First up I must apologise for my lack of blog activity over the past month or so but I have been very busy at work and then holidays over the new year and more recently working on a website, enough excuses, here is one for you web-designers out there. For the past few months I… [Read the Rest]
How to enable Telnet on Windows 7 & Vista
Today I tried to Telnet into a Cisco switch at work today not remembering that Windows 7 doesn’t have Telnet enabled by default, neither does Vista for that matter. I guess in an attempt to make Windows a little more secure as Telnet by it’s self is not a very secure form of communicating. Regardless… [Read the Rest]
How To Safely Turn On A Power Supply Without A Motherboard
Here is a good trick for you tech-heads out there. Quite often you need to test a power supply to see if it is working correctly and sometimes you may not have a computer to connect it to. Fortunately there is a very easy trick to turning a power supply on with just a small… [Read the Rest]
World Class Web Hosting – $2 a month
A week or so a go I wrote about a free web hosting service offered by Xtreemhost, while this service is still great it did have some limitations, most notably the 4mb file size limit and the decreased performance as compared to a paid account. If you are after hosting for a small website I… [Read the Rest]
Solid State Drive (SSD) Awesomeness
I can’t think of anything awesome to write about, I have been very slack lately. I did however find this video (CAUTION: Nerd Alert) about Solid State Hard Drives that demonstrates how ridiculously fast they are. Well maybe the configuration in the video is probably a bit out of reach of the average persons price… [Read the Rest]