Logging into the Windows 2003 Server felt like Zaphod Beeblebrox trying to fly Mr Hotblack Desiato’s spaceship: “Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you’ve done it. What is this?” [...]
I’ve got a user who was experiencing repeated issues printing PDFs to his HP 1022n printer. About every 5-10 days,printing would grind to a halt, and the Print Spooler would repeatedly crash. Usually a restart of the computer (or the Print Spooler service) would fix the problem, but it was rapidly becoming a major pain [...]
When I started working for my new employer, one of the biggest problems staring me in the face was an aging BlackBerry Professional server. Running on an aging Windows 2000 server, this BB Professional version 4 server was licensed for 11 users, but was supporting over 20 BlackBerry users. It looked like the previous admin [...]
Today I had someone ask me how to keep bots off of their forum. They were seeing a noticed slowdown in the site when it was being indexed. That and they don’t want their “crazy cat lady talk” indexed on Google. So here goes: if you want to keep Google off of your site – [...]
When I logged on to post an update today, I was greeted with the error message: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 208834 bytes) in /public_html/* (where * represented the path to any file in the wp-admin portion of one of my blogs). The content/end-user portion of the blogs were showing [...]
This weekend my wife asked me to help her put together some videos for her cooking website. Since I was playing with Adobe Premiere Elements anyways, I thought it would be no problem at all. My outlook changed once she gave me all of the source videos – they were all in DiVX or flash [...]
So I’m in the process of preparing to take my A+ exams (along with one of my employees as kind of a buddy challenge) and my MCSE, as we’re ready to wave goodbye to NetWare. Trying to squeeze both in at once has been a bit of a challenge, so I thought I’d look through [...]
Firefox has released 3.0b1 and I’ve been eagerly awaiting a version that leaked less memory than a sieve, so I thought I’d give it a go. After downloading it, I was very impressed with it’s performance and styling updates. What didn’t impress me was the lack of add-ons. I mean, how can I possibly live [...]
Like most aspiring dot-com moguls, I am fairly dependent on staying in Google’s good graces. I’ve got $122.72 in my AdSense account right now, waiting for the next payout. If I manage to get my AdSense account suspended or banned, I won’t see a penny of it – ever. Since I try hard to keep [...]
So, you have some books laying around? Think selling them online could make you come cash and clear out some space? It’s definitely a possibility, but where should you sell them? There are five major options for the amateur bookseller: Half.com, Amazon, eBay, ABE and Alibris. All five have their strengths and weaknesses, but my [...]