Converting to Mac

Posted and filed under Hardware, Software, technology.

About two weeks ago I decided that I was just completely done with my Dell Latitude D630. I’ve had it for just under a year now and it had continued to disappoint me at every turn. I had had an Inspiron 8600 — which was a pretty darn good laptop — for about a year… Read more »

Dell Laptop Hard Drive Failure

Posted and filed under Hardware.

Last week my wife called me to say that her laptop — my old Dell Latitude D610 — wouldn’t boot. Of course her whole life is on this machine and she had a paper due that evening and, no, she didn’t have any backups. So I left the office around 3pm to try to save… Read more »

Delete Empty Folders

Posted and filed under Programming, Software.

Looking for a way to clear some of your computer’s clutter? Getting rid of empty directories is a good start. I was looking for a file and realized that my machine was spending a long time searching through folders that I knew had nothing in them. A quick Google search returned a handy DOS trick… Read more »

Wasted Space

Posted and filed under rants, Software.

Can anyone tell me if I really need Java 2 Runtime Environment, SE v1.4.2_03 and J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 3? These things are ridiculous. Each one is over 100MB! What a waste.

Hewlett-Packard Printers: Tools of Satan

Posted and filed under rants, technology.

For Christmas ’04 I got my girlfriend a shiny new HP Photosmart 7960. She loves it. It prints fabulous, high-quality images and it comes with some great photo-printing software. Sure you have to mortgage your house to keep the ink flowing, but you knew that was going to be the case when you bought the… Read more »

IIS Auto Restart

Posted and filed under Programming.

Does anybody know of any way to have IIS automatically restart itself every few hours? Do tell.

Title Tags Missing

Posted and filed under Software.

Here’s an interesting development: For some reason my browser is no longer displaying title tags for anchors! I have no idea how this happened. Has anyone else noticed this? Title tags for hrefs do not appear regardless of the site I am viewing. This is very strange.

IIS Tips

Posted and filed under Software.

Ten things to do with IIS

Win2K

Posted and filed under Software, technology.

Hey! I didn’t know you could have Desktop Themes in Windows 2000! That’s way cool. ActiveWin shows you how to do this and a ton more. There’s even a section of my favorite things: registry hacks! w00t! link via Lockergnome

Win2K

Posted and filed under Software, technology.

Download tools and utilities that help you manage and support Windows 2000! Y’know. If you wanna. No pressure or anything.