There's been an interesting flurry of news lately regarding the way battery life is measured. Almost any consumer that has purchased a notebook or netbook lately has likely realized that the battery life (measured in hours) that was advertised to them has been at least slightly exaggerated. That circumstance is the topic of a number of blog posts on the official AMD blog which … [Read more...]
Archives for 2009
Happy SysAdmin Day 2009!
It was just under 200 posts ago and a year ago (the last Friday in July) that I was wishing you a happy sysadmin day back in 2008. Hopefully the past year has gone smooth for you and we've all learned a thing or two thousand in that time to perform the demanding tasks in IT better. If you're not in Information Technology, be sure to wish your IT department a Happy SysAdmin … [Read more...]
Joe’s Goals
Joe's Goals is a simple approach to by-the-week accountability to setting and meeting goals. You can simply go to the Joe's Goals website and check corresponding boxes to indicate if a goal was completed for the day. You can create multiple, simple goals like going for a run or eating vegetables. You can also add negative goals, or things you want to avoid, as well in case you … [Read more...]
Book Review: Exploiting Online Games
Exploiting Online Games is the third book in series of titles by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw. Their two other books have previously been reviewed here at 404 Tech Support - Exploiting Software: How to Break Code and Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel. These titles typically provide information for developers to take into consideration in their projects and for IT … [Read more...]