Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Just bought a DLink DNS-323

So NCIX was having another one of their sales again.  This time the deals were pretty good.

July 30th, 2008 | Posted in Technology, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Switching to VMWare Server

I’ve mentioned before that this site is running in a VirtualPC environment.

 

 

VPC_W2K3

I’ve decided to switch to VMWare Server.  I’ll be bringing the server down so I can import my Virtual PC image into VMWare.
UPDATE: VMWare Server’s import tool failed to import my Virtual PC .vmc file.  Luckily they have a separate converter tool available [...]

July 25th, 2008 | Posted in Technology | 1 Comment

Rogers hijacking failed DNS lookups

If you are a Rogers Internet subscriber and you try to reach a non-existent URL (e.g. http://asdfzxcv.google.com), you will be redirected to a Rogers search page displaying ads.

July 21st, 2008 | Posted in Technology | No Comments

Virtual PC 2007 Blue Screen of Death

I logged in to my Virtual PC 2007 running Windows Server 2003 and pressed ALT+Enter to go in to full-screen mode and suddenly, I see this:

 

 

W2K3 on Virtual PC 2007 BSOD

I reset the Virtual PC, captured a printscreen then proceeded to try to upload my photo to my gallery. I didn’t realize my [...]

April 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Technology | No Comments

Excel’s DateDif function

Anna was doing some work tonight in one of her spreadsheets and needed a bit of help. One of the things she was doing was calculating the number of months between 2 dates. There isn’t really an easy way to do this in Excel without resorting to using its VBA macro language. [...]

March 28th, 2008 | Posted in Technology | 2 Comments

Hard drive issues

I was installing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 after having downloaded it from the MSDN downloads site.  During one of the reboots, my machine sat on the bootup screen.  This is what I saw:

 

 

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My machine came with a 250GB hard drive and an optical drive.  I added a second 200GB hard drive so I [...]

March 5th, 2008 | Posted in Technology | No Comments

Upgrade to WordPress 2.3.3

I just upgraded to the latest version of WordPress.  WooHoo!  Upgrade was a breeze.  Deactivate plug-ins, backup, copy files, reactivate plug-ins, done.
Now I just gotta see if my email notification still works.  I don’t remember where I set all the SMTP stuff.

February 7th, 2008 | Posted in Technology | No Comments

TinyMCE Advanced for WordPress

WordPress comes with a stripped down version of the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor. It looks a bit boring:

 

 

original_wordpress_editor

So I decided to spruce it up a bit and download a plug-in that upgrades the text editor. I chose TinyMCE Advanced by Andrew Ozz and now it looks like this:

 

 

tinymce_advanced_wordpress_editor

Installation couldn’t be easier. [...]

February 1st, 2008 | Posted in Technology | No Comments