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View all →March 9, 2007
Check your server DST settings using PERL
The new Daylight Saving Time is almost upon us. My company is losing money now on all of the IT updates that we have to do (but that is another story, in fact, I read today that some Economic Analysts now think that the change will not save energy/money because while people won't be using as much electricity in the…
Read more →March 2, 2007
TZedit, DST, and JVM – not happy together
Earlier I wrote about the change to the Daylight Saving Time and how it could cause lots of lost time and money for IT and Dev folks (potentially offsetting any savings through energy). Well, I now have first-hand experience of how things can go awry and end up costing. My company has a production environment that is running a combination…
Read more →February 21, 2007
Change to Daylight Saving Time – the new Y2K?
Daylight Saving Time is changing this year, due to some decisions made in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Beginning in 2007, Daylight Saving Time is one month and begins for most of the United States at: 2 a.m. on the Second Sunday in March to 2 a.m. on the First Sunday of November Daylight Saving is supposed to save…
Read more →February 11, 2007
First Post using Microsoft Word 2007 “Blogger†option
So it looks like Microsoft got with the times with Word 2007 and incorporated blogging in with their new offering. So, I'm testing out the posting first and then I will write some more details around this. Looks promising. More later! Here is an image:
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February 7, 2007
Windows Explorer Tip – “group by” helps with organization
There is a nice little toggle within Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer, I'm talking about the way that you can look at your files on your hard drive) that allows you to "group" the files based on whatever field you select. I found it helpful when you are looking for a type of file or to group by the modified…
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January 24, 2007
New WordPress release (version 2.1) and other stuff
Once again, it's been a while since I posted. I've been deep in "geek-dom" mainly related to Cell Phone. My wife's old Blackberry (7100t) died so I got a Blackberry 8700c off of eBay and she is now up and running on that! It's a great device actually. My biggest issues was a little trick that I forgot to do…
Read more →December 20, 2006
LogMeIn.com (Hamachi) Part 2
Since I already wrote about Hamachi, and I must say that I am really growing to like it, I figured that I should do a little write up of Hamachi's new parent company, LogMeIn.com. But first, a couple of new notes for Hamachi. I was able to finally access my Windows shared directories from a Mac. First you need to…
Read more →December 19, 2006
Software review a day (?)
It seems like recently, probably due to the holidays, that I have not been posting regularly. So last night, I made a decision (who knows if it will stick) to try to review one piece of "software" a day. I realize that it is ambitious, but I would rather make the attempt than have my blog turn stale. So, I'm…
Read more →December 8, 2006
Best Windows Screen Saver ever!
I came across this great screen saver for your Windows machines...but only install it if you are a bit of a geek, or you want to pull a prank on someone. Basically, this screen saver emulates a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD). When the screen saver starts, it looks like the infamous BSoD (actually pulling configurations from your system). This…
Read more →November 6, 2006
Way behind on my posts
Just been way to busy. Here are some highlights of things that I have done: Update my activeCollab site to the latest Release Candidate Fixed my wife's computer (issues with RAM upgrade and Windows XP) Helped a friend get reconnected on their wireless network Helped another friend get their Powerbook on their wireless network as well as got them off…
Read more →October 30, 2006
Microsoft Outlook 2003 and ZoneAlarm anti-spam plugin issues
I recently had some issues with my ZoneAlarm install and MS Outlook 2003 and the Anti-Spam plug-in. Whenever I launched Outlook, the ZoneAlarm plugin was not initializing despite efforts to enable (through ZA and through the COM add-in within Outlook). I found a solution that seems to have worked. Basically, you need to fully delete the COM add-in and then…
Read more →October 17, 2006
Windows Update Error 80245003 – Windows Update won’t run on Vista RC2
Updated on 06.25.07: I have added some more detailed steps based on feedback I received. See end of post for further details. I'm playing around with Windows Vista on a test box that I have. So far, it's looking like a fairly nice upgrade to XP. It doesn't feel like a complete overhaul (which, from my understanding, it somewhat is…
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