Classic Tech Tips Archive

Looks like I'm back. There are too many irons in the fire to say when I'll get this site looking like I want it, but for now it's up and running and who knows... .maybe will see some fresh activity i…

Hmmmm. I haven't posted here in ages. Lots going on. At one point I used this as a journal for tech stuff. Somewhere along the way I got sidetracked into a lot of other things. I'm wondering though i…

So, in the last year I've organized an LLC and my computer repair and support service as well as other technology services are now known as Diversified Tech Solutions. Among other things we are a Nap…

Have you ever visited a website and had someone start talking to you.  No not over your shoulder, from the page itself?  I have and I'm still not decided on whether it's a good thing or not.  I ca…

And... there was also a caffeine update.  Well, mid October there was an update to Panda - somewhere in there was a Vince update and then caffeine saw an update in early November.  Did you notice a…

Change is constant. The last couple of years I have been doing less onsite computer service. Health has been one large reason for that. I have been focusing on other things though. One of the things …

When you are hiring someone for most positions a criminal background check is a high priority. Especially if the person you are hiring will interact with your family or with children. The internet ha…

Absolutely shockingly high interest rates.... Wow. The last year or so I've seen a lot of westernsky.com ads. They are an LLC that is native-american owned and operating in the sovereign nation of th…

I have been absolutely addicted. A week ago Thursday I discovered a new site. It was an article over at the makezine blog talking about the benefits of learning mandarin for what they do. I've always…

Drupal 7 has become the flagship version of the content management platform. Last year I was setting up a couple of webstores with Drupal 6 and e-commerce modules (addons) for it collectively called …

I use linux. I prefer it over Windows for many reasons. It's more resistant to viruses, less of a target, but that doesn't mean that malware or other viruses are impossible. If someone were to trick …

It seems that things happen in clusters, sometimes it's more of a chain reaction. My longtime working laptop lost the ability to backlight the display. Yes, the backlight is replacable with a couple …

So, today there is an advertising supported kindle that sells for $25 less than its cheapest cousin which is the kindle wifi. What will it look like? The screensavers are one place that ads will show…

Well - Friday things started getting interesting on tech news sites. Most sites were running phony April fools stories and a few including websense was running with a major attack going on against ma…

A couple of years ago I was given an aliph jawbone bluetooth headset. It was really convenient for using the phone without having to hold your cell phone up to your ear. Unfortunately it was stolen a…

Wow.... Let me just say that I have typically been inundated with junk mail on my primary address. It's associated with this domain and has been hosted in an older sendmail setup for quite some time …

The Kindle is a wonderful portable reading device from amazon.com. I have one and enjoy it greatly, however I was looking for a case to get to carry it in. Why a case? I feel it's a bit conspicuous w…

For the record.... no. Not in the least. I bought a Kindle 3 in December and have been using it quite a bit since then. Of course, the first few weeks I used it an awful lot. (It was around the Chris…

Last night I was working with an older HP laptop and things hit the fan very quickly. I discovered I couldn't write a file to disk and before I knew it the system had thrown up to a black screen and …

This will be the first of several posts looking in detail at the Kindle 3. Amazon has got at least one thing VERY right. Simplicity. The packaging is simple, you open the box and the kindle has direc…

Last year I got a Sansa Clip Plus 8GB. I just wanted to do a followup post after I've used it for a while. One year on (well 11 months on....) it's still rock solid. I've had no problems with it, it …

In the last several months (since the Kindle 3 came out) I've been seriously looking at ereaders. Of course, the iPad came out early this year and was all the buzz. It looks great of course and Apple…

Just a quick note for what is really a simple fix. I have been using rsnapshot to back up several machines lately. If you haven't taken a look at rsnapshot on linux for managing snapshot backups (whe…

Scanners... I had a nice microtek scanner that for the last year has refused to work and I decided to replace it. I have a project coming up that would require scanning some larger format pages so I …

Just updated some information on the Virtualization page adding some information about virtualbox which I have spent some time with lately. I've also had a big vpn/dd-wrt project going which I've tea…