This Geek Life

Last weekend the Western Digital MyBook that I keep my iTunes library on died a horrid death leaving me high and dry. The unfortunate part was only a portion of my library was backed up to another drive. If I couldn’t find a way to recover my files I’d lose over $200 worth of music. [...]

Google has, for a long time, allowed people to make specialized search pages that generate revenue using their Google Search for Adsense. Here’s a unique green site out of Germany that makes use of the plugin and promises to donate all revenues, minus operating costs which they claim are less than 5%, to The Nature [...]

So you’re a sys admin and you’re at a clients place of business and you’re setting up their new Cisco router and wireless base station when suddenly everything does a hard reset and you’re left looking at the default login screen. Grab the manual and look up the default password that came with the router? [...]