Computer Tips -Tech Info

Recovering Data from a Dying Hard Drive. This is something that I probably do at least once a month. Is it really possible to recover data from a hard drive that is failing? It depends. It depends on the state of the drive and what kind of tools you have available at hand. Many people […]

BBPress is forum software written by the makers of WordPress. It can share user registration databases with wordpress, supports rss feeds and can be nice and lean. I’ve used it for a couple sites and will use this page to keep track of the official site, support forums, themes and extensions. bbpress.org – Official bbpress.org […]

One of the things I think I like most about the web browser Mozilla Firefox is the flexibility of using extensions to give you more features. Some of my current favorites are the Google Calendar extension that shows you’re calendar events in the status bar. The Gmail notifier is also a favorite of mine. It’s […]

I make use of openvpn almost on a daily basis when I’m out in the world and use my laptop to connect to the internet. I’ve done several projects related to openvpn which I’ll detail in this page. For starters: openvpn.net and their howto. If you’re not familiar with openvpn it is an open source […]

WordPress is the software I use for this and several other sites. It’s traditionally considered blogging software, but can be used as CMS (Content Management Software) as well. It’s a powerful platform with a wide variety of publicly available themes and extensions to extend functionality. It’s also dead-easy to use and it makes it very […]

Articles on this site form the rogue antivirus category: Virus Removal The absolute BEST way to make absolutely certain that a system is clean is to wipe it fresh and reinstall Windows XP. Unfortunately, many people lose their Windows XP install cds, or never received it from the pc manufacturer (which is worth a several […]

I spent the better part of a Friday night sorting this out. I had just launched 4 new wordpress blogs that were secondary installs on each server. (I use a VPS and /home/domain/www/ was the primary wordpress install – the secondary installs existed at /home/domain/www/secondsite ) . The problem was that I switched on the […]

I’ve started using a “universal translator” plugin for wordpress across most of my sites lately. In the past I’ve seen many people using google or bablefish translation to view pages (according to the logs.) I thought it would be a great convenience and perhaps open up my posts to be searched by viewers who read […]

I thought I’d forgo the idea of posting several separate posts and make just one long page to talk about the various Ubuntu installs that I have. I hope the details may be useful to anyone installing on similar hardware or with a similar setup. In the last week I’ve upgraded or installed Ubuntu 8.04 […]

dd-wrt is an alternative firmware for a variety of routers. The most popular (and one of the first) that can be used with dd-wrt is the Linksys-Cisco WRT54GL Wireless-G Broadband Router. So, why would you want alternative firmware on your router? The stability can be improved for one, but there are also a large number […]