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Tag: Computers

  • Fixing an Old Website

    Lois and I have recently befriended an amazing Nashville-based Singer/Songwriter. Since I intend to write a long post about him in the coming weeks, I’ll leave his identity as a mystery for the moment, since it has little to do with the specifics of this post. The story of how we met him […]

  • Google Chrome First Impressions

    Before I begin, for the record, I love Firefox, and continue to use it as my primary browser. I also have IE7 and Safari installed (I’m running Windows XP Pro). Of course, I had to try Google Chrome, even though it wasn’t touted as being ready for Prime Time just yet. After some […]

  • PowerNotebooks Laptops Ordered

    I’ve written about my laptop a number of times. Separately, I’ve written about Windows XP, Vista, Linux and what I might choose when buying a new laptop. This morning, I ordered two identical laptops from PowerNotebooks.com, one for me and one for Lois. Here is the link to the specific model: PowerPro I […]

  • mp3tunes is a joke

    mp3tunes.com sounded like a good idea when I first heard of it. I found out about it a while ago, in a round-a-bout manner. I discovered a music streaming application, that could be widgetized on a blog, and they were promoting mp3tunes as a place to store your mp3’s so that you could […]

  • Vista SP1

    If you stop by here regularly, then you know I’ve railed about Windows Vista at least once. Aside from hearing tons of complaints from friends and strangers, I had the displeasure of using my previously mentioned computer ministry to set up a new Dell computer for my cul-de-sac neighbor’s mom last year. At […]

  • Reinstalling Windows XP

    I spend a fair amount of my time helping many people with their personal computers (mostly laptops, but desktops as well). A friend of ours noted that I had my own Computer Ministry a while ago. Lois liked the term and printed T-Shirts labeled Pastor Pedhazur, with the names of many in my […]

  • Recovering From a Server Disk Crash

    The machine that is delivering this blog to you is a standalone Dell server, running CentOS 5.2. It resides in a data center managed by Zope Corporation (ZC) Systems Administrators (SAs). I perform the majority of the software administration and maintenance myself, and they maintain all of the hardware along with some of […]

  • NginX Upgraded In Place

    NginX 0.7.2 is now available. I was running an ancient version, 0.7.1 (just kidding). 😉 So, I downloaded and built 0.7.2. Then I followed the instructions at the bottom of this page, which explain how to upgrade on the fly. It’s even cooler than just not losing any ongoing connections (which would be […]

  • WordPress Ate My Posting Date

    This post is really a test, but I’ll share the full problem and solution (assuming the test works), so it might help someone else out there as well. 🙂 The other day, for the first time ever, I noticed that a post of mine hit my RSS reader (Thunderbird) with a date of […]

  • Firefox 3.0 is Awesome

    Yesterday, I took a (cheap) shot at the Firefox launch fiasco. I didn’t need to do it, but I don’t really regret it either. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t want to hype the hell out of the launch, and then be unprepared for it. Anyway, even though the official launch […]