Rochester to get wiffy

Ralph posted an entry earlier this year on the up-and-coming Wi-Fi setup in the City of Rochester. The article said that the Wi-Fi would be setup by the end of the year, but I haven’t heard any more news on that. How exciting would that be?

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Offline NT Password & Registry Editor

spugbrap’s random notes geek blog: Offline NT Password & Registry Editor A friend of mine had acquired a laptop that his company was throwing out, but couldn’t figure out why. He didn’t have the Administrator login so he couldn’t dig around, so he gave it to me to look at. I did a search for… More

And the winner is…

I’ve been applying for web development jobs for the last month or so. Maybe it’s just Rochester, but .NET developers are in high demand! I have yet to run across a PHP developer position job ad. I guess I know what it’s time to concentrate on… Glad I bought a Mac!

Fedora + SATA drive + Dell = issues!

Apparently Fedora doesn’t like it when you try to install it on an SATA drive on a Dell system that also has an aftermarket IDE extension kit. Which kind of makes sense, as you need drivers to get the PCI IDE extension kit to work normally. I guess I expected more… I would install Fedora… More

Spending spree

I might have to buy new pants after this weekend, because the money was burning holes in my pockets! My co-worker, Zito, had given me a coupon for 10% any purchase from Best Buy for the Labor Day weekend sale. On Saturday I drove down (after hours of comparison shopping online) and said “I want… More

Web 0.9

I visited Jon’s site and he had posted about a site he had done years ago that hadn’t been touched until recently. In the post he references the website of the designer responsible for the redesign. Since I can’t leave comments on his site, I’ll write my own here. The site in question: http://hshp.has.a.catchydomain.name/ Is… More

GoDaddy, WordPress, php, Windows Hosting

I’m not sure hosting on GoDaddy is worth the money OR the trouble. Trying to install a simple php package turned into a huge chore. I decided upon the WordPress package for use on a client’s site, to be hosted on GoDaddy’s servers. Because GoDaddy locks down the servers, many php features and functions have… More