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free text editor that’s a lot more

30 May, 2008 (12:10) | software, tips | By: bbowers

I like to code websites with a text editor to keep the code thin and retain more control over how things in the page act. I also have need of a good editor for perusing IIS logs. Recently, I needed to view and search through a 1.25GB IIS log and couldn’t get Textpad to open [...]

Keep deer out of your garden

25 May, 2008 (13:14) | household, tips | By: bbowers

I’ve only been planting a garden for a few years now, but we live in a rural area where deer like to get to my crops before I do. Sometimes tomato plants get chewed to the ground before they even get a chance to blossom. One of my relatives passed on a tip to keep [...]

Never send an engineer to do a salesperson’s job

19 May, 2008 (10:26) | not fun, tips | By: bbowers

I sat in on a “webinar” (I REALLY hate that word) the other day for a very large company that was presenting its application virtualization product. The salesperson had told us he would even have an engineer on hand to answer questions we may have. Well, they did, but they didn’t mention the engineer would [...]

Fix Windows XP SP3 AMD and HP reboot bug

16 May, 2008 (07:34) | software, tips | By: bbowers

Jesper Johansson left Microsoft in 2006 and has taken the lead in fixing a major Service Pack 3 problem for AMD users.
A bug exists in XP SP3 that causes endless rebooting after SP3 is installed if you are using an AMD CPU and the Intel PPM driver is loaded. Johansson’s tool should be run [...]