I had ordered another ThinkPad and a Dell Latitude when I was getting impatient waiting for my Z61t to ship, just to see what the ship dates would be. When I called Dell first, I got stuck in their automated answering system. It took me to the automated order status checker. So I hung up…Continue Reading…
I just received my ThinkPad Z61t and I’m typing on it right now. It’s really sweet. I’ve had only three hiccups so far: First thing I noticed was that the system is lacking a Windows Vista Capable sticker. I was assured before purchase that the laptop would “definitely” be Vista Capable, and would be eligible…Continue Reading…
My dad was trying to install Adobe Acrobat 7.0 when he got an error saying that he didn’t have sufficient privileges to create C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Adobe PDF, and that he should log into an Administrator account or contact the system administrator. Needless to say, he is the administrator and he was on the administrator…Continue Reading…
I just upgraded Google Community vBulletin. I thought they had better ways to fight spam, but not so: they use image verification, no matter how complex it is. The more weird-looking the images get, the harder it is for real humans to read them. Sometimes, computers can even read images (using OCR) better than humans…Continue Reading…
What’s the best way to move a website to a new server? Here’s the method I used, requiring SSH on both servers (which I have). Host A old one with files. Host B new one. Log into A via SSH and create archive with all your data. Code: tar -cf myfiles.tar directory_name_with_your_files (ex. public_html) gzip…Continue Reading…