After attending The Ajax Experience (many more posting coming on this event), I was excited to start making use of Prototype to increase my productivity while coding various Javascript routines and Ajax apps. If you haven’t seen, or downloaded it yet, you can find Prototype Framework for Javascript at: http://www.prototypejs.org/ Probably the biggest time saver…
If you are using Outlook 2003, or possibly Outlook 2007, and are getting a message about your Personal Folder (.pst file) being full, you can fix it using the details below: If you have upgraded from a version Office before 2003, the PST files that are being created are in a Office97-2002 format, and those…
This weekend, I was asked to look at a system that wouldn’t allow the owner to use a USB External Harddrive (Maxtor Personal Storage 3200, 160GB). It was correctly seen by the machine and available in device manager, and the disk management utilities. However, it wasn’t assigned a drive letter by default, and attempts to…
I was updating some Nagios configuration by hand editing various configuration files. This “pain” reminded me to check and see if there were any updates to Nagios, and of course there was a few updates (2.4 -> 2.9) since the last time I updated it. I grabbed the latest Nagios and the latest plugins to…
If you install Microsoft Virtual Server on a “server” machine and after starting a virtual host on the machine you lose all network connectivity to the “host” machine you should read the following: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888750 It indicates that VS2005R2 has an issue with TCP segmentation offloading or other “offloading” to the NIC … so you have…
Mezer Tools by Bayden Systems is a great utility for web developers. It provides you with an easy way to get exact screenshots as well as measuring with screen-calipers, color-grabbing, hex conversions, and generating psuedo-random text. It sits in the systray and provides the functionality that you commonly find in seperate tools/utilities. Check it out…
After putting off the upgrade as long as possible, I finally broke down and purchased the upgrade from v3.x. I was immediately impressed with the dual-monitor support, x64 OS support, and the transparent windows abilities. This product is great example of remote-administration/support software that allows an admin to install the daemon and start it remotely…
From the Synergy website: “Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).” I use my laptop as the “server” and then…
Dell is recalling a large number of laptop batteries (primarily for the D-series laptops), but to the potential for overheating and fire. Article at CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/14/technology/dell.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes Website at Dell for getting checking/ordering replacement batteries: http://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/