Today I am going to help out a nephew of mine. He is getting a computer and I am going to help him set it up, tweak it, and maybe tighten up security on it… I might even show him how to keep Windows updated just in case another hole or vulnerability is discovered which …
Category: Computing
Sep 10
Gotta reinstall soon…
I still have not reinstalled Windows 2000 on my main workstation. I have to do it soon or I will go insane. Windows is getting worse and worse… Well, soon it will happen, and all will rejoice.
Sep 03
Floyd and FreeBSD
I have a computer I call ‘Floyd’. It is a Pentium 200Mhz MMX with 64Megs of SDRAM. It also has a couple of 8.4Gig hard drives. I installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0 on it and then installed Apache. It is behind a firewall on a DMZ by itself so hopefully that is enough to keep it …
Sep 01
USB Keyboards thy name be evil…
One thing I have noticed is that USB keyboards work normally but any problems that might come up regarding a keyboard and you normally need a PS/2 keyboard instead since it tends to be totally hardware and specifically meant for working no matter what. I am working on a computer that is running Windows 98 …
Aug 28
Hosting hosting everywhere…
Well, ‘smock.com’ is still hosted with ‘Liquidweb.com’ but it got moved to a newer server and some things upgraded. Instead of 750megs of storage I now get 2gig. Instead of 30gig of bandwidth I now get 50gig. I figure that is more than enough to keep me going. If all goes right and I am …
Aug 07
Boredom I call it computers
Right now I am finding computers in general to be boring…or at least getting to be as such. I think it is because of the lack of a challenge. The only major challenge that I have left to learn is programming and time does not often permit the learning curve involved. I have some knowledge …
Aug 06
Gambit of updates
You know, I have been updating the computers up at where I work now for the past two weeks as I have to work around the schedule of others. I do not mind that because that often is part of the job that IT Admins have to face. It is just that the updates are …
Aug 05
Apophis yet again…
That same day that Apophis gave me problems I was able to use the Recovery Console to restore the Windows 2000 MBR. That did calm me down a bit from how irritated I was. I still am going to get Linux on there. I might give Mandrake one more try as when it is installed …
Aug 04
Irritation thy name be ‘A Record’
If you do not know anything about DNS records and how they work then this will not make a great deal of sense to you. My niece was having trouble sending email to someone she knows as it would bounce back saying mail.theuncle.com was on a blacklist. I checked and it seemed the reason was …
Aug 03
MBR and other irritating things
Well, I have learned something recently. Well, specifically yesterday I learned it. If you install Mandrake Linux 9.1 be careful since it likes to put LILO in the MBR. I had to learn the way to restore the Windows 2000 MBR so I would be able to boot Windows. I have Windows 2000 set up …
Aug 02
Rebuilding the beast
Oh man, I just remembered that I will have to reinstall Windows 2000 on my primary workstation. You know you have to when the copy/paste function suddenly stops working for no reason with no errors and then later on starts working again. I have had it installed for a long time. At least for someone …
Aug 01
Apophis…not the false god
Apophis is the name of one of my computers. I was having problems with it this past week. I was having trouble pinpointing the problem until I looked at the Event Viewer and saw that the DVD-ROM drive was throwing out read errors. I decided to be lazy for the interm and just plug a …