Monthly Archive: August 2010

Aug 26

A Very Quick Look at the Sharpie Liquid Pencil

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My friend Rich recently sent me one of the new Sharpie Liquid Pencils to play with (thanks Rich!). He knows I’m typically a G2 pen guy and was curious to see what I’d think. At first I absolutely hated it. Don’t get me wrong, it really isn’t horrible… but my initial impression was that it …

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Aug 24

Oh, Did You Want a Timeout?

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Back in February I mentioned that I was reconfiguring my IIS 6 web servers to shutdown the App Pools after 2 hours of inactivity. That seemed a much better option than the brute force iisreset that I’d been scheduling as a nightly event. Turns out I wasn’t quite done yet. Here’s a snip of a …

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Aug 22

WP Schwag

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Look what I got in the mail this weekend: Pretty cool, eh? Back of the shirt has a WordPress.org logo. I believe this is something I got for weighing in on the GPL side of things during last month’s Thesis theme / GPL kerfluffle. I dig the certificate

Aug 18

Trying out Ubuntu Netbook 10.04

Ubuntu Netbook Remix

I’ve been running Windows XP on my trusty Eee 701 netbook for about a year and a half now (last mention). XP worked fine and did the job. However, as time passed it slowly used more and more space. When you only have a 4GB SSD drive to work with, space is a precious commodity! …

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Aug 13

Microsoft Security Essentials beta

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It has been a while since I mentioned Microsoft’s Security Essentials antivirus application. This is what I’ve standardized on for the family and friend home machines that I “manage” for them. Simple, light-weight and has worked very well for us over the past year. Pretty easy to forget about it since it is definitely one …

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