Time once again for Geek Gather. Come join us for interesting discussions, trash talking, good food, and — yes — strawberry lemonade.
Directions are here Google Maps if anyone needs them.
There now is a Geek Gather Twitter account setup. This will be used for announcements of events, blog postings, etc. Simply follow http://twitter.com/geekgather and you will receive posts. This will require you have a Twitter account, but come on already, all the cool kids are doing it.
I am looking for suggestions and feedback as to what to post and current thoughts are the following:
If you want to post something to the Geek Gather account, please contact me out-of-band for info.
Windows Users,
I am running XP Pro in Parallels on my Mac for occasional uses that require it. I’ve been using Parallels “free” Kasperky subscription, which is now coming to an end. For what I use it, I don’t want to pony up $60 per year for something like that. My two questions are 1) Do I really need to run an app like that (I assume the answer is a resounding “yes”) and 2) What is a low cost/no cost alternative to Kaspersky? Please advise. Thanks!
Join us and beat the heat in these dog days of summer with a refreshing strawberry lemonade. It’s too hot for me to come up with something longer and more creative.
Directions are here Google Maps if anyone needs them.
I’m seeking clarity and experience.
Currently, I’m paying Speakeasy to host DNS, a web site, and to provide MTA services for me. I get my mail via IMAP, so they’re providing storage of mail as well. It’s more expensive than I’d like and I don’t get enough space for my mail.
Finding a solution for web and DNS is easy. Yes, you can all send me your Dreamhost referral info now. I’ll randomly select someone. What I can’t seem to get clarity on is the whole MTA thing. Dreamhost used to provide this service (I think), but they recently recommended that customers not use them as their MTA and suggest gmail as an alternative.
I’d like to have my mail hosted somewhere that provides IMAP access and isn’t in my basement and that allows me to use my own domain name. Is anyone doing this with Dreamhost or other? Has anyone worked this out with gmail, yahoo or other?
I partook in the madness and waited in line. Four hours to be exact. The wait: boring, the buying experience: perfect. Less than 5 minutes to transfer my number from t-mobile. I skipped activation in the store as it appeared to be rocky. Did it from home later without glitches. First impression: amazing piece of hardware. Used it to write this post.
Geeks,
I’ll use the opportunity to announce that my new company, TE Studio, is now open for business. You may find details on what we do at www.timeian.com. There is also a blog at www.blog.timeian.com that I am looking to slowly populate as I move forward. The main focus of TE Studio will be something called Passive House design, a standard that is just now coming to the US from Europe, which promises to cut up to 90% of the space heating and cooling energy. It is the highest certified low energy standard available today. I look forward to your comments.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to reaffirm the technological bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Thirst and of the Nature’s Hunger entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the consumption of strawberry lemonade.
Directions are here Google Maps if anyone needs them.
Ya’ll can discuss tonight. I won’t be there to argue.
It is time once again for our dodeciannual celebration of Strawberry Lemonade! That’s right, another Geek Gather is upon us. If we’re lucky, Dawn may grace us with stories from far-away lands. A strange place where…well…other than Dawn and her family, I’m not entirely sure what’s there. In fact, I’m not even sure those far-away lands actually exist. Has anyone other than Dawn actually been to them?
Directions are here Google Maps if anyone needs them.