It appears that Amazon has Windows Vista available for pre-order on their website. Personally, I’m going to wait for general OEM availability of the Vista Ultimate DVD-ROM, rather than shelling out for the retail-boxed version. The release date for Windows Vista has been scheduled for January 30, 2007. I’ll leave it up to Microsoft to [...]

This past Wednesday (after work), I experimented with a wireless distribution system (WDS) installation at a local cafe. What makes this WDS installation unique is that there’s a thick concrete wall, metal rafters and a big neon sign that I have to work around. Can you say, ‘i-n-t-e-r-f-e-r-e-n-c-e’? Yes, good times that started with stock [...]

If there’s one thing I really hate, it’s slow computers. With all the recent price cuts in the CPU world, I decided it would be a good time to upgrade my Pentium 4 3.2 GHz system. It was fast, but when one multitasks like I do, nothing is fast enough. I decided to go with [...]

I was reading Google News today, when I came across a news story stating the following: The increased value of items in left luggage has also led to a rise in looting and theft at airports, which remains a grey area for insurance companies. A grey area that could be partially eliminated. How? Simple. With [...]

The results of a recent survey by Statistics Canada caught me off-guard. According to the survey, a heavy user is someone who spends more than one hour per day online. I qualify, as do millions of other Canadians (and others worldwide). However, the brief definition of a heavy user is grounds for a flame war. [...]

In a survey of office workers in the Liverpool Street Station in London, 71% of employees will part with their password for a candy bar. You’d think most employees wouldn’t be that stupid. But it happens. All the time. On another note, I’ve seen employees write passwords on everything you can think of — even [...]