What Are Your Tech Goals/Projects For 2010?

by Jason Faulkner on Jan 1, 2010 | 6 comments

Now that a new decade is upon us, there will be no shortage of technology predictions for this year. Instead, I would like to pose a question to our readers: do you have any tech related projects you are aiming to accomplish this year? If so, what?

Personally, I have quite a few development projects at work that I am going to try to improve and another in the ‘queue’ that I want to complete. I find that delivering a development project to a customer is quite rewarding, so I want to focus on that.

So what are your goals? build a website? start a blog? migrate to Linux? help with an open source project?

Please share in the comments.

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Paul
Hey Jason,
What I was going to say would have just gotten me in trouble, so I’ll just say I’m trying to find a Linux distro I can live with.
My monitor / v-card combo and Linux do not see eye to eye and I’m too old and grabby to deal with X-org. I find a distro that gives me a good display and there’s always something else that doesn’t work.
Maybe I’ll just stick to watching TV.
David Kennedy
At work, we’re launching a number of web applications that we hope will start to bring in revenue. Chief among them, several elearning courses. This past year has been laying the groundwork (LMS, eCommerce, etc), but they should ramp us this year.
Personally, I’m hoping to build my first homebuilt PC to replace a troublesome Dell laptop. Bit of a learning curve there. I also hope mid year to launch my first self developed application. Doubt it will make me rich, but if it pulls in a few hundred a month, I’ll consider it successful.
And, maybe writing more for pcmech. Thus far, David Risley is as slow to post them as I am to write them. But, who knows…
Steve Stone
I’m trying to build out a county wide slow speed wireless e-mail application that can bypass a “last mile” failure during emergencies or disasters (volunteer Ham radio group). So far I have a couple of short hop VHF AX.25 1200/9600 baud nodes completed and a long haul (thousands of miles hop) HF link using Pactor 3. For more info check out http://www.winlink.org
Larry
A while ago it was recommended to us that we get dragon naturally speaking to help my sons school work as he has a slight learning disability . we found dragon 10 preferred on sale at a boxing day sale for a really good price . So I will be teaching him how to use it and then add a blue tooth dongle and head set so he can sit on the couch and do his homework on My 37 inch TV . ( A note to Steve above nice to see that there is still some innovation in Amateur Radio.)
Larry VE7LGT
David M
I plan on hacking my DVR and installing a two terrabyte hard drive so I can store HD movies. A larger hard drive will also allow me to store television shows from more than three days ago. Right now my hard drive space is so low that my DVR has to overwrite television shows recorded from three days ago in order to record new shows. Yes, its legal to hack my DVR. I already looked into this.
I’m also going to build a new gaming computer towards the end of 2010. My present gaming computer will be ready to hand down to my son by then. (hey, its better than the one he has now) . Hopefully a dual GPU Nvidia “Fermi” graphics card will be available a year from now. If not, an ATI 5970 would work. No more water cooling and nothing that is top of the line (most expensive) except for a single graphics card. This means no more SLI or Crossfire for me…no RAID either. It will have one large hard internal drive with an external backup drive Keeping it simple (and fast) is the way to go. I may get an SSD to load my OS on if they are cheap enough a year from now, but at $3 per gig, that does not seem likely when large platter drives can be purchased for under 10 cents per gig right now.

Kidd
Let me know how the hack goes! I used an eSATA and External 1TB and went from 70% full down to 5% full of recording space. (easy solution) What you’re describing sounds like a good project, would you mind contacting me on the forums after you give it a go? I’m currently renting my HD DVR, and I’d have to purchase my own before taking this on. BTW- What kind of DVR do you have?
Forum handle = Kidd