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Getting your Mower Ready for Spring

Mar 24, 2008 by Paul White

Spring is here, and your lawn is starting to take over.  Before you get your mower out and attack that jungle on your property, do a few things to ensure your hardware is ready for the task at hand.  Here is a checklist of things to keep in mind as you fire up your mower for spring.

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Tripp-Lite UPS review

Mar 15, 2008 by Paul White

TrippLite UPS
This is my review of the TrippLite UPS.  Lets just say it has saved me from countless power outages, and brown outs.  I highly recommend this Unit
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Samsung SyncMaster 175V DIM and Menu Locked

Mar 14, 2008 by Paul White

Samsung Synmaster Monitors going bad
I built my workstation about 5 years ago, and at the time it was cutting edge stuff.  However one of my 17 inch SyncMaster LCDs has been having issues for the past couple days.  The Picture still shows but its very dim. What is weird is when I hit the menu button the menu comes up with the right intensity.  I have searched google and it seems I am not the only person having this problem.  I don't have time to hunt ebay for replacement parts, so I ordered some a couple new monitors off newegg.

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What is the best lawn Fertalizer

Mar 13, 2008 by Paul White

dormant texas lawnPlusViagro Equals green lawn
So spring is here ( at least it is in south Texas ).  My lawn is dormant and it is making my house the eye sore of the neighborhood.  Thankfully I know just the product to green up my lawn, and ensure the grass is greener on my side of the fence. Checkout the full size images within

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How to stop Real Player from downloading your videos with ASP.NET

Mar 11, 2008 by Paul White

Coming soon!!  Even though you can never block computer savy people from downloading your videos. The latest Real Player makes it so easy that even a computer handicaped person could download videos from your members sites.  After some hacking I figured out how to bock Real Player from stealing your videos.  All I am going to say is it involves an Http Handler, and an ISAPI entry to manage your .MPG extensions.  I should have a full write up on how to do this within a few days.

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Google Toolbar is slowing your browser down

Mar 4, 2008 by Paul White


I finally couldn't take it anymore.  I have uninstalled google toolbar from my computer.  I don't know what it is about google toolbar but firefox ran like a dog with it installed.  I suspect google is doing more than just collecting some info about the page your are on for pagerank display.   I now consider google toolbar to be spyware. If you have it on your computer remove it! 

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What Webmasters know about Goog that investors don't

Mar 3, 2008 by Paul White

The last few months have been interesting for Google's Stock.  Investors who make their plays based on earnings estimates, and hype see a very narrow view of what Google is really up to.  If you really want to know what google is up to, ask Webmasters.  Any Webmaster that runs a large website will tell you that google is changing the way it is doing Search.  Here are my predictions on Goog

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Stop Hackers and Spam Bots in IIS

Mar 1, 2008 by Paul White


If you get a ton of server errors in your event logs in IIS. You might be under attack from hackers and spam bots attempting to inject comments and links in your submit forms.  The notorious Viewstate Failed Error seems to be the result of their attempts.  I have found an awesome resource to take care of this, and block these rejects for good. 

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Google Page Rank Explained

Feb 24, 2008 by Paul White


If you build websites for a living, or you just want to increase your rank on google, its important to have a good understanding of how the google page rank system works.  PageRank is nothing more than a numeric number that represents your importance on the internet.  The value goes from NA ( meaning not indexed ) from 0 - 10 ( the only 10 is google ).  I have included some nice pictures to help better explain how it all works.

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O&O Defrag 10 Professional will make your computer faster

Feb 24, 2008 by Paul White


I recently did a little cleaning of my workstation.  Typical stuff like deleting old files, data backups, and of course defrag.  Afterwards however my computer just didn't seem as fast as usual.  I was using the built in Windows XP defrag program.  Which is ok, but unless your system is heavily defraged you really won't notice a difference in performace.  I had used another after market program before, but I wanted to see if I could find something even better. I heard about O&O Defrag.  So I gave it a try and wow what a difference!

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