November 22, 2006 08:09 by
MarkWell, my blog has been down for some time while I found a new host. My old
one was FreeWebDot and I had a free account. It worked great until they got
DOS'd and stopped their free service. I'm now on Hosting A To Z. I had a few problems getting
dasBlog running at first, but they were pretty quick to fix it. Hopefully I'll
start posting some useful stuff here again soon.
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April 18, 2006 23:54 by
MarkJust moved to a new server and I am testing to see if posting works!
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November 23, 2005 12:12 by
MarkI wonder if Google will be setting up free city-wide WiFi for every city they have offices in? I hope so, because they are going to be opening an office in Phoenix soon!
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October 13, 2005 22:25 by
MarkA couple of days ago, our webserver lost a hard drive.
Unfortunately, I didn't have a recent backup of my blog. I had been
using .Text previously and I told my friend who runs the server I
didn't need my site backed up, since all the data was in the database.
Then I switched over to dasBlog and I forgot about the fact that it
stores data in XML files. Anyway, I had some of my content files on my
local system from when I upgraded from version 1.7 to 1.8 of dasBlog.
Between that and the Google
cache of my main page, I was able to get all of my posts back. Thanks
Google!
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September 14, 2005 17:35 by
MarkIf you want to remove ads from MSN Messenger, but you don't want to go to the extremes documented
here, there is another option.
Open the file c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in notepad and add the following line:
0.0.0.0 rad.msn.com
The banner ad at the bottom of the main
messenger window will stop cycling and will just display the MSN
Messenger logo. The text ads in the IM windows will be gone too.
This information is for educational purposes only :)
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July 27, 2005 17:25 by
Mark
It looks like Microsoft is catching up with most of the
Linux distributions I've ran over the last few years, in at least one way. Vista will have
the capability for users to run as a "non-priveledged" user instead of
admin, but still be able to perform admin tasks without logging off and
back on as admin.
This feature has been around forever on UNIX (and UNIX-like)
operating systems at the commandline. The "su" command would let you
run as root whenever you needed it. I know Windows has had the "runas"
command for a while now too, but it is a little more of a pain to use.
Most Linux distributions also have a feature in their windowing
environment, like KDE or GNOME where if you try to do something that
requires root, it prompts you for the root password and continues. It
looks like Windows Vista
will have this feature too, finally!
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June 17, 2005 10:26 by
MarkI recently had a problem with my Presario R3000 laptop. The battery was completely drained and would not charge. The laptop is still under warranty, so I figured I would contact support and see what my options were. Before doing that thought I checked the Compaq/HP support website to see if there were any updates for my laptop. There was a firmware update that was supposed to fix a problem where if the battery is completely drained, the laptop won't charge it. Hey, that sounds like my problem! So, I flashed my laptop's firmware with the new release. Everything went well, but it didn't seem to help my battery problem. So, I decided to contact HP. I went back to their website and noticed they have an option to do a live chat online with tech support. So, I clicked the link and I was greeted by a tech almost immediately. That was a surprise! He got my details and gave me a procedure to try to "recalibrate" the battery. I was pretty sure this wouldn't work, but I figured I should at least try it. I did the procedure and as I thought, it didn't help. So, the next day I got back on the tech support website and started a new chat. The tech got online right away and I explained my problem and told him what I had done the previous day. He said it sounds like my battery really is dead and that since it is under warranty, they would send me a new one at no charge. HP shipped it FedEx overnight, with a return label for my old battery. I put the new battery in and everything is working great!
Anyway, just thought I'd share this, since most of the time all I read are horror stories about tech support! Thanks HP!
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June 7, 2005 22:39 by
MarkInternet Explorer 7 is getting tabs. That's great! I really like the tabbed interface in Firefox. In this blog entry, Tony mentions how Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer share code:
Another example of what makes this challenging is that IE and Explorer windows share the same code for the frame and chrome (toolbars, menus, etc.), which means there are more code paths and different types of interactions with the hosted view (in this case, a ShellView) that were required to continue working after adding tabbed browsing to IE.
That got me thinking how nice it would be if Windows Explorer had tabs too. I always find myself with about 6 or 7 Explorer windows open after working on my PC for a while. It would be great to just have them all in tabs in one window. So how about it Microsoft, can we have tabs in Windows Explorer too?
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April 12, 2005 22:06 by
MarkIt's funny how all of a sudden Cherry OS turned into the
Cherry Open Source Project. Gee, is it maybe because they are just re-packaging
this project's code?
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April 12, 2005 07:22 by
MarkLooks like MSN Spaces is having some troubles today. It would drive me nuts not to be able to go see what's going wrong and fix it!
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