Archive: Technology
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Apr 27, 2010
No CommentsPGP Public Key
Security is essential. There are a lot of software applications out there to help ensure that security when communicating electronically. For Windows users, you’ll want to look for either GNG4Win or the commercial PGP Desktop. For Mac users there’s MacGPG. If you want to communicate with me without worrying about who may or may not...
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Dec 19, 2009
2 CommentsOptimizing Windows Media Center
Many years ago, oddly enough around the time that my daughter started getting interested in kid’s DVDs and i had to replace the Monsters, Inc. DVD about four times I finally decided to rip all my DVDs to a computer with a large hard drive and hook that up to my TV to play the...
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Sep 09, 2009
No CommentsVista OEM vs. Vista Retail
This will be a quick post, but I just wanted to put it out there. I recently was working on reformatting an old computer for a co-worker, but their computer manufacturer (HP) didn’t include a restore disk with their brand new computer! Luckily, it had a license on the side so I thought I’d try...
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May 23, 2009
No CommentsWindows 7 RC1 Upgrade
I just went through the upgrade process on the two computers that I have running W7 at home. One being my media PC in my bedroom and one being my media server. It worked perfectly! The first step was to manually edit a file to be able to do the update. Before you go blasting...
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Feb 17, 2009
No CommentsFresh Fruit
Isn’t it funny how Microsoft gets ripped left and right for their “Genuine Advantage” tool, and yet you never hear anything from Apple lovers about their attempt to lock the iPhone. Granted, I don’t like WGA anymore than the next person…I’ve had it lock me out of a computer simply for swapping out an internal...