Sometime after my review of Linksys’s CIT 200 cordless Skype phone, my phone claimed it was ‘unregistered’ and wouldn’t talk to the computer. Unfortunately, the manual does not tell you how to fix this situation. However, the Internet is a wealth of information and I came up with the following steps to fix the problem:Read More »CIT 200 – unregistered error & solution
One of my favorite things about Firefox is the Adblock/Filterset.G extension combination. I don’t mind some ads, but when most of the pages I go to have more whirling and spinning that a county fair, it makes me motion-sick! The… Read More »Adblock vs Google Adsense
StatCounter is by far my favorite log analysis software. It’s free, easy to use, and gives you great info about the visitors to your site.Read More »Website Analysis – StatCounter
If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make noise? If you have a great website, and no one goes to it, is it still a great website? The point is, if you don’t know who is going to your site, and why, you can’t adjust to your target audience.
I’ve looked at quite a few Website analysis products over the last couple of years. They have evolved from software you run on your log files, to little snippets of javascript you put on your site that report to a service provider who does all of the heavy lifting for you. Since I haven’t run an analysis on log files in a good 6 months, I’ll skip that category for today and focus on the hosted variety.
The software I’ve used the longest is Google Analytics, formerly Urchin. The fact that is now free is awesome, as I used to pay an arm and a leg for it. Read More »Website Analysis – Google Analytics
I’m not sure how a good web developer could put together such an ugly page, but the Web Devoloper’s Handbook is definitely chock full of everything you could ever want to know about web design. One of my favorite sections… Read More »Web Developer’s Handbook
I’ve been having issues reaching nodes inside my network, my ISP gave me VPN caccess, but it was flaky at best and never worked when I needed access. I used to run a PPTP on an old NT 4.0 server, but when I retired it I never got around to setting up another one b(because my ISP was now supposedly providing that service). I jusally got by with using VNC to connect to an outward facing computer, and using it to do what I needed.When I started using SSH to connect to servers from the outside, the concept of SSH tunneling intrigued me. I found the “SSH Tunnel Howto“, and thought I’d give it a whirl. Here’s what it says:
James Ogley has a post on his blog about watching DVDs on SUSE 10. I just finished loading it on one of my workstations and was dissapointed that this functionality was missing. One more reason to be thankful for the… Read More »DVDs on SUSE 10
Just found out that there is a command – ExtendOEMPartition – in sysprep that will allow you to expand NTFS disk partitions. From the Microsoft site: Using Sysprep to Extend Disk PartitionsWhen installing Windows XP Professional, you might find it… Read More »Using Sysprep to Extend Disk Partitions
mkeadle.org has a nice how-to on file, domain, and ad blocking with Squid. I found it extremely useful in setting up my squid box and thought I’d share. I used webmin to set up the ACLs, no no text editing… Read More »Basic Squid setup with file, domain, and ad blocking
Like I said in my earlier post, I used a Fluke OptiView to find the protocols in use and what machines were having “conversations” over those protocols. Unfortunately, my budget won’t allow for the $25K to purchase my own so… Read More »Troubleshooting internet usage p2:How I used Ethereal to troubleshoot our network utilization