We get some pretty awesome tickets in our help desk, and we like to nominate some of them as ‘ticket of the week.’  We even pick a winner from the nominees at our huddle.  The whole lot of ‘ticket of the week’ nominees and winners from fiscal year 2007-08 were re-examined last week so that [...]

Last week the AP reported on the “Crazy Rasberry Ants,” and I thought it was a belated April Fool’s Day joke. No way could tiny ants be attracted to industrial electronics…what biological need could gadgets possibly satisfy in these bugs? I swear to you, it’s not a joke. It is a festering reality. Scientists are [...]

There are a couple electronics/computer recycling events coming up in the Ann Arbor area. The first is Saturday, April 26 at Best Buy. Best Buy is teaming up with Great Lakes Electronics to recycle used electronics at no charge. Drop off will be in the Best Buy Parking lot on Lohr Road. They ARE accepting [...]

Apple has released a cool new aluminum cased laptop today, the Macbook Air. It’s considered an ultra portable laptop, weighing 3lbs with a maximum height of just .75 inches when closed. The Air will be available in two configurations, both of which with will come with the maximum 2GB of ram. The base model has [...]

VentureCake has a great article about the kernels used in VMware. It comes almost immediately after VMware’s IPO, which generated lots of investers for the virtual machine software maker. The trouble: VMware basically has two kernels, one of which is the popular Linux kernel. The GPL of the Linux kernel makes redistributing the kernel (for [...]