Tag Archives: Software
Converting from PocoMail to Gmail
Wifey was tired of PocoMail. It has not been revised in years, the HTML renderer, while “safe”, is not very conformant, which translates into lots of Tech Support calls. Me. Since she uses Gmail at work, why not migrate to … Continue reading
WP 3.0.1 and Atahualpa
So I upgrade to WP 3.0.1 using Atahualpa and cannot edit pages. Page, edit, left menu but no text, no nothing. Bad. Have to hold off upgrading all the other blogs. Upgrade Atahualpa to 3.5.3. No good. After weeks of … Continue reading
Microsoft File Transfer Manager
Today I was using this to download 4Gb ISO files from MSDN. Browsers failed, even the Firefox DownItAll! Plugin. It was slow, bursts of 100K with 10 second intervals. The speed was that of a bad modem. And it would … Continue reading
Mavica 411
At Bette’s school, the classroom digicam is a Sony Mavica MVC-FD200, circa 2002, very old school with a FLOPPY drive or Memory Stick media. …Memory Stick card slot and can store up to 128MB of images (from Steve’s Digicams) We … Continue reading
nLite
I bought an old computer from Steve, dual core, better that I have now. Anyway, I am reinstalling a retail Windows XP onto it, and want to install SP2 fresh, not SP1 and upgrade. Creates a lot of junk. So … Continue reading
Course: Edward Tufte, Presenting Data and Information
Karin from work and I attended a one-day course, Presenting Data and Information, by Edward Tufte at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. I had read some of his stuff a year or two earlier, tried to go to the Chicago course, … Continue reading
Thanks 1&1 Ya Dopes for not including Subversion
OK so they warned me. They moved to a new Linux platform, and Subversion stopped working. I used my own instructions to rebuild. No good. Errors. After some Googling I found an article by Nick Sergeant and he basically had … Continue reading
clip.exe
I wrote a utility called clip many years ago — you pipe output from a DOS program into it and it puts it on the clipboard. Then you can paste it somewhere. e.g. dir > clip I found a link … Continue reading
Changing CVS roots in existing checkouts
SO I got a chunk of CVS and the server has been moved. See this for the Unix version. I am on windows, with no Cygwin (in this machine). use strict; use Cwd; use File::Find; use File::Copy; use File::Basename; my … Continue reading
Paint Shop Pro X2 Duplicate Error Messages
I just upgraded to Corel PSP X2, and when I start it up got a bunch of dialogs complaining about duplicate image names related to the default brush, tube, and other files installed with the product. After some Googling and … Continue reading