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This morning Isaac hit New Orleans, 7 years to the day after they dealt with Katrina.  The levee isn’t the only new thing being used to lessen the effects of the hurricane.  The supercomputers Louisiana used to simulate Katrina have been upgraded over the past 7 years.  The computer models help to inform emergency planners …

Eberly Systems is doing an end of summer contest! The contest will run from Wednesday, August 22 until Monday, September 3, 2012.  The prizes awarded during this contest are Best Buy gift cards, a 64GB flash drive, and an Apple TV device. This contest will be run similar to a drawing in that a person …

I.T. Technicians can often guess what office workers favorite snacks are, just by looking at their keyboards.  Orange crumbs are a dead giveaway that someone enjoys cheese-flavored crackers, while other keyboards may contain pieces of popcorn kernels or even gooey drops of old coffee.  For those who would like to keep their snacking habits to …

For those who enjoy a good conversation the new social media site, Branch, might be exactly what they’re looking for.   As they state in their promo video, “There’s nothing like a good conversation.”  It seems Branch’s goal is to offer a place where people can pose questions and give opinions, without the conversation being …

Eberly System’s new website is making tracks!! After performing extensive “Site Optimization”, a recent test on “www.pingdom.com” we scored a 97 (of 100) on their Performance grade, and loaded faster than 94% of websites that have been tested using their tools. To compare to pre-optimized specs, our final site design, BEFORE tuning, was 1.7mb in …