Category: Tech
South Dakota And Sioux Falls Each Have SubReddits
| April 13, 2012 | Posted by DevonSchreiner under Personal, Tech |
Reddit is such a diverse and multi-talents community that you can find absolutely anything you could ever imagine there. I’ve been creeping around the website more and more recently and finding out how much valuable information is contained if you just look in the right places. Recently something else caught my eye. Not only is… more
Spring Computer Cleaning
| April 6, 2012 | Posted by DevonSchreiner under Personal, Tech |
It’s officially spring and everyone, including Stacy, is fully engaged in their spring cleaning activities. Stacy has an older computer, it runs a little bit slow and is very unorganized, so she came to me for help. Stacy asked, “Devon, I am cleaning everything else right now, how can I clean up my computer and… more
Help South Dakota Become Connected
| April 5, 2012 | Posted by DevonSchreiner under Tech |
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, passed by Congress in 2009, is providing $7.2 billion to expand access to broadband services in the United States. The South Dakota Bureau of Information & Telecommunications or BIT, has received $5,729,415 of that to help fund their Broadband Data and Development project. This project includes many smaller sub-projects,… more
Win An iPad And Kindle Touch From CollegeInfoGeek!
| April 3, 2012 | Posted by DevonSchreiner under Personal, Tech |
Not only was my last post, My Impossible List, inspired by Thomas Frank, but this post also, come as a result of his latest announcement on CollegeInfoGeek. Frank has partnered with Adobe and is giving away an iPad and a Kindle Touch. He has a very interesting contest for these prizes, and you should probably… more
Join BeyondAuthority
| March 24, 2012 | Posted by DevonSchreiner under Personal, Tech |
Just like everyone else, I’ve had a group of friends in college and we all like to play games. As more people started graduating, moving away and whatnot, we all eventually just started using a voice chat server as our means of getting together. Everyone jumps on the Mumble server and we all still play… more
Disable Buzzdock On Google
| March 23, 2012 | Posted by DevonSchreiner under Tech |
A while back Google implemented a mildly annoying extra ad at the top of it’s search results called the Buzzdock. This will aggregate results that it thinks you want to see from Yahoo, YouTube, Twitter, Amazon, eBay and a whole bunch more, other places. Well I finally got fed up with it, so I took it off.… more
Good Guy Zach From Olark
| March 5, 2012 | Posted by DevonSchreiner under Personal, Tech |
As an IT sort of person, I am sometimes required to sign up for multiple free trials of software to try them out and give my recommendation as to which program we should purchase for the company. Along with signing up for these free trials come many unwelcomed, impersonal and completely unnecessary phone calls and emails. The… more
Backup MySQL To Amazon S3
| March 2, 2012 | Posted by DevonSchreiner under Tech |
Today I was tasked with writing a backup script for our new MySQL Server. I’m a scripter/programmer by absolutely no means but I was kind of proud of this so I thought I would share. This particular script lists the databases and for each one, dumps it, appends the date to the end of the… more
The 29 Most Useful Linux Commands
| February 29, 2012 | Posted by DevonSchreiner under Tech |
I have been using Linux more and more at work and at home. I am still by no means a master at memorizing and recalling the specific commands that I need all of the time. Usually a search has to be done and then I can continue working as planned. Then I found this great… more
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