I haven’t updated this site in quite a while.  I moved out to Chicago at the start of the year and have been working feverishly to make it as an entrepreneur.  Recently we started a VoIP business unit and it’s quickly become our most popular product.  However,  I still get over 2,000 unique visitors from [...]

Posted on November 23rd, 2009 by Furious Citizen
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Today I took on installing SugarCRM 5.1.0a for a client of mine who is just falling head over heals in love with all the whole concept of Open Source.
This software has a really long list of requirements and I wouldn’t recommend it to people using shared hosting but this customer has a virtual dedicated server [...]

Posted on October 8th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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Have you ever clicked a result in Google and gotten redirected to spyware? That may not be something running on your computer!  There is a new attack out there letting the baddies infect your local businesses website!
One of my clients from last year recently had their site hijacked by people with less than honorable [...]

Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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What if we could define Women in computer terms?
HARD-DISK Woman: She remembers everything, FOREVER.
RAM Woman: She forgets about you, the moment you turn her off.
WINDOWS Woman: Everyone knows that she can’t do a thing right, but no one can live without her.
EXCEL Woman: They say she can do a lot of things but [...]

Posted on September 14th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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Welcome StumbleUpon Visitors!!!
I’ve been so busy this weekend celebrating my Birthday (I turned 23 years old last week) that I didn’t check the server logs until this evening.   The Home Depot Joke hit it big on Friday and I have had 4,000 times normal traffic levels on here since.
Credit must be given to Wordpress for [...]

Posted on September 8th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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…. or at least they used to.  Misleading title aside, I just read up on this by follwing a link to Xenix from the MS-DOS entry on Wikipedia.  I haven’t been this scared in a long time.
Straight from the article:
Xenix was Microsoft’s version of Unix intended for use on microcomputers; since Microsoft was not able [...]

Posted on August 17th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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The new site we have been working on these past couple months is going to rely heavily on Amazon S3 to store and serve static content.   A big problem with the Amazon S3 service is statistics, in fact the only statistics Amazon gives you are on usage/cost which is paltry compared to the wealth of [...]

Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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I started using Vista 32bit Edition on my desktop computer at launch for about three months and was very disappointed by the driver support from Nvidia.  My Nvidia 7900GTX SLI setup worked fine in XP but with Vista my machine would start displaying artifacts after the machine had been running for a day or two.
I [...]

Posted on August 12th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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My Sister was searching for a local Chinese place called Hunan of Solon in Internet Explorer and started getting popup ads from it.  I was sure it was something she downloaded but nothing appeared to be out of the ordinary on her PC.  I tried it on my Mac and upon clicking the link in [...]

Posted on August 1st, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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This is a quote from the Vista Blog:
“Last week we showed a video of the Mojave Experiment to a small group of folks here on campus. Today we are excited to share the results with the public.
For those new to the Mojave Experiment, it’s a focus group effort we initiated a few weeks ago. We [...]

Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
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