Posts Tagged 'Technical'

VM Fusion Brings OSX and Win 7 Together

one Commented October 28 2009
Categorized Under: Geek, OS, Software, Technical, Utilities, Web

If you’ve tried to run Win 7 with all the bells and whistles in an OSX environment, you’ve undoubtedly come up against a few problems. Have no fear VMware is here. Fusion 3 has some fantastic updates that will allow you to run Win 7 64 bit with Areo and Flip 3-D.
Fusion 3 has a [...]

What is Google Wave?

3 Commented October 6 2009
Categorized Under: Featured, Geek, Media, Social Media, Software, Technical, Web

I’ve been asked about Google Wave quite a bit lately. There are so many features to it that it is hard to condense into a few short sentences. So, I decided to find an overview vid to better explain this new innovation. Web 3.0 here we come.

CERN to Restart in November

one Commented October 5 2009
Categorized Under: Featured, Geek, History, Science, Technical

James Gilles, head of communications for CERN stated today thatthe LHC should be back online by mid November, and that thing were going very well. Though there is no scheduled date for a full power up the first stages will begin in the next two weeks when scientists will inject a beam of protons into [...]

5 Top Geekified Vacations

3 Commented June 14 2009
Categorized Under: Featured, Geek

What goes into the makings of a great geek vacation? First you must have high speed access no matter where you are. There must be something about the spot to make you think. A tech history or a tech here and now is a good boost. Oh yeah, it must be something that the mainstream [...]

How does Google’s Wave Work?

No Commented May 29 2009
Categorized Under: Geek, Technical

David Wang from the the Wave team at google explains how operational transformations work to make Wave sho concurrent changes. (Non-geek speak – David shows us how simple math is used to make live changes to 2 different computers at the same time).

Why your IT department hates you

No Commented May 8 2009
Categorized Under: Geek, Technical

If you are reading this online you most likely do not need to. You may want to print out 100 copies and place around your office for your office mates that have “issues” with technology.
I work in a relatively progressive place of business. It’s a medical facility and deals with some newer technologies, but there [...]

How to “runas” .bat and .msi

No Commented May 6 2009
Categorized Under: Geek, Technical

We enjoy our ability to “RunAs” an executable file at work so we don’t have to log out any users. We want more. We want to be able to do the same to .MSI and .Bat files too across the whole domain.
Here’s how.
1. Create a .reg file and put this in it:
Windows Registry Editor Version [...]