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Today’s "Global Nerdy" Plug

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date November 3, 2006
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Nobody writes a marketing slogan like my buddy George. His catchphrase for our tech blog, Global Nerdy, is “You’ll come out of pity, but you’ll return out of mild interest”. Why this guy isn’t the Wizard of Madison Avenue, I’ll never know.

Some of the recent stories on Global Nerdy:

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Job Opening at Tucows: Integration Engineer

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date November 2, 2006
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The company for which I work, Tucows, has a job opening for an Integration Engineer. Here’s a very quick description of the job:

The successful ~~incumbent~~ candidate will have the challenging opportunity to work on Tucows’ vast and complex high availability system spread across multiple data centers, servers and operating systems. You’ll work with a dynamic team of Integration Engineers to develop, deploy and maintain components of a large scale hosted messaging platform. In addition, you will develop software components for our hosted messaging platform; liaise with third party suppliers in customizing applications for deployment on our high availability production environment; as well as contribute to ongoing process improvement of the SDLC.

For a full description, see this entry in the Tucows Blog.

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Area Man’s Third Attempt to Install Windows Vista

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date November 2, 2006
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If you’ve been checking out Global Nerdy, a tech blog I share with my buddy George, I’ve gotten my hands on a copy of Release Candidate 1 of Microsoft’s next version of Windows, Windows Vista. So far, I’ve made two attempts to install it, both without success.

Here’s the short version: yes, I finally got it installed. As with software from Microsoft, the third time’s the charm. My trick was the tried-and-true fix that all IT workers know: turn the damned machine off and on again. This trick is so useful that it’s been immortalized on t-shirts and in at least one television show, The IT Crowd:

For more, go check out the full story.

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Area Man Makes Second Attempt to Install Windows Vista

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date November 1, 2006
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“If I wanted my computer rendered useless,” I said, “I would’ve saved myself some time by simply continuing to run Windows XP on it.”

Refusing to take “no” for an answer from my computer, I made a second attempt to install Windows Vista. For the full story, check out my article at Global Nerdy.

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Area Man Attempts to Install Windows Vista

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date October 31, 2006
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…and the results have been less than optimal. Read this story (and more) on Global Nerdy.

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New Articles on "Global Nerdy"

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date October 30, 2006
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Techies: you can either read our tech blog, Global Nerdy, or wallow in the filth of your own ignorance and uncoolness.

A Tale of Two Swagmen: Back when we were in a band, George had the better “chick magnetism” as he was the bassist and I played keyboards (and not just keyboards, but keytar!). The shoe’s on the other foot these days — my swag-fu is better than his.
TiddlyWiki: The powerful little Ajax wiki that’s getting a lot of mention these days.
Six-Word Stories About Programming Languages: Programming languages explain themselves in stories six words in lengths. Perl’s is “They’ll come crawling back. You’ll see!”. (No, they won’t.)
Google Ad Sales Reorgs Around the Customer: It looks as though Google Ads will move to one account director per account, which will encapsulate all its ad types — search, mobile, video, audio and so on. Who benefits? Who loses?
Apple Shows .Mac Mail Some Love, Web 2.0-Style: Apple’s Web 2.0 renovations to .Mac mail are a step in the right direction, but they still have a way to go.
Program Lets Anyone Print Boarding Passes…To Gitmo!: The grad student who made the program that prints out fake boarding passes was trying to demonstrate how bad airport secuirty is, not help terrorists.
CAPTCHAs: More Effective Than You’ve Been Led to Believe: Don’t believe the naysayers: just look on the ‘net for proof that CAPTCHAs work!
Eve isn’t the Real Attacker!: For years, security scenarios have told you the story from ALice and Bob’s point of view. At long last, Eve gets her say.

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