One charger to charge them all.
DaleI love the Apple iPod charger. Apple call it the iPod charger, but this is the same charger you get with the iPhone. It supplies 5 volts @ 1 Amp. …
My Corporate DNS Server was lying to me, often.
I was trying to copy some files to a group to a computers. What I’d do is check if the computer is alive first, by doing a network ping. If…
"Look here, you’ve often called on me before"
Captain Dennis! A word in your ear! Why soldiers generally refrain From taking Jesus name in vain One day you'll need to call him in the clamour of a war…
Semi-regular web-link clearance – September 2010
Automatically increasing the system font size in Windows 7 … That year, the top-of-the-range machines we were giving out to these undeserving gits weren’t coming with 1024×768 screens any more;…
Birthday Drink
Today’s lesson is: Don’t select a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon based on the fact there is a rail spike on the label; and that you’re fond on all things railway.…
So I rode a recumbent trike and
liked it. Things I like: no back pain. easy to ride. you stop at a set of lights, and that’s all. You don’t need to place your feet on…
File Shredder – well, fails.
I had big hopes for File Shredder. It installed cleanly, and when erasing, it looked nice. But the test of any file erasing product is, does it erase files as…
Another downside of upgrading a Windows 2000 to Windows XP
Each Microsoft operating system installation allows you to do an “in-place” upgrade. aka, The “Do you wish to upgrade this computer to Windows xyz” prompt when you insert a Microsoft…
Another day, another theme change
You might have noticed that I briefly switched to the Atahualpa theme. I did this because the upgrade to the Swift theme broke how fonts looks (they got a lot…
What my 3-2-1 backup looks like.
There are people who do backups, and there are those who have not lost data yet. I use the 3-2-1 Backup strategy, which is: 3 copies of anything I want…