Posted by Johan Cyprich on 23 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: How To
Adobe’s PDF document format finally has some serious competition for market share. Microsoft XPS (XML Paper Specification) is a new electronic document format that can be generated from any application and then distributed without requiring that application to view it. XPS essentially does the same thing as PDF. Windows Vista has a native viewer, but [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 12 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: Applications
WordPress 2.8 was released on June 10 and it was a very easy upgrade on my blog with the automated update feature on WordPress. All of my plugins and my theme are working without issues in the new version. I strongly recommend backing up your blog and database before making any upgrade. There was one [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 09 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: How To
I recently was unable to access my DVD drive on a Windows XP machine. At first I thought the drive must be bad, but I booted the computer with Windows through Bart PE and found that the drive was work properly. So the problem was software based which lead me to reinstall the DVD driver. [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 03 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: How To
I recently merged two drives that were in separate partitions on a hard drive with Partition Magic. Hard drive F would be copied into the a folder called F on hard drive E. Unfortunately, an error occurred and the operation failed. The two drives were merged together, but the contents of drive F: were lost.
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Posted by Johan Cyprich on 03 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: Programming
Many web servers have a database server on the same machine. A problem with this type of configuration is that it puts too much of a load on the server and overall performance can be poor with a high traffic web site. Database servers work best when they are on their own computer apart from [...]