Geek up the Street Blog September Archive

From Database to Hardware: Oracle Moves to a Greater Height

By Website Introductions at 09/25/08 23:48

Oracle has been one of the leading companies that focuses more on database management and database software applications. This steady company has another update in store for its valued consumers. Larry Ellison, Oracles's billionaire CEO has announced the latest innovation from the company, its first-ever hardware product. The unveiled products are a pair of servers built by Hewlett-Packard which focuses and boosts the performance of Oracle database products. For a more comprehensive look about this news read the rest of it here.

Link: Oracle Dives Headlong into Hardware

Vista Fiasco

Microsoft's latest version of operating system Windows Vista is already supported by top of the line notebook manufacturer.

There have been report that some machines that cost thousands of dollars came loaded with Vista is having problems. And although Vista has its bad reputation to start, Microsoft hasn't been affected financially.

In fact, many consumers who bought new PCs with the Vista, reloaded their machines back to Windows XP.

Link: Dan Lyons: A Gloomy Vista for Microsoft | Newsweek Daniel Lyons | Techtonic Shifts | Newsweek.com

Genius Versus Geeks

Employees and the manpower they yield are essential to the success of large technical companies. One group dared to dig a little deeper amongst two of the most common and maybe competing jobs of computer companies, the geeks and the geniuses. Geeks or Geek Squads work at Best Buy's providing computer support services while Mac Geniuses are specially trained and certified to help its costumers with their Apple hardware and software issues. For a more comprehensive comparison read the rest here.

Link: Nerd grudge match: Geek Squad vs. Apple Genius - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Easy Jobs, Lucrative Jobs

The good thing about being in the computer industry is that there are a lot of opportunities that pay relatively high. Just go to the Internet and search your pick inside the immense amount of jobs available to you.

But geeks can be slackers, too, wanting to do jobs that are easy and lucrative. Do you have any ideas?

Link: Slashdot | Successful Moonlighting For Geeks?

Tech War

Geeks from small technology companies with big ideas will try to get the attention of investors in a Dragon's Den-style competitions that will be held at "TechCrunch 50" in San Fransisco and "Demo 08" in San Diego.

Michael Arrington, an influential and opinionated tech blogger of the TechCrunch blog and conference wants to stop the Demo. which is now on its 17th year. More details on the link below

Link: Geek War! It's Tech Crunch 50 v Demo 08 in battle of the start-ups - Times Online

Proedure in Upgrading the Acer Aspire

Acer Aspire produced a great new line of notebooks and laptops for the casual home user, students and small business. Other models has limited memory, so how can one upgrade this feature without the hustle of getting the help of a computer technician? The answer is this good instruction video on how to upgrade the 1 GB memory of the acer aspire. Watch the full video here to find out more.

YouTube Video

YouTube - Acer Aspire One Memory Upgrading

USB Air Conditioned Shirt: Answers to the Heat of the Summer

There have been so many milestone thanks to the latest technology nowadays. Another one of this odd and maybe useful invention or innovation is the USB Air Conditioned Shirt.

An idea from Japan, The Shirt includes a USB powered fan that blows fresh air into the shirt. The USB is then connected to a local USB port on a lap top, computer or other devices. A weird idea that will surely let you stay cool in the summer.

Link: USB Air Conditinoned Shirt | Schulmafia - Luxuries and Uniques