Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
XBMC woot!
Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Quickie, Software
Thanks to the excellent information posted by the guys over at Product Wiki, I finally have soft-modded my ancient X-Box to run XBMC. Basically, this means I can now use my X-Box to watch video files, listen to MP3s, etc… Sweeeeeet!
AnimeIowa Forums be Stylish
Posted by Mark | Filed under Software, Web Design
The title on this post is somewhat misleading. The default stylings of AnimeIowa’s forums make my eyes blee, especially after some of the forum members have taken it upon themselves to give their words extra features ugliness. E.g. putting bright, yellow text on top of a dark blue background. Fortunately, I do 99.9999% of my […]
Tags: AnimeIowa, firefox, stylish
Windows Heck
Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Life, Software
On Easter Sunday, my wife and I went to her sister’s for lunch1. While we were there, the relatives sprang a couple of broken computers on me asking me to fix them2. Since we were getting really good grub3, I figured I could at least take a look. Of course, neither person with a broken […]
Tags: family, repair, sysadmin, windows
Problems with Norton AntiVirus 2006 and ODBC Connections
Posted by Mark | Filed under Software
While I run Kubuntu as my primary OS on all my home machines, my work machine has Windows XP on it. Recently our IT dept installed Norton AntiVirus 2006 on all our machines. Some people had problems with this immediately, while others (like myself) had not noticed any problems. Then today I tried to export […]
Convert from AMM to Now Reading
Posted by Mark | Filed under MySQL, WordPress
As part of my upgrading to the latest/greatest version of WordPress, I switched over to using the Now Reading plugin from AMM. I switched because development on AMM seems to have come to a complete halt and it was acting somewhat flaky prior to the upgrade. One of the big problems with switching over was […]
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