Category Archives: Computer Stuff

Google Opens “What do you love?”, a new website

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Jesse Zylstra

The Internet search giant, Google, has opened another website. This one is called “What do you love”, available at wdyl.com It is a clever little advertising gimmick. You type in what you love (i.e. ZylBlog) and Google shows you how … Continue reading →

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Fedora Linux Adventures Continued:

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Jesse Zylstra

I am starting to wonder if Fedora is really the distribution I feel like sticking with long-term. But, now that I have the WiFi driver figured out, I figure I might as well give it a little longer. I’ve noticed … Continue reading →

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Linux Distributions: Fedora 15

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Jesse Zylstra

I’ve been a fan of Ubuntu for a very long time, but lately I had been questioning the direction they were heading in — especially regarding Unity. Unity is the latest desktop interface shipped with Ubuntu 11.04. It is based … Continue reading →

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Zemanta: A Blogging Multi-tool

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Jesse Zylstra

Description: Zamanta is one of the more interesting WordPress plugins that I have run across. (Though, I want to mention up front that it works for various other platforms, and can also work as a browser plugin..) Zamanta is a … Continue reading →

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Speeding up your Computer

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Jesse Zylstra

Republished. Previous date March 2010. Much as we like to purchase new computers because the one purchased last week is already running slow, things can be done to (honestly) speed things up quite a bit. Besides having a good, updated, … Continue reading →

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A Reminder to Users: Make Your Backup CDs

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Jesse Zylstra

One interesting thing that has changed with buying a computer in the last five years is the lack of a recovery CD. A lack of a recovery disc with a computer leaving the manufacturer has led to many problems for … Continue reading →

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June Site Updates

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Jesse Zylstra

May 5: Upgraded WordPress to version 3.1.2 Also, the server was upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 at around 6PM and remained offline until ~7:53pm. Little to no outages other than that. A few router restarts occurred during the month, … Continue reading →

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Folding at Home (F@H)

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Jesse Zylstra

On a side note before I start this article: The website usage has nearly doubled in the last two weeks for the overall monthly totals. (Interesting enough, so has the spam). Despite this, we get very few legitimate comments. Please … Continue reading →

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May Site Updates

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Jesse Zylstra

Happenings: April 5th, 2:09a-5:40a: A router failure caused the site and IRCD network to become inaccessible, as well as the website. IRCD resumed operations at 5:49a, and HTTP services at 5:40a. The amount of time the site was down was … Continue reading →

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Open Clip Art: Open Source Clip Art

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Jesse Zylstra

Article No. 200! You may have noticed a change to the website home page, the header image has been completely updated. This was something I put off for far too long, and I am glad to have changed it. I … Continue reading →

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