Category Archives: Computers

Strange behavior on Cisco / Linksys E2000 Wifi AP

Hopefully this saves people some time and energy. I have a Cisco / Linksys E2000 Wifi Access point. My son has an inexpensive PC connected directly to one of the ports on the back. We were trying to get a … Continue reading

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Era of the Mega, Giga and Tera

In the 80′s we had megahertz speed processors, megabyte sized disks, and kilobit speed wans with megabit lans. In the 90′s we still had megahertz processors, but gigabyte sized disks, megabit wans and 100 megabit lans. wireless was megabit. Here … Continue reading

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VIM rc file stuff

To be honest, I prefer a good GUI IDE for development projects. MSVC 6 with Visual Assist X rocks for C++. For the Rails development I do on my windows laptop, however, I just use a combination of Scite, standard … Continue reading

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Hip Tip for Windows

When you want to get rid of a lot of startup crap that gets installed on a computer, just do: start msconfig It gives you a gui to change all the settings.

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Essential Software

I just got a new PC here at work. I decided to record all of the things I install or change on it: Firefox Less CAPS LOCK switch Google Toolbar – Firefox does this Trillian Sheldon Font Putty – via … Continue reading

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