 Backup

By Matt | Published: 2010/04/22
Something I’ve been taking more seriously these days is backup.  My music and video collection are replaceable but my photos of friends and family aren’t.  I’m now following the 3-2-1 Rule of thumb for backup of photos. 3 copies of any important files 2 different media types 1 copy should be stored offsite For my photos [...]
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Podcast Recommendations

By Matt | Published: 2010/04/17
There’s a couple of really interesting podcasts that I’ve discovered over the past month that I’d like to share with you.  The first is a weekly show called “This American Life“.  Each week the show, hosted by Ira Glass, chooses a theme and then present 2 or 3 stories around that theme. For example this [...]
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DNS Tools

By Matt | Published: 2010/04/11
Recently I’ve changed my dynamic DNS service to DynDNS who offer a great free service.  Now I can connect to my home PC via IP using a custom URL, e.g., geekhive.hostpc.org.  I used to use No-IP.org for this service but their Linux client wasn’t working too well with Ubuntu installation. Speaking of DNS I’ve been [...]
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