Microsoft Web Platform
For those who have looked at doing their own web hosting the acronym LAMP or WAMP is familiar: Linux/Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Wrapped in an easy to install package with some management thrown in this is a simple one…
Category Technology
eVGA and Nvidia Video troubles
About two weeks ago I experienced some PC troubles. I came back to my desk to find my PC locked up: the screen had rows or red dashes running over everything else. I power cycled the PC but now those rows…
Nero StartSmart Essentials
Nero just released a free disc burning program: Nero StartSmart Essentials, based on Nero 9. I’ve used the Nero software that came with my CD and DVD burners over the years and found them easy to use so I thought…
Windows System Control Center
You may have stumbled upon the collection of one trick utilities from Sysinternals (now owned by Microsoft) or NirSoft. All kinds of items written to perform specific tasks the authors saw as a need: password recovery, page file defragmentation, etc. …
Microsoft Security Essentials
I’m a big fan of free and luckily there is no shortage of free real time anti-virus and anti-spyware utilities available to Windows users. The big news of the week was Microsoft’s beta release of Microsoft Security Essentials. As part…
OpenDNS and private IP addressing
Several years ago my ISP’s DNS servers were down and I went looking for a replacement and came across OpenDNS. I found web sites responded faster and I was very happy with the service. Unfortunately I barely scratched the surface…
WordPress 2.8 Released
This site is made possible because of WordPress. I had started eBabble.net with NetObjects Fusion many years ago but wanted to move to a platform that would let me add and edit content from anywhere. My first attempts were with…
SP 2 released for Vista and Server 2008
I was checking system updates on Tuesday and noticed Service Pack 2 was available for my Vista Ultimate 64 bit PC. I don’t remember a service pack being released and on the same day being available via Windows Update. As…
Belkin USB Charger
Blast from the past: originally published July 26th 2002. Now that I’m getting some use out of my HP Jornada 547 Pocket PC, I’m hot on the trail of useful accessories. Since my model came with a serial cable connection…