I have been having issues with my keyboard for as long as I can remember. The Shift, Control, Windows, and Alt keys were not functioning properly at all and were becoming quite the annoyance. It seemed as if while held down, the keys were randomly toggling themselves on and off while I pressed [...]
I was setting up some Ubuntu virtual machines for folding when I decided that I wanted to monitor them all via a single interface in Windows using FahMon. I also wanted to be able to alter the folder where the folding client resides in case I ever have to do a little maintenance. [...]
I recently tried installing Ubuntu x64 in VMware on my 32-bit Windows machine. I have done this in the past for other 64-bit operating systems, however not on this particular workstation, which is an HP xw4600. The process is typically very straightforward since VMWare has a “Easy Install” process for known operating systems.
This [...]
If you have not been by the site recently, I have updated a few my applications this week, and I have added a pair of new apps as well.
The newcomers include AudioX and RAIDFix.
AudioX is a labor of love several years in the works. A process born in batch files, migrated to Perl, and [...]
Bypass this article and fix your Intel RAID Drivers immediately using RAIDFix
I have three pieces of information to share with those of you looking to enable RAID on your Windows PC after having installed Windows without RAID enabled in your BIOS settings. Now that you have rebooted past a handful of blue screens and [...]
Awhile back, I posted a guide detailing how you can configure CopSSH on your home computer and use it to securely route your Windows Remote Desktop traffic in order to add an extra layer of security to the whole process.
Typically, once Putty was configured and used to create the SSH tunnel to the remote machine, [...]
Suction version 1.1.3 fixes a few bugs hanging around in the 1.1.1 release. With the help of Gary M. who reported these bugs and tested fixes, I was able to knock out a few annoying issues.
The 1.1.3 release includes:
Fix for the auto-exit bug that would cause the application to remain open when initiated from the [...]
Is there such a thing as too many threads? Of course there is. Well, for the time being, that is.
I am currently putting together an audio conversion application, and I was doing some testing to see what number of concurrent conversions produced the best results in respect to time. Conventional wisdom says that “bigger/more is [...]
A friend of mine was recently having issues using Microsoft’s Terminal Services Remote Web Access. It seems that when he tried to remotely administer any workstations he had upgraded to Windows XP SP3 or servers he had upgraded to SBS 2003 SP1, he would receive an error stating that an “Invalid Server Name” had been [...]
Over the past few days, I have made some changes to MailBin that fix some lingering bugs as well as enhance performance. Make sure to check the MailBin page frequently for program updates!
