Archive for December, 2004
Saturday, December 11th, 2004
Disappointment
I swapped my mouse at home last night for a generic optical mouse. Everyone says they’re better, after all. My old mouse wasn’t horrible, but had seen better days and was of an all too common shape seemingly designed to hurt my hand and wrist. Anyway, the new mouse jumps around. No smooth, predictable scrolling [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Computers by Marshall
Wednesday, December 8th, 2004
It may be a barrier…
But it’s no firewall… Via Acidman
No Comments » - Posted in Humor,Security by Marshall
Wednesday, December 8th, 2004
PHP and MySQL Reading
Recently I have been looking through the SAMS book Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache, by Julie C. Meloni, and from what I have seen it is most excellent. Then again, books published by SAMS tend to be. I say “looking through” because, hey, who sits and reads a computer book cover to cover, in [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Geek Tips,Programming by Marshall
Saturday, December 4th, 2004
Not The Floppy!
Argh. NT4 doesn’t talk to hardware interrupts and can’t see drives via the BIOS the same way DOS and Win9x can. That Dell server with serial ATA RAID, even with a FAT16 partition ready, even installing from a directory on that partition, cannot handle the drive. I obtained a driver that had an ever so [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Business,Computers,Software by Marshall
Saturday, December 4th, 2004
Blogging Spaces
This is a good report on and review of Microsoft’s new MSN Spaces blogging feature for the masses. I can actually see there being a market, especially at a price of free, for an even easier to use blogging tool than anything else yet on the market. I also don’t see how Microsoft could have [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Blogging,Business by Marshall
Friday, December 3rd, 2004
NT and Serial ATA RAID
I have been told by a trusted source that if the SATA RAID drive has already been created through the RAID BIOS utilities, NT4 can be installed and will see that a drive is there to the limits of its size recognition. When NT has been installed on its own partition, then service-packed to death, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Computers by Marshall
Friday, December 3rd, 2004
I Can Still Hear You Saying You Would Never
Break the chain! I have to agree, down with chain letters. Sending them and, worse, believing them, always struck me as a very newbie computer user thing to do. The surprise is when non-newbies perpetuate them too. A couple of prime snippets from the list: I no longer eat prepackaged foods because the estrogens they [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Humor,User Tips by Marshall
Thursday, December 2nd, 2004
What I Hate About E-Mail Spam
I have always thought e-mail was one of the coolest things ever, since I first saw anything like it in the early eighties, and used it in the early nineties. Perhaps it’s a shyness thing, but what others might see as impersonal, I see as “someone wanted to communicate with me? Cool!” It helps, perhaps, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Marshall
Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
CERC SATA RAID and NT4
I started setting up a new Dell PowerEdge SC 1420 that has CERC 6 channel SATA RAID with three drives for an effective drive size just under 150 GB. Nice. But I have to install NT 4.0 until next year when a more complete upgrade of the whole network takes place. It appears that will [...]