The original Acer nettop that we installed in the kitchen was finally being just too slow for my wife to bother using it. So, last weekend we upgraded it to a brand new Asus Chromebox and she’s loving it.
And, since the 10 year old Ubuntu-running Celeron desktop acting as our media server gave up the ghost a few days ago (it just turned off and wouldn’t turn on again,) the Acer is our new media server as of this morning.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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