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Installing Windows Home Server onto a drive smaller than 160Gb

May 31, 2012

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I was about to give up installing Windows Home Server 2011 onto an SSD – but eventually found this article… THANK YOU – it was surprisingly easy to get past this hard-coded idiot limit when I found this article… http://connecteddigitalworld.com/2011/09/20/installing-whs-2011-or-sbs-2011-essentials-on-ssd-or-sata-hard-drives-smaller-than-160gb Installing WHS 2011 on SSD or SATA Hard Drives smaller than 160GB September 20,…

Limiting spam comments on posts or images (wordpress attachments)

Mar 21, 2012

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A Social Animal

in Other, Technology

Spammers seem to have found a way of sending spam comments to your wordpress images – and there doesn’t appear (as yet) to be a way to default the options on attachments to “No Comments” or “No Pings”. so – I wrote a quick and easy script to drop into the root folder of your…

WordPress 3.0.2 fixes some security issues among other things – apply it today…

Dec 4, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Other, Social Media, Technology

WordPress released the latest version of their content management system – 3.0.2 – and as usual, we recommend that you take the time to upgrade. Here is a link to the WordPress 3.0.2 release notes. This was a fairly minor maintenance release and each site we upgraded had ZERO issues – but as usual, we…

Any support technician has calls like this …

Jun 15, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Technology

Remember the Google pacman game? This guy will – he’ll dine out on this story for years to come…

When is an update to be considered a downgrade?

Jun 9, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Technology

Not every “update” you receive should be considered an “upgrade” – because it’s sometimes the case that a “downgrade” will occur… eek!

Twitter hacked: Security – are they serious?

May 10, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Social Media, Technology, The Future, Twitter

twitter today confirmed a bug which allowed a user to “force” another user to follow them… you what?!? So in the world of social media, where a user’s behavior can be socially engineered, it turns out there is a way to turn them into following zombies? No-way! Get outta-here… sounds about as secure as an…

Rapid-Deployment Website Development

May 10, 2010

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A Social Animal

in Social Media, Technology, The Future, The Past, The Present

I’ve been building websites since the mid-90’s – back when deploying a website meant learning HTML – writing the page in a TEXT EDITOR (WYSIWYG editors for websites didn’t exist really) – and then linking the pages manually, then using an FTP program to upload the pages manually. My first website was actually traded for…

Category: Technology

Installing Windows Home Server onto a drive smaller than 160Gb

Limiting spam comments on posts or images (wordpress attachments)

WordPress 3.0.2 fixes some security issues among other things – apply it today…

Any support technician has calls like this …

When is an update to be considered a downgrade?

Twitter hacked: Security – are they serious?

Rapid-Deployment Website Development