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PPC RSS Reader
I have a Dell Axim which I use for my tasks, contacts calendar, and as an MP3 Player. I've read a bit about various RSS Aggregators for the PPC on this feed ad a few others. What I need/want, though, is for the items I read on my PPC to be marked read...
Funny KB Articles
Found this on the MVP Newsgroups: http://jill.jazzkeyboard.com/qarticles.html . Somebody has compiled a large list of amusing KB Articles. A few good ones: Q72540: Calculator Does Not Reliably Subtract Two Numbers in Windows Q323927: How to Resurrect...
briandesmond.com
Well, www.BrianDesmond.com is going to be down until at least Monday. The machine I use to serve it up decided not to power up after a reboot this morning. It took a little while with Dell to reach an agreement that machine would in fact not power up...
OT: Verisin fixed DNS
Five telephone calls, seven customer service reps, and two months later, I have finally gotten the DNS servers for wpcp.org changed. My advice: Don't use Network Solutions/Verisin. They're expensive, corrupt, and have horrible service. GoDaddy has treated...
Device Drivers 201
One thing I hear rather often is that “I can't install X because it won't run on 2003”. If you're talking about most simple sorts of devices (i.e. mice, scanners, keyboards, gaming peripherals, etc), chances are you're just being fooled by...
Intellitype 5
Roy Osherove wonders how to get his non-wireless MS keyboard working. Microsoft recently released a new version of IntelliType (their keyboard software), which works with Windows 2003. Goto http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/downloads...
Bluetooth & Windows 2003
So, everyone that installed 2003 on their desktop, and then tried to install their bluetooth mouse or keyboard from Microsoft found that Intellipoint 4.9 didn't install on 2003. Well, for the past few hours, I've been working on a solution to this. So...
My Versin Saga
I've been attempting to do something seemingly very simple at the control panel for one of my domains, wpcp.org over at netsol.com for several weeks now. Quite simply, I want to turn their BS web forwarding service up and flip my own DNS on in there....
New Content Source
Well, I've got a new source of content: Interesting problems people Google for, click through to my blog, and don't find anything. It seems I have a couple of long posts with lots of tech keywords (my rant on ms blaster, and my introductory post). It...
What would you buy?
As the subjects suggests, I'm looking for stuff to buy. Specifically, software and trinkets useful in an IT department supporting a mid-sized environment (1000 comps/1000 users mac & pc laptop & desktop). Anything goes, I'm more on the IT end...
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