When we started to prepare a team for sale, sometimes shows the progression of Murphy, a case of Murphy's law. I stated as follows: "When something starts to go wrong, is still going to end badly."

This week we have had an HTPC in the store with that luck . When the client asks me the budget, coincided with another customer with the same name, similar name and same province. Besides the computers were very similar, budgets facts on the same day, and one of them send me pawned in the budgets of the other, hence we started with this order mistakes.

In the end I asked the two PCs. One almost a month earlier than the other. The morning came when the box because it did not appear the same color who live in the photo. He warned at the end and change the box. We touched wait another week, while the box came, we changed everything and Probab. In the meantime, left a new model of motherboard, the customer tells us that if you change the bearing. We say that without a problem. We ask the board and as a new era, it takes another week to arrive. So it spent two weeks late.

When they finally assemble it all, the TV tuner fails us. We are writing to be tested, and that is broken, it seems that both mount and dismount, then something has been affected, or as I say, that you already played and therefore better than I was to break me.

The RMA and sent while calling for a new one. But not locate the tuner anywhere. The wholesaler makes us a fertilizer, because it has no more cards to make the change. Advise the client and it tells us that is waiting to see if the tuner looted. And while the similar name of another client, who had done a budget almost equal, we asked the PC, same box, almost the same inside, but with Linux.

After waiting two more weeks, then ask us to send you the HTPC and see what we do with the card. When my partner is to be prepared and sent the bill makes it detects an error in the budget that I had done. Called me Me and my catches, peleándome with hosting, because it was the day I found the blog that day ... I was very thick and confusing budgets, I tell my partner that does not block the budget, because that goes with PC Linux and not have to add the price of Windows. My partner comes to uninstall Windows and install Myhtbuntu.

And less evil than when I clearance, I realize that I was wrong and we have to recover the PC's transport ... communication to the client to explain that we were wrong and that the budget would take even one more day. Reminds us that the customer has moved in the direction of those weeks and we have to send the HTPC to the new address, you do not have to count the final, put the original address. Because as we did not want to confuse us, we went to look for the original request was for a month ...

So long as there was possibility of mistake with this client, we did. We always have a couple of cases a year well into the store. It is as if I wrong once, try to form particular to that request, your head does not follow the usual processes and the increased attention, is truncated to more mistakes ... the progression of Murphy.

Sure it has happened to you: you've gone to open an account with a service and you've found with the name that you were going to choose is already occupied . Then in a matter of domain names is much worse. Every day it becomes more difficult to find one that is original, attractive and that is free.

The choice of a domain name is a very important step to create a website, whether a blog, a portal, a service. It is not something that should be taken lightly because it may depend on the ease with which our site is found, your Pagerank and until its positioning as a brand. Here are some recommendations when choosing a name . Keep in mind that they are not categorical statements, as there are many popular sites on the Web that are not followed in choosing his own. But you can serve at the time of giving with this set of letters that identify your place on the web.

As must be the name

• Short : possibly a word or two, three or four at most.


• Memorable : in the sense of "easy to remember" not "worthy of being remembered."


• Related with the content of the web. It is obvious, but sometimes a name we can get to dazzle and then has nothing to do with what we do.


• With keywords that relate to your content . At least, you have one. If your site is going to be about, for example, books, it should at least have that word or a synonym in the name.

That should not take the name

• Do not use eñes (n) : although it is now admitted its use in domains, people are still accustomed to not ever put them in a web address. Much time has to pass until you become accustomed, so ...


• Avoid hyphens (-) and sub (_) : its use in domain names makes it easy to confusion when they are written, even more so when you have to say it out loud: "blog-and-web. com "becomes" blog and dash dash dot com website. "


• Evita as far as possible the little-known words and spelling doubtful : Will it be with axes? ¿Be or UVE? ¿Gastropods ... what? Those are questions that your prospective visitors should not be made at time of writing your address.


• Beware of the names in English : if you decide to use them, choose words that are easy to write and if possible, be written as pronounced. A good example is the name of this blog.


