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Do not host with WorldStream! Thanks BREIN!

February 22, 2011 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
Stefan Didak Home Office Version 5

That, dear WorldStream, is what got you knocked off my shortlist. You have shown that you can’t be trusted to host anything, much less the important corporate data and development systems I might have otherwise chosen you to host for me. Needless to say, I am recommending to everyone else not to use this company for any hosting activities because it should be clear that your data and continuation of business might be at risk if a company is this negligent about its responsibilities towards its customers. Oh, and BREIN, thank you for breaking the law and showing yourself as ordinary criminals. If you had not done so I would have potentially picked StreamWorld as my new host.

Filed Under: Personal, Rant, The Web Tagged With: Dedicated, Hosting, Internet, Servers, WorldStream

Plug’em if ya Got’em

February 15, 2011 by Stefan Didak 4 Comments
Dorotaya & Bill Sample Photograph

What good is a website with bazillion of visitors from all over the world when you don’t have something to plug? My soon-to-be mother-in-law and her soon-to-be-husband are avid photographers that have really been busy with taking more pictures and setting up their online portfolio’s. Since it’s no secret that I’m a camera-bag stuffer and serious about my hobby that involves wielding big lenses and heavy gear it may not come as a surprise that I’m plugging Dorataya’s website and Bill’s Art By Camera sites.

Filed Under: Personal, Photography, The Web Tagged With: Photographs, Photography, Plug

Review of Mozy 2.0 for Mac OSX

February 14, 2011 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
Mozy 2.0 for Mac OSX

A little while ago Sallie asked me to check out and test (well, review, really) Mozy 2.0 for Mac OSX. Since I had recently added Apple hardware (for initial experiences read this post)to the home office it made sense to give it a quick test. In retrospect it wasn’t a quick test but a rather long one because judging an online backup application requires some time to really look at what it’s doing and how it’s doing it.

Filed Under: Apple Software, Software Tagged With: Apple, Backup, Fileslinger, OSX, Review, Software

Web-bits 06/02/2011

February 6, 2011 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
This week's web-bits

Great, so now I have this whole new site with a fresh layout and an more efficient way of adding stuff. Why not make use of it. There’s often too many small things that I wouldn’t want to highlight or write as a single short blog post (what, me being short?! when has that ever happened?) so here I was thinking (yes, it happens, on occasion!) why not combine those small bits into a more regular update post. I can’t predict what these (hopefully) regular updates will contain but you’ll just have to wait and see. In this post; development bits, home office bits, photography bits, and some world news that’ll make you either laugh or shake your head.

Filed Under: Web-Bits Tagged With: 3D, Apple, Blogging, California, Communication, Desk, Forums, Fun, Graphics, Hardware, Home Office, iMac, Mac, Macintosh, News, Photography, Software Development, Surface, Web-bits

Some pictures of my older office versions

February 5, 2011 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
Stefan Didak OLD Home Office from even before version 5

My colleague Bruce just asked me why there weren’t any pictures from my home office versions prior to what I call “version 5”. Good question. Probably because the pictures aren’t too great and I don’t actually have all that many. I can’t even find a single decent (or indecent!) image from back in the earlier days of the office. But I did find a few older ones that predate the “version 5” so I’ve given them a nice little page of their own. Don’t ask me what the specs were on the systems that were there at the time since most of these date back to, I believe, between 1999 and 2001. So yeah, these are a decade old and most of them were shot with an Olympus E-10, one of the first digital SLR’s on the market back then. For those who pay attention, yes, there were still a fewAmiga’s around at the time but even in the 1999 period I didn’t use them. A friend once said I only used those Amiga’s to keep dust of my desks and in a way he was right about that. My use of Amiga’s died off sometime around 1991-1992.

Filed Under: Hardware, Home Office Tagged With: 3D, Graphics, Hardware, Home Office, Images, Multi-Monitor, Network, Photographs, Pictures, Software Development

Do not fear, this is the correct web-site!

February 4, 2011 by Stefan Didak 2 Comments
The Old Stefan Didak Website

I know. I understand. Don’t worry, though! You really did reach the correct web-site. If you’re a new visitor to the site, fine, ignore all of this. If you’re a regular or recurring visitor, then yes, you will notice there’s something a little different. I decided that since hand coding my website style and design in 2006 it was time for an overhaul (wouldn’t you agree if you see all those old websites that look like they still live in the mid 90’s?). Not just the style but the functionality too. I would like to say it was a huge effort but I found it to be a rather smooth and easy experience and I’ve always said, I’m not a web-guy or web-designer of any kind. But I suspect that having done “rocket science stuff” for so long makes everything feel like it’s a lesser complexity

Filed Under: Personal, The Web Tagged With: Graphics, News, Overhaul, Personal, Style, Website, WordPress

CommSupport caught infringing on copyright

February 3, 2011 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
CommSupport caught infringing on copyright

CommSupport, a company in England that specializes in Cisco CCNA and CCNP Training is just another company from the “dime a dozen” bunch that end up using my Home Office as decoration on their website because “they didn’t know”. Unfortunately for those on the wrong end of a copyright infringement claim, the excuse of not knowing where an image came from or who it might belong to and who holds the copyright is no excuse and no court would accept that. It’s really very simple. Taking content that may be copyrighted and using it for any purposes, commercial or otherwise, is like putting on a blindfold and walking through a mine-field. Some people might like that extreme sport.

Filed Under: Infringer Tagged With: Copyright, Exposed, Exposure, Fun, Images, Infringement, Legal, Photographs, Website

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