Electronic Note Taking - Evernote to OneNote
Uh, Oh.
Recently, I was delivered notice from the Evernote desktop application that my account was "changing". Evernote would no longer be offering free access to its' basic services from an unlimited number of devices. Instead, only two devices would be allowed to access my account which contains hundreds of important notes that I referenc...
How Video Games Influence Network Modelling
An acquaintance of mine recently wrote an increasingly popular article on the negative effects of client authoritative network modelling as it applies to online multiplayer video games. Specifically, the enabling of "cheaters" when client machines are given priority over the server. Glenn Fiedler is a respected software engineer who has worked on severa...
My stamps! You ruined my stamps!
"... Not to mention five years of therapy!"
Most of you are probably scratching your head at this point. I wouldn't blame you, really. That is arguably an obscure and mostly unknown quote. But it's also one that had me howling with laughter in the early 1990s as a teenager.
Maniac Mansion: ...
Work Update: Customer Success Comes First
I'm taking a few short minutes to complete this blog post before I jump back into my to-do list. I'm relatively busy with my work at REM and I'm quite happy about that.I'm happy to be busy because it means REM is experiencing success. And that only happens when our customers experience success.
The work I'm digging into this week revolves a...
Empowered Computing: Leverage Legacy Applications Using Cloud Storage
In my previous blog post I talked about storing Microsoft Outlook data files outside of the default location by utilizing NTFS symbollic links.As promised, this is the follow-up to that post that will provide you with a simple method for leveraging your existing cloud storage for use with legacy applications.
While this is a somewhat advanc...
Empowered Computing: Microsoft Outlook Storage Tip
Running out of space on your primary disk, such as the SSD you purchased that you figured would be just large enough to get by? Don't archive that Microsoft Outlook data!Well, not yet, at the very least.
Sure, archiving may speed up access to old data in some cases, but it is 2015 and local I/O performance has become less of ...
