Vex Star

So, according to Tom’s Hardware, SSD drives actually use more battery power than regular drives.Dude, that suck. Considering that I get like 2 hours tops on my fucking piece of shit MBP battery right now when wifi is on.

I can pull 3h+ still with my MB with my battery at 74% life.

December 12th, 2008 | Tags: energy, Guy Kawasaki, Kubuntu, Manitoba, SCSI, SQL, technology of solid state disk, Toms Hardware | Category: general | Leave a comment

I am looking to get into programming/Dev work.
I have been doing HW/network/tech support for a long time and I am burned out on it. I was talking to one of our developers at work and he suggested reading up on and starting with C# and ASP.net.
Any suggestions/thoughts/book recommendations for a newby? I have absolutely 0 [...]

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