http://geekdamage.com Synthesizing Geek Technology Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:26:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google released a beta version of a web browser named Google Chrome. It's extremely clean and simple looking, and the features (for just being a Beta product) are pretty amazing. There isn't terribly much I can say about Google Chrome that Google hasn't already said via a short Google Chrome Web ... http://geekdamage.com/google-chrome 95 words I've known about this online typing test for awhile, but never thought to post about it. So far (when I'm in good condition health wise/etc) this is the best I've done. Check it out: http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com http://geekdamage.com/how-fast-can-you-type Recently Comcast posted an announcement on their website that confirms a 250GB bandwidth usage cap for all residential customers. The announcement states that starting October 1st, 2008, anyone that goes over the limit may be contacted by Comcast and asked to lighten the usage. Excessive violation of the bandwidth cap ... http://geekdamage.com/comcast-announces-bandwidth-cap Now that I have pretty much all of the base setup of my desktop complete, I decided to post about it. As mentioned before, my distribution of choice is Debian's testing branch. When I first installed Debian I used Gnome as the desktop environment/window manager, and then I switched to XFCE ... http://geekdamage.com/my-linux-desktop-setup I got the Samsung NV11 yesterday from Fedex. It looks really slick in person, and despite some of the reviews I've read about the interface for the camera being iffy and non-standard, I love it. The camera took about 150 minutes to charge before its first time use, which was ... http://geekdamage.com/update-new-camera-samsung-nv11 I finally made the switch from Windows as a primary desktop to Linux. My distribution of choice is Debian. It's a great distribution and their net-install disc makes for a quick ISO download and burn. Then you can choose how much you want to install, instead of just downloading ... http://geekdamage.com/from-windows-to-linux Last night I bought the Samsung NV11 10.1MP Black Digital Camera from woot for $154.99 shipped. I've read reviews that have mixed feelings on the camera, but for $154 (where it's normally higher) I'm willing to give this camera a shot. I'm not looking for much in a camera, just something ... http://geekdamage.com/new-camera-samsung-nv11 I enjoy debates on various topics, but sometimes it just needs to be put to rest for awhile. I am specifically talking about the on going storm of which operating system you should use, and which one sucks. Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but neither ... http://geekdamage.com/windows-v-linux-the-great-debate I recently installed an IRC Quotes system much like the popular Bash.org. You can find it by checking out the front page of DEOP.ORG, or directly by going to DEOP.ORG QDB. The script I use for the site is called QdbS, which is a project originally created by Kyle Florence. After ... http://geekdamage.com/deop-qdb I have used Linux in both environments (Desktop, and Server). Linux is a very great platform for many reasons with reliability being one of top features I use it for. There are a couple of distributions that I alternate in use, or have more than one machine running either as the ... http://geekdamage.com/using-linux