Windows Screenshots
Dear people hear me and hear me now. Next person sends me a 9meg “screenshot” is getting signed up to the Ron Paul contributors list. PrtScn takes a screenshot of your entire display. Unless you hate […]
Category: Computer
Computer related posts – computer troubleshooting and tech support, software, programming and more…
Ubuntu 8.0.4 – Thinkpad T30 fail
So I’ve aquired an IBM Thinkpad model T30, Thought it would be the perfect machine to install, test and play with Ubuntu on. Oops!
Whiteboard
My whiteboard sometimes has some interesting mods.
Mac vs PC
Mac vs PC – updated for accuracy. Added Allow/deny box for realism. PC people can portray Mac people as wussies but keep in mind PC people have to ask their mommy’s permission to fire that big […]
Illegal File Name – Compact Flash card
When taking pictures my Nikon D90‘s display had flashed that the card needed to be formatted “frm”. I’ve seen this before and simply power off the camera, then reset the card and all is well. I […]
Apple Safari for Windows
I’ve been tired of the constant iTunes updates for some time. DRM updates, iPhone updates, more iPhone updates, Quicktime (iTime?), iWank, iShank, iSpank… 40megs, 60megs, 80megs, reboots… oh and actual updates for iTunes. So when I […]
The Vista
“The Vista” So I was talking to HR Block Tax Cut Business tech support (i.e. a nice lady with some docs to read from) because their product refuses to launch for me “you must have Internet […]
ITMU 3 – deploying patches with SMS 2003 SP3
Patch process using ITMU v3 and SMS 2003 I’m patching end user clients only (no servers) only and this process accommodates a business requirement to patch machines but not force a reboot for 4 days. Install patches […]
ColdFusion 8 Data Source with MS SQL Express 2005
After upgrading my development system from ColdFusion MX and MS SQL 2000 to ColdFusion 8 and MS SQL Express 2005 I was getting the dreaded SQLServer JDBC Driver errors. The fix is in the Adobe link […]
Community Server + SQL 2005 Express
As someone who benefits greatly from the myITforum community and the Blogs therein I was interested in the blogging software – Community Server Having recently setup a personal learning lab 2003 SP2 test server with DNS, […]