Computers are just not sexy enough. Apple tried to make it so by changing colors from the old beige box. They even created see-through computers so you could see the inner workings. That didn't help either.
PCs have gone from beige to white to black and back again. I personally like black best because I like to trip over them in the dark without shoes on. It reminds me I'm alive and not dead inside like some people think.
I really like the laser mice with the red laser. When my kids...

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There I said it.
I feel a little better but only if I scream it while pounding my fist on the table.
I finished rebuilding one of our crashed Linux servers twice in one day. If there was an alternative to what I was using it for I would have jumped at it.
The bad thing is that Linux does do some things better than Windows. That doesn't make me hate it any less.
I remember building my first Linux box. It was a Mandrake version four on an old Intel 486. It had that Gee...

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As I mentioned before, the ITEC show was a great success. We are going through all the leads that were generated during the show and hope to make some new customers and new friends.
Cisco also agreed to sponsor our radio show and wants to bring us into Seattle as well. We are looking at stations up there to determine the best fit.
Yesterday we had a horrible wind storm in the Portland area that flooded homes and killed several people. We had many customers with power issues, and those...

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Today was day one for the ITEC show in Portland. It was pretty awesome. I did some radio interviews with James Gaskin who was the keynote speaker. I also interviewed the co founder of Netvigilance. There were other heads of technology corporations as well from the NW and beyond.

Comcast really ticked me off because they said they would come by but they chickened out. I don't know if it was stage fright or they just didn't want to be compared with FIOS from Verizon anymore.
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Well tomorrow is the ITEC show. We have been working hard getting together a display and banners. Link Sys and Cisco have been great to partner with. They sent all kinds of hardware, brochures and things to give away.
We are probably the only ones with a home made back ground, but its our first show and we just found out ten days ago we were doing it, so next time we will have the professional look. For now though I think it looks pretty cool.
I was testing out Smile Tiger's Go To...

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