Category Archives: General

I bought a Sony DCR-TRV280 Digital8 Handycam Camcorder w/20x Optical Zoom on Amazon. I should have read the product description more carefully because this camcorder uses 8mm tapes rather than any form of digital media like memory sticks or compact … Continue reading →

Today I got a cheap web cam. I was unable to get it to work on my Windows 2000 system however it did work on my Windows 98 system. The only reason to keep a Windows 98 system anymore is … Continue reading →

I bought a new hard drive on Amazon which arrived today. This drive is 100 GB. I used PowerQuest’s Drive Copy 4.0 to transfer my operating system and data to this new hard drive. Hopefully it will not go bad … Continue reading →

After my hard drive went bad, I’ve realized that my home office needs a better data back up plan. First, I’ve ordered a bigger hard drive on Amazon. This will be a brand new drive and not a refurbished drive. … Continue reading →

I am currently reading another book on ASP.NET, Microsoft ASP.NET Step by Step by G. Andrew Duthie, published by Microsoft Press. I’m up to chapter 7 on configuring an ASP.NET application (using the web.config file). Although I already know ASP.NET … Continue reading →

I don’t want to give the impression that my home office is inadequate after my hard drive went bad. I plan to invest in more computer equipment to save my work. I did buy a battery backup system (i.e. UPS) … Continue reading →

Last night I ran PerfectDisk 7.0 and it did a pretty good job of defragging my hard drive. It got half of it defragged which is much better than Windows 2000’s built-in Disk Defragmenter could have done.

My old hard drive needs defragging. Look at all the red in the defrag analysis below: I’ve ordered a 100 GB hard drive on Amazon but I don’t want to copy over all these fragmented files. I downloaded PerfectDisk 7.0 … Continue reading →

My 80 GB hard drive went bad on me today. I have lost some of my email, data, and work from 6/17 thru 7/13. Fortunately I never put Linux on my old 40 GB hard drive like I intended to … Continue reading →

Working in the Information Technology field really develops your problem solving skills and requires you to think logically. One of the most important steps in quickly solving a problem is to test your assumptions. Technical errors are sometimes quite cryptic. … Continue reading →

I’ve been having a lot of problems with my Verizon DSL line. I keep losing my Internet connection. Today I moved all of my computer equipment into another room to be closer to the phone jack and to use a … Continue reading →

Today I upgraded my hard drive from 40 GB to 80 GB. I used PowerQuest’s Drive Copy 4.0 to transfer the operating system and data from my old hard drive to my new hard drive. I made the new hard … Continue reading →

I have a small project involving converting web addresses like category.aspx?id=6 into more search engine friendly web addresses like category6.aspx or even better sports_memorabilia.aspx. Search engines don’t like dynamic web pages with their lengthy query string values and would prefer … Continue reading →

I have made an important improvement to my C# script that parses an entire web application for significant code. I have added the ability to parse subdirectories using a recursive function. This was necessary because not all web applications keep … Continue reading →

I’ve gathered all the local news feeds I can find into my BlogLines account. BlogLines lets you see how many subscribers a feed has and for many local news feeds like the Williamsport Sun Gazette, I am the only subscriber. … Continue reading →

I have written some code to secure the database administration scripts I use to manage my books database. Now my simple web application has a log in page and you cannot access any other pages without a valid log in. … Continue reading →

Today I came across something I never heard of before, the Microsoft Universal Data Link (UDL) file type. It is used for database connections. I tried to look it up on Wikipedia but they did not have a page on … Continue reading →

Tonight I installed two more web applications on my Mandrake 8.2 Linux server. These web applications finally give me a reason to use my Linux system. And I am gaining experience in installing the types of web applications that are … Continue reading →

Last night I installed Dot Net Nuke 4.0.2 on my system. It gave me almost as much trouble as a Linux web application install. The two aspects I found tricky were renaming the release.config file to web.config and then updating … Continue reading →

Tonight I finished reading Blogging For Dummies by Brad Hill. Amazon recently added it’s very own version of the blog called the plog which allows writers to have a blog on Amazon targeted to their readers. If you have bought … Continue reading →