• Evita numbers : they are difficult to remember and easy to confuse ( "do you write two or 2?"). Although there are always exceptions, such as 233grados.


• Avoid long names : as time passes and more domain names are registered, the easier it is to fall into the temptation to find a name for the old method of adding more and more words. But a long name is hard to remember.


• Evita articles (the, the, the ...) : well, to the eye, I dare say that most of the domains do not use them, it's best not to follow the trend that to avoid what users are accustomed.

Steps to choose a name

• Make a list prior : and the longer the better. It starts with the names you're most like and try different combinations. Note this all, even the rarest. A time to make the list, bear in mind the above. Considers short phrases, expressions, including prepositions or conjunctions, and so on. The list, the longer the better.


• Debug or sort the list : Leela aloud. If a name sounds bad to you, delete it. If you see that is confusing, delete it. Continue removing according to different criteria: length, difficulty remembered, easy to write, and so on. Or better: Make a table in a word processor and map them a score to each name, for example the 1-10. Then, Order from highest to lowest score based on criteria such as those already mentioned.


• Check the ownership of each name : beginning with the first, it enters Whois.net (although there are many other services) and verify whether it is free. Do it in the order obtained by checking the list and, preferably, if available for. Com and. Net. Unless your site is focused on users of a particular country, better forget about local domains (. Com,. Sg,. Co, etc). Always point to the. Com: they are the best known, the most commonly used, the more ... Yes, also the most expensive, to be denied. But if you are original and imaginative with your name, you surely do not cost much.


• Join sooner : If there's luck, you will not have to take a lot to give to a free and unless it is extremely insual, others give you is not in a hurry to register. Pisen you the name once you've chosen would not be surprising: Things have been rare. Anyway, if the cost is not high and then you regret, you can always use the name for any other project.

The other day a colleague comes from my company in the mornings at the shop. Came to pick up some orders that we had done for some digital Christmas gifts. A digital camera, two software packages (if there are, there are people who give away programs for Christmas) and a pair of MP3.

And while I was paying me said:

- I have some days that do not strike you remember.

- Why a good thing?

- By promoting the devil's notebook.

- How?

"If this man promoting us that if the customer buys the product X, we offer you a notebook of those little one. I've two mornings that I do not do more than answer questions about the laptop. Explain that does not carry DVD recorder, which is only dark in color, which is not in pink or white, that does not bring a printer, if you can play with him, if you can connect to the TV, if that serves to child to take you to the University, if carried antivirus ...

- Ya, but you're accustomed to dealing with these customers.

- Yes, but if you ask me what we sell it that if I know. But if I had two that I said, charging that the promotion of cash (which can be done) and they come to see you and buy the laptop they want ... But look where that people will buy computer is mounted about tremendous trouble.

So I have my company in the mornings that has turned for a few days at my co-workers in makeshift vendors of information technology.

For many months ago, then Ubuntu and testing of the beautiful three-dimensional cube that gave us the possibility of having many virtual desktops in order to better distribute our work, I went back to Microsoft Windows in the hope that there is some program for that operating system that succeeded in creating the same three-dimensional cube to take over a desktop ... I never found ...

By chance, looking for another kind of appeal, ends at the official site for DeskSpace, a program so simple that just because we will have to install Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Vista in a cube in three dimensions that will give us six virtual desktops with whom to interact in the same manner as in Ubuntu with Compiz Fusion ...

Without doubt it interrupted doing everything that I download the trial version only has a size of less than 3 MBs, the installed, configure two or three options, and I already had my cube in three dimensions to work six desks ...

After three days of test it on my laptop under Microsoft Windows Vista, and most widely which exceeds the minimum requirement (800 Mhz processor, 256 MB of RAM and a video card with 16 MBs DirectX 8.1) , The consumption of system resources is extremely high, causing extreme slowness, which is not opaque by the benefits ... Of course I decided to uninstall it but not before writing an article about the same as if someone with better computer, or different, I wanted to give him a chance to DeskSpace Greetings ... ...

