Category: Technology

Installing Windows Home Server onto a drive smaller than 160Gb

Last updated on May 14th, 2020 at 12:59 pmI 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…

Limiting spam comments on posts or images (wordpress attachments)

Last updated on June 25th, 2014 at 01:47 pmSpammers 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…

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

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…

Any support technician has calls like this …

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?

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?

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…

Rapid-Deployment Website Development

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…