By Grant on Apr 24, 2008 in Hardware, News, Software, Video Games/Systems | 0 Comments
Finally its here, Harmonix has released a wireless guitar for Rockband. I don’t know about you but one of the nice things about the XBOX 360 is the wireless controllers. No cable mess, girlfriends complaining about you leaving your toys all over the family room and changing the devices that are plugged into your xbox [...]
By Grant on Apr 24, 2008 in Linux, News, Software | 0 Comments
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is available today for mass consumption. Fire up your favorite bit torrent client and get to work. What are you waiting for.
Get It Now
By Mike on Apr 17, 2008 in Internet, Software | 0 Comments
If you want to talk about great PHP scripts then you need to check out phpXplorer.
From the website:
phpXplorer is an open source file management system written in PHP. It enables you to work on a remote file system through a web browser. By default it has got dialogs for editing HTML, PHP, image, Apache, compressed [...]
By Mike on Apr 15, 2008 in Software, Windows | 1 Comment
Almost daily I am asked how to remove spyware or malware from an infected windows system so, I thought I would compile a list of the free utilities I use to perform that task. That way I could point those poor souls here instead of spending thirty minutes explaining all the options.
These programs can help [...]
By Mike on Apr 9, 2008 in Hacks/Mods, How to, Linux, Software | 3 Comments
From time to time I am asked to break a password on an Adobe PDF file. This mostly comes up when the user who created the pdf can’t remember what their own password is. As annoying as that is, actually recovering the password is simple using pdfcrack.
PDFCrack is a GNU/Linux application (or any other [...]
By Chris on Apr 2, 2008 in Software, Video Games/Systems | 1 Comment
If you are a wow fan like me, you have many addons for World of Warcraft, but after every patch that Blizzard throws at us, some of them break and need to be updated. Normally you have to go to the site you received the addon from and hope that it has been updated [...]
By Chris on Apr 2, 2008 in Featured, Software, Video Games/Systems | 0 Comments
World of Warcraft is one the the best games out there and even without these addons, it is still a very fun experience, but let me add some cocaine to your coffee. I love these addons and it makes playing WoW easier and much more fun. And the best part [...]
By Mike on Mar 30, 2008 in News, Software | 0 Comments
I’m sure this is being covered to death but, if you haven’t heard, Wordpress 2.5 is out. Some of the improvements include:
multi-file uploading
one-click plugin upgrades
built-in galleries
customizable dashboard
salted passwords and cookie encryption
media library
a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code
concurrent post editing protection
full-screen writing
search that covers posts and pages
The most significant changes are to [...]
By Mike on Mar 29, 2008 in Featured, Linux, Software | 6 Comments
Amanda vs Bacula Open Source / Free Backup Software
One of the most popular questions I get concerning using Linux in a production environment is how to back the system up without having to resort to non-open source solutions.
Backing up Linux isn’t any different then backing up any of it closed source counterparts. The options range [...]
By Chris on Mar 27, 2008 in Software, Windows | 1 Comment
Here is another great free utility/program so you can calm the OCD voices in your head. Xinorbis is a simple but powerful hard drive analyzer. It gives the user an overview of the contents of your hard disk or directory, complete with graphs, tables and tree displays. It works for (Windows [...]