By now I’m sure just about everyone who reads the news have come across the suite brought against Jeffrey Howell for illegally sharing copyrighted music over the Kazaa peer-to-peer network. And if you have been following this story then you probably also know the uproar caused by that RIAA lawyer that’s handling this suite saying [...] Read more »

Continue reading about Ripping CDs for personal use Illegal? I don’t think so.

Kirk M on October 23rd, 2007

I’m not one for a lot of video’s but while looking for a video of today’s Discovery launch I found a bunch of video’s about UFO’s. Although I do sincerely believe that we have regular visitors to our little planet by beings other than ourselves (probably checking to see if we’re behaving properly) I have [...] Read more »

Continue reading about And as a side note-How’s this for a UFO?

One of the things that has been percolating in the back of my mind of late is the question "What’s going to happen my poor XP PRO OS in 8 months when all support for this version of XP is dropped? I happen to be one of those old(er) computer techs who has no problem [...] Read more »

Continue reading about Vista-Irate Mother and XP SP3-My personal concerns about XP’s fate.

When Microsoft first came out with Windows Live OneCare version 1 and being the old beta tester that I am, I decided to give it a (very) short trial period by creating a restore point on my computer at the time and giving OneCare a week’s worth of thrashing. It only lasted three days but [...] Read more »

Continue reading about Windows Live OneCare 2 beta. A (personal) First Impression

Kirk M on June 16th, 2007

For those of you who use the Bad Behavior plugn for Wordpress to block spam bot’s before they gain access to your blog, I found a problem when attempting to post using Windows Live Writer (WLW). By it’s design, Bad Behavior blocked Windows Live Writer from accessing my Wordpress based blog preventing any posts [...] Read more »

Continue reading about Fix for using Windows Live Writer with Bad Behavior

Kirk M on June 10th, 2007

Just a quick update here of what I’ve found in pursuit of temporary fixes for the new Windows Live Writer problems.
First the dreaded “ArgumentOutOfRangeException” that presents itself when used with any Wordpress blog irregardless whether it’s hosted on Wordpress.com or your own install. The explanation is here at Andrew Grant Live. Here’s an exceprt:
After [...] Read more »

Continue reading about Update On Windows Live Writer Bug Fixes

Kirk M on May 31st, 2007

Praise the lord and pass the admonition, the new Live Writer is finally here! And of course I had to make a test post just to make sure it worked. The install went without a hitch although I uninstalled beta 1 before hand just in case.
The first problem I encountered was not related to [...] Read more »

Continue reading about Windows Live Writer Beta 2 is Here!

Kirk M on April 25th, 2007

Just some news shorts here from yours truly. This time we’ll look at Peformancing’s newly re-re-incarnated Pmetrics statistics engine, a new blog in town called Amaldo and lastly, a Firefox 3 Planned Features post and comments thereof.
Okay…heeerrrreee we go….
Pmetrics: The new “bored and stroked” dedicated server is in place and the statistics service came back [...] Read more »

Continue reading about On Pmetrics, Amaldo and Firefox 3