Tag: computers
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Star Trek’s Enterprise Made From an Old Hard Drive [pic]
A little over a year ago, I posted one persons Star Trek creation where they created the USS Enterprise out of office supplies like a couple of pens and a CD. Well, as cool as that was, I prefer it when the Enterprise has a little more storage space than just 700MB and apparently I…
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This Floppy Disk Coffee Table is Every Computer Geeks Dream! [pic]
It never ceases to amaze me just how far technology has come since I was a kid. Last night UPS dropped off a 64GB USB drive (Black Friday impulse buy from Office Depot) and I am amazed that they can put 64GB of storage in something the size of my thumb when I grew up…
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Cyberman Ctrl Alt Del Shirt [pic]
Although I rarely do the three key solute these days, I don’t even know how many times I have had to use the Ctrl + Alt + Del keyboard combination on older computers. It is amazing just how far we have come in terms of having stable computers where things rarely hang or crash to…
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Ghostbuster’s Theme Played by Eight Floppy Drives [video]
I still can’t believe that some people have taken old floppy drives and turned them into musical instruments. In the past, I have posted videos of the themes of a number of shows being played by floppy drives such as the Star Trek: The Next Generation theme and the Doctor Who theme, but now eight…
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Steampunk USB Drive [pic]
I tend to stick with using USB drives that are pretty plain just because using ones that are all big and fancy isn’t really practical when computer manufactures place USB ports so close together that if the drive is much bigger than the port itself, you won’t be able to use the port next to…
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Passive Aggressive WiFi SSID Battle [pics]
I’ve seen a lot of geeks get creative in naming their wireless networks, but this is the first time I have seen it escalate into a war of SSIDs. This is geek humor at its finest! I don’t know who the waring factions are, but at I am glad to see this ended with one…