Random Tech Tips, Photography, Music, Words
Random Tech Tips, Photography, Music, Words
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“An ideologically diverse group of 90 law professors has signed a letter opposing the PROTECT IP Act, the Hollywood-backed copyright enforcement/Internet blacklist legislation now working its way through Congress. The letter argues that its domain-blocking provisions […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 (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 […]
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. […]
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 […]