Bob’s Way – The War
Bob’s Way — 4) The War I’d learned how the war started from a magazine. Way back in the dark ages of computers, a shadowy figure walked off with a paper tape during a computer demonstration. […]
Category: Computer
Computer related posts – computer troubleshooting and tech support, software, programming and more…
Windows Movie Maker 2.6 – Windows 7
Stumped by limitations of Windows Movie Maker Live I went in search of an alternate free video editing program. Lo and behold I found an old friend. Microsoft had stopped development of Windows Movie Maker after Windows Vista so I hadn’t used it […]
USB Windows 7 install
Use a USB Key to Install Windows 7 – Even on a Netbook. From Microsoft Technet – “Putting the Windows 7 installation on a USB thumb drive has a few advantages—a small USB key is much […]
Hard drive teardown
YouTube – Hard drive teardown.
Lessons From a Cloud Failure
Lessons From a Cloud Failure: It’s Not Amazon, It’s You | Webmonkey | Wired.com. “Amazon’s cloud-hosted Web Services experienced a catastrophic failure last week, knocking hundreds of sites off the web. Some developers saw the AWS outage […]
The Usability of Passwords
The Usability of Passwords (by @baekdal) #tips. “Security companies and IT people constantly tells us that we should use complex and difficult passwords. This is bad advice, because you can actually make usable, easy to remember […]
Dear Microsoft – SkyDrive, Sync, Mesh… Seriously?
Updated 5/5/12 – Looks like Microsoft read my post ;-) and they’ve released a quite nice looking simple and clean SkyDrive version! http://www.gfisk.com/skydrive-finally/ About five years behind everyone else I finally checked out online storage options. […]
Kindle
Free Kindle eBooks from Amazon Currently 16,528 Public Domain Kindle eBook titles available for free from Amazon.com Free Kindle eBooks from Amazon 791,099 Kindle eBooks sorted by price, starting with $0.00 All Kindle eBooks sorted by […]
ColdFusion redirect – cflocation
I had to change the domain of a longstanding ColdFusion site with hundreds of pages. With .htaccess on an Apache Linux host this is easy and well documented. With ColdFusion on IIS when you are not […]
Gallery 3 – Online photo organizer
Gallery 3 is an excellent Open Source photo management and organizing tool. If you like to manage your photos on your website then G3 may be for you. Check out my Photo Gallery for an example! About […]