Q. Hi, for work we just bought a nice new Dell M4700 and M6700 and I am in charge of installing a clean edition of Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. Everything went great except now I have one ACPI/SMO8810 unknown device in device manager! I do not know what it is or how to find the correct [...]
Last night I had an error show up a couple times while using Navicat to backup database on Weblogs.us. This was the error: [Err] [Bak] 1286 – Unknown table engine ‘InnoDB 00:00:00′ On this server MyISAM was preferred so I had specifically disabled InnoDB, yet something was trying to deal with InnoDB and it was causing the [...]
While working on part of the Branson’s Nantucket website I needed to find a way to reduce page load times. Of course there are many ways to do this but one thing that immediately stood out was JPEG file size. Some JPEGs were 400kb+ and there were a number of them to be loaded on one [...]
A few useful CSS links, used while working on a recent project: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/49536/how-do-i-really-justify-a-horizontal-menu-in-htmlcss http://cssdesk.com/ http://css-tricks.com/centering-list-items-horizontally-slightly-trickier-than-you-might-think/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2865380/how-do-i-center-align-horizontal-ul-menu
For those of us that appreciate quiet, and the removal of one more point of failure, fanless computers are a wonderful thing. While building a fanless desktop computer is quite easy, finding a fanless laptop is quite hard! To make things a bit easier for others interested in fanless laptops, I am compiling a list [...]
New hardware! A couple exciting tidbits over at Weblogs.us: We have some cool new hardware upgrades Thanks to Kevin we will have some nice new SSDs on the way! Deciding on a SSD As for the SSDs, the top candidate so far is the Intel 520 Series Solid-State Drive in the 480GB capacity. Intel’s reliability and 5 [...]
I recently had an issue where VMWare Server 2′s web based administrative interface was no longer available It turns out the issue was that one of the services required by VMWare Server 2 had stopped. Starting the service again solved the issue! VMWare Host Agent VMWare Authorization service VMWare DHCP service VMWare NAT Service VMWare [...]
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