Classic Tech Tips Archive

For a while with Google's webmaster tools they've reported to you which url's they get 404 errors when spidering your site. Now with the sitemaps and webmaster tools utility they'll show you where th…

This is a question I see quite a bit... in fact I just saw this questoin while browsing the web. Generally it's NOT a good idea to have more than one antivirus program. Given the low level system acc…

Good linux format review of the new features and the overall feel (if you can get to it this morning. The main openoffice.org site is down at the moment. New features include a plugin for pdf import,…

Google Search Insights - a great tool from google that can give you detailed information on what people in different areas are searching for. Find out what the popular search terms are, where they ar…

The days of relying on WPA or WPA2 as your online layer of wireless security may be numbered. A new technique that makes use of NVIDIA's newer GPU's to do some of hte processing means that it's possi…

I have started referring to malware more and more lately because the term virus doesn't exactly describe the pests I see on peoples machines and the terms spyware or adware aren't doing justice to so…

BBPress is nice, lean forum software from the makers of wordpress. I just wanted to do a quick post to make note of a good forum - bbpress showcase forum that has listings of plugins and other things…

My brother does a variety of things, as I do including the front line of dealing with todays technology. This means looking to calls about DSL modem outages and problems. Well, he was passing along t…

Has Google gone too far with the purchase of GrandCentral? "One number that rings all your phones" (and in the darkness binds them?) There are already great privacy concerns with google. This new acq…

So, I went to adsense to check my stats and I get a page that is almost blank with the only text showing being UsernamePasswdNotMatch Ahhhhh.... what have I done to upset the Google overlords..... It…

Recently I've run across a realmedia stream that I really want to convert to mp3 (mainly because my portable player can't read rm files. I'll talk about capturing rm streams in another post, but this…

I've always had more than a passing interest in astronomy and physics... so when I found reference to this video series explaining how to visualize four spatial dimensions. Multiple spatial dimension…

Asheville NC Gas shortage, has some links and a gathering of prices and availabilities. It looks as though many stations in the Asheville area are out of gas.

Linux does quite well on this machine, but there is a problem with the built in ethernet (gigabit adapter). The hardware appears to be detected correctly, but the network card doesn't really work wit…

I guess the better way to put this is that this is an alternative way to download from megaupload. megaupload.com is a file storage site. If you pay them you can have unlimited downloads, but normall…

I've seen some high powered wireless cards from Senao, but... 500mw I think is the most powerful wireless radio I've seen. This Alfa USB adapter appears to require 2 (!) USB ports for full power, but…

Sometime back I setup my home server running Ubuntu Linux (6.06 - Dapper Drake LTS). I used two pairs of drives to do raid cloning. Two IDE drives were for the main system structure and two SATA driv…

Recently I had a request for help with some free pdf's I've published elsewhere. I wasn't really keen to spend a lot of time for free supporting free pdfs and really just wanted to give an alternativ…

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 w…

Sometimes you see a malware implementation that you have to have respect for the cleverness/ingenuity of the design. These pests can be dastardly to get rid of, but essentially this pest was occasion…

I've seen a lot of strange behavior from windows updates, but this apparently wasn't one. Essentially here is what was going on: the user would try to click on an attachment in Outlook 2003, particul…

Whois lookups are a handy and useful way to find out who owns a domain and when it expires. Sometimes it's easier to do a whois lookup on a domain YOU own to see when it expires than it is to go back…

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 th…

I vaguely remember hearing about Google Gears when it was announced and it wasn't the kind of thing that grabbed a lot of peoples imagination or a lot of attention. Here's the description from the Go…

Ugh.... you hate to see those exception OE messages. This particular one happened on an old Windows 98 machine. (Yes, I know, but they want to keep it in service if possible.) The full details are as…