When I pulled up to this ATM I noticed the familar BIOS info loading on the screen. I quickly realized the ATM was starting up and decided to stick around and wait until it was ready for me to use it. A few moments later the ATM started to reinstall Windows XP in what appeared to be an attempt to repair itself. Pretty cool right? A few moments later the repair process finished but the system never came back and the ATM returned to the boot menu and started the whole process again. It was Read more [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Cisco tech days
Today I had the opportunity to attend Cisco tech days to get the inside scoop on network technology straight from the network experts. One interesting thing I learned is that Cisco puts back 12% of their revenue into research and development (R&D) each year; this translates to approximately 5.2 billion this year alone. The hot topics were voice over IP (duh), virtualization, unified communication services and TelePresence. What exactly is TelePresence? think of it as video conferencing Read more [...]
Do you Ubuntu?
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you probably heard about Ubuntu; the FREE operating system that kicks ass. Ubuntu is open source software, that means that thousands of developers around the world work on it. Personally, I’ve been using it since version 6.04 and it keeps getting better! The new version due out this month.