Erich Stauffer

Category: Technology

  • Windows Office Live Workspace

    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officelive/fx102390721033.aspx

    Once signed up, here are the sites you’ll need to know. They don’t really tell you where to login to Windows Office Live Workspace:

    Sign in to Windows Office Live at: http://www.officelive.com
    Edit your Windows Live account at: http://login.live.com/

    If you have a domain, you can DNS point it to Microsoft’s servers, but if you don’t Microsoft will give you one domain free. It’s pretty sweet deal. The free account can have up to 10 email accounts and it makes managing users easy. Compare it to Google Apps for Small Business.

  • Wi-Fi Cell Phone Plans from T-Mobile

    To learn more:
    http://www.t-mobile.com/hotspotathome

    Get the 5 step plan:

    1. home broad band – check!
    2. qualifying t-mobile individual or family voice plan –     No!
    3. a t-mobile hotspot phone – No!
    4. a wireless router – check!
    5. get the hotspot@home add-on for unlimited calling for $9.99 a month – No!

    To purchase:
    http://www.t-mobile.com/promotions/TwoDeviceHotSpot.aspx

    Choose from two phones, $49.99 each

    		  
    Samsung T409
    • Wi-Fi and Mobile Calling
    • 1.3 Megapixel camera
    • Bluetooth® enabled
    Instant Discount
    Suggested Retail: $169.99
    Instant discount: -$120.00
    Final price: $49.99
    		 
    Nokia 6086
    • Wi-Fi and Mobile Calling
    • Integrated camera
    • Bluetooth® enabled
    Instant Discount
    Suggested Retail: $169.99
    Instant discount: -$120.00
    Final price: $49.99
    		 

    This offer only good for individual plans starting at $39.99/mo or higher or family plans starting at $49.99/mo.  Plans would actually be $49.98/mo or $59.98/mo respectively with $9.99 add-on.  2-year activation required for savings.  New activation required.  Taxes and 911 are extra, but mandatory making actual plan prices at least $55.00 and $65.00 respectively.

    We use Nokia phones already and have all the chargers from other phones, so we would choose the Nokia 6086.  T-Mobile does not currently provide service in our area, but they are continuously expanding service, so please check back again later.

  • The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)

    The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.

  • IBM is Cool

    IBM is relentless in its pursuit of computing technology. Recently they were able to use a single atom as a transistor by detecting its on and off states with an electron microscope. This is insane, but I’m glad to have a behemoth entity like IBM which can spend the time and money delving into new technology that will take us forward in our pursuit of speed and energy reduction.

    Working at IBM

    I worked at IBM for about 5 days in 2007 where I trained to be a customer service representative at a call center. We were all given IBM Thinkpads and IBM email addresses. The thing I remember the most was how strict the rules were and how you weren’t allowed to type something first in Notepad, you had to type it first into the ticketing system. I left that job to do IT work full time.

  • Stock Simulation Games; Fantasy Stocks

    Virtual Stock Exchange
    From Market Watch, a Dow Jones Company
    http://vse.marketwatch.com/Game/Homepage.aspx

    Investopedia
    A Forbes Media Company
    http://simulator.investopedia.com/
    Interested in joining?  Send me an email to info@watershawl.com.

  • How to Set Up a Wireless Router in a Dorm Room with LAN access

    Most dorm rooms have hi-speed ethernet or LAN access nowadays, but some students choose to broadcast that signal around their room with a wireless router.  However, simply plugging it into the wall like you plug it into your modem at home will not work. This is because you are actually plugging it into another router or switch, not a modem.  This means you'll need to use a crossover cable.

    Use a crossover cable to attach your wireless router to the plug in the wall .  This is a special ether net cable that connects the in's to the out's.  A normal or "patch" cable connects in's to in's and out's to out's.  A router connected to another router needs in's connected to out's to communicate.  That's just how its set up because computer NIC's (where it connects to your PC) is setup to connect to a router.

  • How does your home PC compare to these ol’ supercomputers?

    IBM Cluster (arapahoe, comanche, navaho, chief): 1992–1997: 26 megaflops
    CRAY 1-A: 1977–1989: 80 megaflops
    CRAY X-MP/48: 1986–1990: 55 megaflops per processor (220 megaflops for the whole computer)
    CRAY Y-MP8/864 (shavano): 1990–1997: 1 gigaflop
    CRAY C90 (antero): 1996–1999: 5.2 gigaflops
    The IBM SP RS/6000 (blackforest): 1999–2005: 237 gigaflops
    IBM p690 (bluesky): 2002–present: 8.32 teraflops

  • Cell Phone Vibrations VS. Ringtones; Why Does a Cell Phone Always Vibrate Before It Rings?

    Have you ever noticed, that when I a cell phone is set to vibrate and ring at the same time, that it will vibrate before it rings?  It could be that the electric signal inside the phone is sent at the same time, but since the vibration is mechanical, it happens immediately, but the ring tone has to be accessed from a drive which has read-times that are slower than than the vibration.  What do you think?  It seems to happen on all models.

  • Speed Up Your PC by Moving the Paging File and Print Spoolers to Another Drive

    This only works if you have another physical drive to move it to:

    Moving the Paging File

    1. In Control Panel, double-click System.
    2. Click the Advanced tab.
    3. Click Settings under Performance.
    4. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Change under Virtual Memory.
    5. Select the new drive that you want to use to store the paging file.
    6. Set Initial Size (MB) and Maximum size. For the initial size, Microsoft recommends that you use the recommended value in the Total Page File Size for All Drives box.
    7. Click Set, and then click OK twice.
    8. Click Restart Now.

    Moving the Default Spool Directory for All Printers

    This procedure applies a new default spool directory to all printers that are configured on this computer.

    1. In Control Panel, double-click Printers and Faxes.
    2. On the File menu, click Server Properties, and then click the Advanced tab.
    3. In the Spool Folder box, type the path that you want to use, and then click OK.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314105