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Windows 64 bit OS still a battered child?
Written by Marco Conti Sunday, 13 September 2009 10:19
A Sunday Morning rant on windows stupidity.
A couple of yars ago I made the big jump to installing Vista 64 on my main workstation. The main reason at the time was because I felt the time for 64 bit computing on windows had come, drivers were easier to find and I wanted to utilize my motherboard 8GB maximum capacity.
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Carbonite Online Backup - Too Good to be True? Possibly.
Written by Marco Conti Tuesday, 11 August 2009 14:36
I was listening to the Leo Laporte Podcast the other day and he mentioned how happy he was with the Carbonite Online Backup service. Since I have been looking for a good online backup service when I got back home I checked them out and I decided to purchase it right there and then.
After all "Unlimited Online Backup" it's too good of an offer for less than $50 a year (after discount).
Since I have been having issues with some Hard Drives failing on me, and I am planning a major clean installation of Vista 64 on my main computer, I couldn't wait to put my music, movies and documents on a secure online storage. I almost lost my data once already when a "MyBook" WD Hard Drive almost failed. I can't risk a data loss. For $50 a year I certainly cannot justify NOT doing it.
And that's when the comedy of errors started.
SEO for Video - Quite a different beast
Written by Marco Conti Wednesday, 22 July 2009 18:52
Recentaly I started a new screencast about Joomla called 10 minute Joomla! Tips. It turned out to be quite the undertaking. Mostly I had a lot of problems choosing the right videoframe size, resolution, capture resolution, frame rate and hosting web sites (and I am still working on it). But that was not as hard as finding any good SEO tips for Video.
The Mac OS is back in the house!
Written by Marco Conti Sunday, 07 June 2009 22:32
A long, long time ago, my very first computer was a Macintosh Plus with 284K of memory, no hard drive (and no second diskette slot, something I envied newer Macs owners for) and a 2 inch screen... almost.
Then, in the early 90's I dropped $5K on a shiny new Mac and until 2002 the Mac was my primary machine. However, due to my corporate webmaster position, I always had a dual machine set up. Slowly but surely, my PC took the place of my Mac and when I started working on my own, my newest box was a PC and most of my software licenses were for PC. It was only natural that my next computer would be a PC.
Has your XAMPP forgotten "localhost"? Here is the cure.
Written by Marco Conti Thursday, 14 May 2009 00:00
My Windows Vista machine recently "forgot " that when I type "localhost" in my browser it would really be a good idea if I could get to my XAMPP homepage.
I have recently switched users in windows and when I went to use my local Apache server to test a database trick I am working on, Firefox was unable to connect to the XAMPP home page.
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