Antec has introduced a new family member Sonata. This time, instead of calling Sonata IV, it should seem very royalist to replublicanos Americans, have called for the Sonata Elite.

The box resembles the current Sonatas III, but it is a little higher, which serves to increase the capacity of hard drives inside them. We also have the system abosorción noise that used in the Sonata Designer, with carbon fiber on doors. This very well chilled with a 12cm fan. in the rear, side openings and a return to a system that already bore the Sonata I, with a fan type turbine located on the graphics card in order to draw heat from that area of the box:

The price therefore in line with the current Sonata, which seems to be by 110 to 120 Euros. A good choice if you want a box with great ability, minimalist design and make little noise.

Now that (touch wood) it seems that I have the hosting and running, I could hear more about the problems he had.

It seems that everything has two different causes, but were mixed. First, on 2, 3 and Dec. 5, I had some kind of attack on the blog. These days, the page views went from 7,500 to 25,000 on average. That caused the first fall. In those moments where the American company had subcontracted the shelter since closed and instead of notifying me of my, told the Spanish company with the contract that I and these were on the bridge ...

And then I have walked by at least three different servers in eight days, until the end, it appears that the problem was partly inspired by WordPress, as I said Derkeshtai in this commentary. It is, I have more visits from the feeds, which directly on the blog. the ratio is nearly 50% more readings from feed, which directly. The feeds were not redirected to any site, gave them service directly from my blog. And it seems that, in the version that was installed Wordpress, consumed a lot of RAM on the server and it was another case of disconnection.

They have taken ten days to find him. But yesterday's account which had already been redirected and Feedburner feeds there. And in the control panel of hosting, ram memory consumption has dropped to only one third.

So now that estgo expect to continue working well.

Apple lanzà³ ³ n versiàa new Mac OS X Leopard that solves problems associated with almost 40 operating system.

The versià³ n 10.5.6 improves compatibility with Safari Web Proxy servers, the performance of Time Machine with Time Capsule, problems with iChat, with the aplicacià³ n Mail, and màs.

One big change that is incorporated estàrelated service called sincronizacià³ n MobileMe . Segຠn reported the same compaà± ÃÂa, contacts, calendars and bookmarks on a Mac can be synchronized in less than a minute and the changes were seen No podràràrapidly into other devices or Web site.

It includes, ademàs, an updated ³ n crÃÂtica for Flash, which corrects errors discovered last month. © Tambiàn add bookshelves and patching 21 bugs.

The new versiàshall be available for download from the mechanism itself shall updated operating system or from Apple's website.

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Festivals can be a little à© to pass quietly with the family, eating and toasting. But tambià© n can be dangerous sometimes with both feast together! Like any good geek, tenà© s that have equipped your iPhone for any ocasià³ n. From an innocent family photo until emergency mà© dicas!

A continuaciàentry, some of the best applications to install on the telefonito Apple, and leave it intact for the holidays!

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The agreement between HP and Boston Power is the incorporaciàranging from the baterÃÂas Sonata Ià³ n Lithium in the new HP notebooks .

From 2009 the estaràHP notebooks equipped with these new high-performance baterÃÂas , and even the same n estaràavailable for those who have old equipment 'to' and we want to change our old baterÃÂas worn by new baterÃÂas that are even cleaner.

HP has been conducting tests with the company Boston Power for incorporaciàranging from the baterÃÂas Sonata Lithium Ià³ n, 'to' and yet after 3 ± os of testing, it has been shown to the baterÃÂas were able to preserve yet n 80% of its initial charge . This is a detail to take into account, since the conventional baterÃÂas begin to lose their ability to reload after the first ± or use yet.

In this case, à© stas new baterÃÂas tambià© ecolà³ n are more logical as far as possible, because

PVC or heavy metals for fabricacià³ n , ademàs that are màs cheaper to recycle.
The price? seràsays that between $ 20 and $ 30 more than the normal ones being sold now.

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