Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

Carlos Aquino was kind enough to begin hosting a copy of my weekly Patch Day Review on Only4Gurus.com. I'm currently working out the details on how I want to move forward with it from here. My weekly PDR is targeted at “ungeeks” who don't have a clue about what “NetBIOS” or “RPC” is. but everyone else can read it too. The will be a little humorous, and sometimes sarcastic, cause serious things don't ALWAYS have to be taken so seriously. If it's boring, ungeeks won't read it. You'll see at a glance how severe it is, and I'll have a recommendation on what do do. Most of the time, the recommendation will be to install the patch. And laugh more often.

I just found out that one guy died and 11 people were injured when a locomotive separated from the cars on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disneyland. Both my twin sister and I were just there not 4 days ago. My twin worked there 2 summers ago, and said it might be the first death in the park where Disney is at fault.

I had a request from one of Scoble's loyal readers to post my reccommendation for a WiFi setup. I helped Scoble set up his when I was in Redmond last month, and from what he says, it seems to be working great.  So here it goes.

Richard Bornost pointed me to an entry in his blog where he talked about CSS. Plenty of reading for me over the weekend, when I bone up on CSS layouts so I can fix my Corporate Blog. It will be nice to be finished with this project I am working on so I can get paid and get back to my stuff. I've lost nearly two whole weeks of work. Man it's frustrating.

I posted another BOF topic as well. I'm not leading this one as much as I am coordinating some people who I want to lead the discussion. It's shaping up to be pretty cool... I'm hoping that as interest grows I'll be able to post a “Scheduled to Appear” list. Anyways, here it goes:

OK, I got a little flak for my old BOF topic. I was told it sounded too much like a marketing piece than a group discussion. So I had the wording changed. It now reads as follows:

Last night, I posted about the new version of TweakXP for Windows Server 2003. Well, my computer is running TONS faster. The biggest performance increase came from the “Enable Core System Performance” tweak, in conjunction with offloading my paging file to another disk. Another tweak that really increased startup performance was the “Speed up Network Access” tweak in the “Windows Tweaks II” section. Since I'm on a cable modem, startup would often take a long time while the network got its bearings and pulled an IP from the router. Now startup is nearly instantaneous after login.

I spent this morning customizing my skin for my Corporate Blog. I decided to rant this morning about Business Process Outsourcing, so I figured I might as well make my blog look like my corporate site. Overall, the templating experience in .Text is not bad. It was fun *sarcasm* trying to track down what CSS entry was affecting which section, and I am still having problems with my menu not going to 100% of the height, but oh well. I may move the site to a basic table format so it is easy to manage. CSS can be wholly unpredictable sometimes.