I started blogging for That Damn PC four months ago and I have now decided to leave because of personal reasons, especially related to time management. I hope at least a few of my posts have helped someone sometime. They have helped me learn a few things so as to share them here, and I know one place where to look for specific tips that I may forget in the future.

That Damn PC will soon get another blogger, so keep coming back. Even better, subscribe to the site and you will be notified once activity resumes here. I will continue to drop by once in a while. You can also check out the other sites on the b5media Technology Channel and the favorites I linked to in the sidebar below for news and nuggets.

I thank b5media for this opportunity. In particular, I thank Kori Ellis, the Technology Channel Editor, and Rachel Segal, the Content Director, who were always there to listen to my problems and made it easier for me to blog here.

I will keep in touch.
Sravan

Post from: EveryJoe

Bidding Farewell

Milo discovered a product especially useful for enterprises of all sizes called Nightwatchman, a good news that Microsoft didn’t lay off anybody in the Vista team. I knew that they didn’t touch the Silverlight team, but frankly I’m surprised about this because Vista hasn’t been very profitable to Microsoft. Or has it? One bad news is the Windows 7 minimum requirements. It may not be a good experience to try it on my netbook which just meets the minimum requirements and my laptop which is old enough to even miss the minimum. But if anyone is interested, you can get the Windows 7 look into Windows XP. He also found a couple of amusing videos, one called “how to say i love you.” and another a confirmation of love, a marriage at Taco Bell. Recession, aye?

Jason found a few websites that can assist you in unique ways: one for helping educate your kids, one a calendar to help others, and another to scan your computer online. He covered a lot of Windows Powertoys, a mobile media browser and found another reason to continue loving Zune. He also has a couple of how-tos for selecting non-linear text in a word document and sharing Outlook calendar availability. One bad news, I mean another one, is that Microsoft is shutting down MSN Groups.

Claire thought out loud about the gap between Linux and mainstream users, learnt something new about less (which all you Cygwin users may find useful), discovered a wonderful browser called Kidzui which attempts to make the Internet a more kid-friendly place.

Juan wonders whether the Mac is not invincible anymore and whether Apple really needs to make a netbook. He is glad to find a symbol cheat widget and an app that can save his day with a bunch of drawings. The latter isn’t my cup of tea. He along with Jayvee found out about Apple’s stand on piracy.

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A Massive Tech Channel Roundup

Which account do you use to log into your system?

1. Administrator (or equivalent)

2. Guest (or equivalent)

3. I don’t know.

4. I don’t care.
 

You will find a widget called “That Damn Poll” in the side bar on the left where you can take this poll. If you wish to vote for any other option, feel free to shout using the comment form below. For the poll, I am not interested in your identity and therefore not logging your IPs. You may vote more than once, for each of the systems you log into: home, workplace, lab servers,… The poll will be open for your votes until 5th Jan, 2008. It takes less than a minute and the more votes I get the better.

Please vote and share the poll with your friends. Thanks in advance.

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That Damn Poll: Which account do you use to log into your system?

In case you are taking a vacation, have a safe one and forget all your worries including those about the PC. When you come back, I will be here waiting to help you in any way I can.

Cheers,
Sravan

Post from: EveryJoe

Happy Holidays

I am sorry if you consider your website as a blog but it clearly isn’t one and you should stop your blog if you intend to maintain it in this way. Though I wasted a lot of time and energy digging deep I couldn’t find when you exactly started the PC-Guide category on your blog, which is a reproduction of That Damn PC.

I did not sign up for your free online backup services and I was told that the previous bloggers here at That Damn PC did not either. I once again request you to stop copying every single post from me or anybody else. You must have received a “Cease & Desist” notification from the Legal department of b5media a month ago. It was sent to you and another member of your brotherhood. The other member thankfully took it seriously enough, but you have continued to doggedly pursue your act of cloning.

While your unrequited link love has brought me a lot of frustration and lost me a lot of traffic, I also thank you for enabling me to ponder about the concept of blog cloning and the types of blog fraud. I am willing to wait till the end of this year because patience is a virtue. After that, it would be utterly stupid of me to not explore ways of dealing with website plagiarism.

Regards,
Sravan

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An Open Letter to Gadget For Life Dot Info

I had been opinionated about using push buttons and organizing program files, worried about the rising types of blog fraud and spam mail, conscious about the precautions to be taken in a cyber cafe and disposing e-waste responsibly, sad about the layoffs and the Mumbai attacks, and excited about the Ancient Rome 3D and the LIFE photo archive projects. I also began an ongoing series on Cygwin: pre-introduction, introduction, installation. For all the things in between, refer the November archives.

I thank the readers for stopping by here, the fellow bloggers for link love, the spammers for spam that couldn’t be caught by Akismet, and the fraud bloggers for blog clones. Or not.

Looking forward to a better blogging experience this December.

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November Month in Retrospect