My wife would tend to agree with that statement, but, she is a mutant as well. Hell, even our wee lass is one as well. Science Daily reports that "Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor". Scientists are doing amazing things with our DNA.
I’ve been looking for an easy way to backup my VMware images since putting 3 Virtual Machines (VM’s) into production. After having my SharePoint site crash a few months ago I redoubled my efforts to find such a solution. Since I use the free VMware Server I would have to either find a script online or roll my own script. This week I had some success finding numerous scripts. After testing many of these scripts and finding none that worked the way I wanted them to, I decided to take the ideas I learned from these scripts and started writing my own.
While poking around Word 2007 today I realized that I could be posting from Word instead of the WYSIWYG/html Wordpress editor. What you see here is the 1st post from Word to Wordpress on my site.
Setting up the connection info is a snap. You just have to enter in the URL of your site, the info of the user you want to post as and you are on your way.
I’m not sure if I will continue using Word 2007 to post as some of the advanced options for images and post layout are a bit finicky, but it is a great way for average users to use an application they are comfortable with to post to their blogs.
I was checking my Wordpress.com blog stats this morning and noticed that I had a new incoming link to my site. I was curious to see who and what this back-link was about. It turned out to be some guy using an image I have posted in my Diskeeper review. I have been meaning to add hot-linking protection to the site, and after a quick Google search to find a good script to add to a .htaccess file I was on my way to accomplishing my task.
Yesterday was a nightmare. Nothing worked as it should. Nothing. Not one thing. Then to top things off I received my call back from tech support for my SSL VPN connection issue. I could connect the SSL VPN without a problem, I just couldn’t connect using VNC to an internal PC that I needed to get access to an outside contractor. The tech went over my SSL VPN settings and made one minor change to the order of my firewall rules. He made himself a user name to test the SSL VPN connection, and he attempted to connect the my site. He said couldn’t connect and said there was nothing he could do. I stated that I could connect and that my vendor could connect to the SSL VPN. I also said he could walk me through testing a few things on my end. To which he said something about being a break-fix tech and not actual tech support, where you know, you help customers with their issues so they don’t call back on the same issue. This guy said that since he was unable to connect to the SSL VPN he couldn’t do anything for me. SNAP! (more…)
It has been a long time since I've been able to get myself together to post something of worth here. Life has been very busy, yet at the same time nothing much of note has happened, tech wise at least. The baby continues to grow inside mommy, the babies room has been finished and a major overhaul to the basement and driveway has taken place. So you can see why I have had little time for a tech blog. (more…)
As a sys admin, the bane of my existence are printers. In fact I think I could make a list on how I hate them so, but that is for another time. Back to the story. In the past month I have had to take out my machete, enter the deep dark jungle of the registry and hack out all reference to printers and printer servers , twice. (more…)
PC World has recently updated their top anti-spyware applications. PC Tools PC Doctor 5.0 comes out on top with a very impressive 95 rating. PC Doctor 5.0 will set you back $30 but a starter version is available from Google in the Google Pack. I've tried the starter version of PC Doctor and found it easy to use but no different than the other anti-spyware free-ware options.
Lets face it, most people today have an email address and many have more than one. Between work, home, your ISP and that old Hotmail or Yahoo account you got when you were 13, email addresses pile up quickly. You could setup Outlook Express (please never do this) or Mozilla Thunderbird (please use this if you have to use a desktop email client) and connect to all your accounts. But what happens when you are away from home or when your hard drive imploads? This is where Gmail comes to the rescue.
Diskeeper has a new version of its workstation class defragmentation application called Pro Premier. This version is targeted to high end PCs and power users and adds to its suite of products which include Diskeeper Home & Diskeeper Pro. The main difference I see between the Home/Pro and Premier version is the increased disk size that you able to support in Premier. You can defragment disk sizes up to 2TB compared to only 768GB in Home/Pro.
