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I’ve always been a fan of Microsoft’s Power Toys applications. They’re quick and dirty productivity or enhancement tools. They are (were) tools by Microsoft developers that were made available “as-is” without official support from Microsoft itself. One of my favorites was the Image Resizer. It offered an easy way to resize images from your right-click […]
Because I am huge history nerd, I occasionally (OK, frequently) visit websites like the National Archives and the Library of Congress. While browsing our nation’s library, I noticed this posting, announcing that the Library of Congress recently uploaded over 3,000 images to Flickr.
There are currently two photo sets - 1930s-40s in Color and News in […]
This is certainly not a definitive guide to archiving or storing digital audio. This is just an overview of what I do with my library.
Since I first started storing music digitally, MP3 has been my format of choice. It is not open source, but a.) it is the ubiquitous digital audio format and b.) I […]
An application tries to make an RPC call on a Windows 2003 Server and generates the following error:
There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper
Solution? Enable the Windows Firewall Service.
Can someone please tell me why I have to enable the Windows Firewall Service for […]
Being at work at 15 past midnight (00:15 as the clock on this PC reads) is not cool.
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No, I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth, though the site has been pretty much inaccessible for two weeks now. My host, iPowerWeb, was transitioning many of their accounts to a new hosting platform. In the process, some DNS records were not updated correctly, effectively knocking me offline.
This is the first real problem […]