Archive for July, 2008

July 31, 2008

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Found a great site that I had not previously known about, to create the virtual machines for use in VMWare Player. The site is called Easy VMX and its a very slick web interface that allows the creation of these files. Then the free VMWare Player will just ...

July 28, 2008

Monday, July 28th, 2008

After much pain with Firefox lately, I think I have found the issue with why it keeps crashing.  As near as I can tell, its related to the new AVG8's "Link Scanner" feature.  When I disabled that feature in AVG8 the browser stopped crashing. When I installed AVG8, I chose not ...

July 16, 2008

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Posted new page in my wiki about how I set up my PC view of my Tivo's Now Playing lists.  This will definitely need to be updated/tuned at some point, but the data is out there for now.

July 9, 2008

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Anyone who's ever seen my Windows desktop, has seen how many browser windows I have open, and how many tabs in each.  On average, there are 3-4 windows, with 12-15 tabs in each.  Easily over 30 open sessions at any given time - many of which auto refresh.  Its sort ...

July 6, 2008

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Original post from July 2 was removed, and recreated today.  Also setup option that I dont allow anonymous comments anymore.  Im tired of dealing with the spammers.  So here's the original July 2 posting : ---- Going absolutely crazy lately, trying to boot knoppix on my daily driver, athlonxp workstation. Its running ...

July 1, 2008

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Had a few issues while trying to add AVG8.0 to a laptop. its an older laptop, had XP (no SP's on it) and was working fine. However, upgrade from AVG7 to AVG8 requires SP2 to be installed. Doing that caused me issue with ZoneAlarm, which was an ...