Classic Tech Tips Archive

For quite a while I've used ghost4linux (g4l) for my disc cloning needs. What I REALLY like are the ability to do a network copy of the image to an ftp server and the built in dd_rescue to rescue dat…

I thought this writeup was interesting on the idea of using a web interface to customize a livecd. I've built a couple livecd's (that I still use) for tech support, but I'm always thinking of one mor…

The release date for the 7.10 Ubuntu release is coming soon. I've installed a beta into a virtual machine to see what's what and so far haven't had much time to play around. I seem to recall the loca…

I've mentioned lulu.com before (I have several products up there - a couple cds - music downloads - pictures - calendars - etc.) They've recently had a nice revision that ups the possibilities nicely…

I've been looking for a simple windows based web editor to recommend for someone. I use quanta plus on linux and would really have a hard time LEAVING it, but... there's of course dreamweaver and fro…

I don't know if anonymity is exactly acheived, but.... anyway not too long ago I explored/setup tor on my system to play around with, no real reason I suppose, but doing what I do it pays to be aware…

I've just been using miro the last few days and I ought to mention it here. It's a multiplatform program (windows/ mac/ linux) that let's you subscribe to video feeds (much like a podcast catcher doe…

I found this link of plugins for wordpress to aid in multilingual site building. I've been experimenting with English/Spanish designs of one site I maintain using plain html (index.html.en index.html…

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How many times have I seen the same chain email about who knows what... it always ends in something along the lines of "I don't know if this is true, but I figure I don't have anything to lose, so pa…

I've mentioned offline wikipedia access before mainly because for all it's flaws, wikipedia is probably the single largest, most comprehensive and best information resource out there. There may be ot…

I really don't know if I want to do this or not... but I found several sites talking about how to salvage the laser from a dvd burner and use it as a VERY high powered handheld laser. (i.e. "light th…

Display technology has come a long way, but the 3d holographic display that is so recognizable in hollywood special effects in movies like Star Wars have just not been anything within the realm of po…

The last few weeks have been fairly eventful and I've accumulated quite a few web pages open in tabs that I'm still holding open (just counted 49 tabs across two windows.) Many of these things are ju…

At least that's the theory.... someone has done a google sponsored search with a black background thinking they'll save 750 megawatt hours a year. Blackle.com is the site. Of course, I don't know if …

Of course, we've heard of skype, vonage, and our dsl/cable providers hawking VOIP. I thought I'd make a note of this one though as the name is a bit more obscure... packet8

I've had a fun time this week dealing with a STRANGE Vista problem on an HP computer (I doubt it's HP specific, but don't know for certain.) The error goes like this... "A problem has been detected a…

I would dare say there are more than a couple people "out there" right now that are puzzled as to WHY some of their mail is bouncing back to them as being rejected. Right now I'm talking about Bellso…

Why do I always wind up being the one to discover problems? .... Today in checking mail I found a mail that had bounced back from one of my clients that uses bellsouth... Now bellsouth has recently b…

I guess anytime technology changes it takes a bit of getting used to.... this video was recommended to me by a customer.

I've been puzzled a bit by the graphing output of gramps - it leaves me with a file with a .dot extension that I didn't know quite what to do with. It opened in text editors as just markup, no image …

I found this not too long ago at a techamok forum... copied here for convenience - not intended to slight the original author.... I only met my brother’s ex-girlfriend’s family once — the year …

As long as there have been wireless networks there have been people trying to squeeze out just a bit more range... there was the cantenna and now there are other variations on trying to collect and i…

I like the PDF file format for so many reasons - free writer under linux is one of them, usually it's just configured out of the box - openoffice does a nice export to PDF too. Of course, PDF is acce…

For years I've been using smartmontools on my linux-based machines. What I've absolutely LOVED about it is the advance notice I've had of hard drive failures. Two consecutive Decembers I received an …