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Archive for June, 2006

Sounds like it is not meant to be a “PayPal replacement” but I really wish it was…
Chances are good that at least once you’ve been ready to make an online purchase, only to abandon it after being thwarted by the Web site’s ordering process. The new Google Checkout service looks to close the sale by […]

SEATTLE, Washington (AP) — Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it would delay the release of its Office business software suite, citing “product performance” issues.
In a statement released by the company’s Waggener Edstrom public relations firm, Microsoft said it would now release the product to big business customers by the end of the year, instead of in […]

Software giant readies its Unified Communication Product Roadmap.

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After years of dipping its toe in the waters of unified voice and data communications, Microsoft is ready to dive in headfirst, and will unveil its […]

If you use GPMC on a Windows XP workstation and have tried to configure wireless settings you may have wondered why that setting does not show up.  One fix for this was to create/edit the policy directly on the domain controller and the Wireless setting will show.
Here is another way, copy the following 3 files […]

Add Sin City look to an image

Because all the cool kids are doing it, and using the posterize filter is so 90’s
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Currently Listening to: Days of the New - Enemy

Cheap Hard Drive

Since you can never have enough storage - Western Digital Caviar 250GB 16MB Serial ATA Hard Drive $87.99 at ZipZoomFly
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A private security company has found a way to nuke the controversial callback component in Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy tool.
Firewall Leak Tester, a company that provides tools to test the quality of personal firewall software, has released a utility called RemoveWGA that blocks Microsoft from “phoning home” from Windows PCs on a daily basis.
“Once […]

We know what happened to Ben in the situation with the bike, but what if it had happened to a different player?
Drew Bledsoe - Same thing as Ben, but it would’ve been on a stationary bike.
Eli Manning - Archie would have intervened and forced Philip Rivers to get on the motorcycle.
Donovan McNabb - He would […]

This is actually a very easy process, backing up the database is done with the following command:
smigrate -w http://server[/site] -f filename.fwp -u domain\id -pw *
This will prompt you for your Domain password, enter it and it will begin backing up your site.
 
Migrating a site:
1. Create a new virtual server in IIS and add the appropriate […]

If you run a vBulletin forum like myself, you probably have some type of ads up and running.  A great way to increase your revenue that completely slipped my mind is to make sure you have your ads showing on your archive pages.
My revenue increased 2-3x since I put some 728×90 text ads at the […]