Technology

Why do my servers seem to know I’m gone.

Cool Beans! mikedaddy.com was available. I’m so excited. Its finally not some hair dresser’s website. Anywho I registered it and will be moving my weblog over to that domain within the next week.

The National Do not call Registry is up! Finally they’re doing something about phone-spam. Now for the next step, a national do not spam registry for email! haha that would be one HUGE database. Most telemarketers cannot call your telephone number if it is in the National Do Not Call Registry. You can register your home and mobile phone numbers for free. Your registration will be effective for five years. ...

Biggest mistake I ever did was install a livejournal server. This software is VERY unmanageable. I want to be able to delete all these damn duplicate users, I also want reports of how many entries users have made and how long its been since they’ve logged in. Unfortunately there is nothing for this. All I have to work with is the damn admin console. I can’t even list users with that. My final note to leave you with… ...

I wanted to make note of this in my blog so I could reference it later. Very Handy way to rip audio from dvds. Thanks Jeremy Zawodny and David Dorward I use Transcode for this, for example: transcode -i /dev/dvd -p /dev/dvd -T 1,1 -E 44100 -y null,wav -m myAudio.wav -s 3 http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~transcode/ Read More : Jeremy Zawodny’s blog: DVD Audio Extraction?

PHP Photo galleries were at risk for getting hacked. I’ve taken them down.

I should be a product tester at the very least.

Awesome program to show your windows and office keys in any current windows OS. Tried it on XP and it worked great. The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install windows from your registry. It has the options to copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or print it for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Office 97, and Office XP. This version is a quick update to make it work with Windows Server 2003. ...

An article about Microsoft launching a new security Certification. And some harsh words from Continental towards the ‘linux guys’ whom apparently are all hackers! Acknowledging that vendors and IT professionals have to step into the breach to make computing more secure, Microsoft Tuesday launched two new security certifications and again pledged to make software patches easier to apply. Scott Charney, Microsoft’s chief security strategist, said Tuesday that he is working to adapt the company’s corporate culture to make patch application more uniform and rational. ...

By Paul Festa – CNET A patent underlying one of the Web’s most popular graphics formats is set to expire later this month, raising the question of whether a rival, open format, created as a royalty-free alternative, will become obsolete. The situation has also rekindled debate about patents, innovation and the freedom of communication. In the United States, the patent for the Lempel-Ziv-Welch, or LZW, compression algorithm expires June 20. LZW forms the basis of the popular GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) design. ...