A big thanks for saving me a shit-ton of time goes out to Emil Haukeland and his post about configuring lighttpd for wordpress. Lighttpd is a very lightweight open-source web server emphasizing high-performance with low system resources. I had been using the industry standard apache web server, but I was interested in fine-tuning my host-box [...]

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Get over yourself. Seriously. Just because my silly FREE PHONE from T-mobile rings while you are watching a movie on your iPhone does not give you the right to turn around and give me the BET-YOUR-PHONE-CAN’T-DO-THIS dirty look. F off.

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I’ve worked with Vista enough to agree completely with this video. You won’t find it on any of _MY_ machines…

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Ever wanted to put together a VMware virtual machine host without using windows, but were too intimidated? If you�re like me, you like the idea of using a low overhead OS on your host boxes to maximize the resources available for your virtual machines. Unfortunately, up until now any *nix system install had a bit [...]

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While researching something at work this afternoon with the Google, I happened to pull of a list of my recent searches and was quite amused. The technical searches aren’t that odd to me, but “bg’s reunite”, “haters”, all the food searches, and “vermont ‘red state’” look funny to me in that list. Oh and trogdor. [...]

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I had to deal with an issue yesterday of how to get a very computer illiterate person in my workplace setup to be able to FTP files to another company who is doing work for us. While I would not normally recommend anyone to use the built-in FTP functionality of Internet Explorer, at the time [...]

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Over the past 2 weeks or so since the official long awaited (read: massively delayed) launch of Microsoft’s new flagship OS, Windows Vista, I’ve noticed an influx of questions at work regarding the “should I upgrade” question. To save time & effort here is the short answer: don’t do it. The only “wow” that “starts [...]

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AT&T just bought Cingular? Wasn’t Cingular was already owned by AT&T? Bellsouth owns who now?! Let Stephen Colbert help you sort this out! Isn’t capitalism fun??

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Occasionally I come across something tech related that I’m working on which is hard to find documented, so I document it here for myself & for google to index to possibly help others… I wrote a simple web page hit counter for my website years ago using php & mysql. This worked fine until last [...]

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I had to reload my machine this past weekend. I was very proud of the fact that it was going on 2.5 years and Windows XP SP2 was still as solid as a rock. You can imagine my disappointment Sunday morning when I discovered my machine hopelessly infected with some kind of combination popupware/virus. Being [...]

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