Everyday insight in the life of normal IT workers
Remember when you were promised all those amazing future tech innovations? Just around the corner was supposed to be a shining technology utopia with flying cars, personal space travel to distant galaxies, and bio-implantable cell phones.
Don’t lose hope! An amazing glimpse of this promised future has just arrived in the form of the Bluetooth [...]
Posted in Hardware, IT related (more or less) on Mar 30th, 2007
Yesterday I decided ( more or less ) to do some cleanup in our storage area. In fact a few lockers that were used by me, my colleague and the former sysadmin to deposit every shitty PC / computer part / component that was old, defective, damaged or otherwise not working / not needed anymore. [...]
Another friend of mine worked at a computer store. And this is what happened to him
One day someone comes to the store wanting to buy a 500GB hard disk. So, he tells him what the offer is, what brands do they have. The person chooses one , pays for it and leaves home [...]
Posted in Hardware on Feb 27th, 2007
I’ve heard storing batteries in the refrigerator makes them last longer. Is it true?
Many people have been told that storing alkaline batteries in the refrigerator actually prolongs the battery life. But before you start mixing apples and alkalines, there are some things you should know. The concept of refrigerating batteries originated from a time when [...]