Category Archives: General

I’ve been upgrading my system and finally caused Windows XP to ask me to activate Windows again! I installed 512 MB of additional RAM to bring the total to 1 GB of RAM. Then I replaced the 6.5 GB D … Continue reading →

I used Drive Copy 4.0 to copy the Dell’s 20 GB drive to a 40 GB drive and then installed the 20 GB drive as the secondary IDE drive. This gives me 60 GB of total disk space on my … Continue reading →

I got an invite to MSN Soapbox and I have uploaded 10 of my best videos. Soapbox is Microsoft’s attempt to clone YouTube. I don’t like the video buffering which appears right in the middle of the video image. Also … Continue reading →

I have successfully installed phpBB 2.0.21 on the Car Accessories web site. It can be found at: http://www.caraccessories.com/forum/index.php. I also documented the steps involved: Copy phpBB2 directory to web site root or target directory Create MySQL database phpbb Create database … Continue reading →

I have finally finished reading Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies by Keith Underdahl. I learned how to use the color correction effects which are very useful for improving the image quality of the footage I record using my Sony Handycam … Continue reading →

I spent most of this morning dealing with the YouTube web site which does a poor job communicating with its users. They don’t send out weekly or monthly newsletters. Their blog does not have a RSS feed. They do not … Continue reading →

I was very busy yesterday and worked from 9 AM to 5 AM the next day. I put my computer to work running a Web Position Gold ranking report and then went out to do some errands. I withdrew some … Continue reading →

I am making some progress with my multimedia production plans. I have discovered that I can make my recorded voice sound better by lowing the pitch by two semitones. Apparently this is a common problem because there are various VST … Continue reading →

A new version of the Firefox browser is now available. Firefox 2.0 has a close button on each tab making it less likely that you will accidentally close the wrong tab. The search box displays a drop down list of … Continue reading →

Internet Explorer 7 is now available for Windows XP. I have switched from Windows 2000 Professional to Windows XP so I am using Internet Explorer 7 now. I have not noticed too many problems yet except for Macromedia Flash. I … Continue reading →

Today I received the 1 GB of RAM I purchased for my new DELL OptiPlex GX240. That gives it more memory than any other system I own. I used one of its 128 MB sticks of SDRAM in my old … Continue reading →

On Saturday I spent a lot of time experimenting and learning Cubase LE and Adobe Premiere Pro. With Cubase I concentrated on using the equalisers to adjust the sound of my recorded voice. I was able to get a slightly … Continue reading →

Now that I’ve moved to Windows XP, I’m trying to use SQL Server 2005 rather than install SQL Server 2000. Unfortunately SQL Server 2005 makes some things more difficult. For example, exporting a SQL Server database to Access 2003 can … Continue reading →

On Thursday I developed a web service to get the New York Lotto numbers. My web service is getting the numbers from a RSS feed because it is easier to parse XML than it is to find data in HTML … Continue reading →

Yesterday I got the DELL Optiplex GX240 computer that I bought on eBay. This will replace my old computer which I use as a spare computer. When my good computer crashed I discovered that my old computer was too obsolete … Continue reading →

My system crashed a few times with my USB thumb drive connected. The USB thumb drive was corrupted and now Windows XP and Windows 2000 insist the drive is write protected. I cannot copy any files to the USB thumb … Continue reading →

I got my computer to boot up on Monday. It turns out the power switch cable became dislodged when I replaced the IDE cable. So whenever I pressed in the power switch the signal did not reach the motherboard. Boy … Continue reading →

I got a new hard drive delivered by UPS today. Car Accessories.com ordered it for me. http://www.caraccessories.com It is a 250 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM EIDE hard drive. I copied my Windows XP operating system onto this new drive … Continue reading →

I am in the process of recovering from yesterday’s hard drive disaster. It is very upsetting to have another hard drive go bad when this already happened in July. I recovered most of my data and all client data. Today … Continue reading →

Unfortunately, the hard drive on my computer is going bad again. My computer froze shortly after I booted up this morning. When I rebooted I heard noises coming from the drive and got the blue screen of death. Fortunately, the … Continue reading →