I often talk with people who spend just as much time as me (or more) surfing various blogs and sites to keep up on news in a broad array of areas. One complaint is usually that people miss material, or material is posted so rapidly that they feel overwhelmed. A solution to this is to …
Tag Archive: Internet
Jan 08
Jon’s Linux Experiment – Part 4 – The PPTP VPN Snafu
Well, here is a new problem that I’ve solved, with a little help from a few websites! Like many people who work on the internet, I need to connect to a VPN from time to time to work. My VPN, a PPTP Windows 2003 Server VPN, is a nice little setup that I use to …
Dec 20
TinyUrl Oddities
OK, so I’m not the most normal person in the world, but today while surfing around I think I found some people who are weirder than I. You see there’s this service called TinyURL.com that will take insanely long URL addresses and create shortcut URLs that are easily transmitted. They also allow you to ‘pick’ …
Dec 18
Pandora Puts Personalized Music On Windows Mobile Devices
www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=3731 “Pandora provides a personalized, Internet-based radio service. Today, Pandora announced that it is extending its PC-based software to select Windows Mobile devices. The mobile version will have the same features as the online version, such as creating new stations, bookmarking songs, and rating songs with thumbs up or thumbs down. Pandora will initially support …
Sep 16
Building Software Based Experiments: Techniques, Tools, and Tips
Welcome to Jon Westfall’s Software Based Experiment Resource site. This site will begin it’s life to serve as a supplement to my contribution to the SJDM Computing Symposium, and continue on as a resource to other social scientists that seek simple solutions to building software. (Whoa, Holy Alliteration Batman!) If you have any questions, feel …
Jul 25
Happy SysAdmin Day Everyone
Today is the last Friday in July, which means it’s SysAdmin day. The 9th annual SysAdmin day to be specific. Check out www.sysadminday.com/ for more information. The blurb on their frontpage pretty much says it all. Here it is, edited for length: “A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an …
May 24
Take The Internet With You When You Go!
About a year ago, I switched from Direcway Broadband Satellite internet to a Sprint EVDO Rev A card for my home internet service. The choice was easy – the Sprint card was cheaper and had better speeds overall than the satellite. For awhile, I put my broadband card into a spare computer and had it …
Jan 03
Browsing When IE Isn’t Available
www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/03/how-to-surf-the-web-even-if-internet-explorer-is-disabled/ Saw this on Download Squad this morning and thought it was pretty cool. Basically Windows Help will let you browse to websites, even if IE is disabled or virus-ridden. As one poster pointed out, this means you can download anti-virus on a machine that IE is unusable on. Cool.
Jun 02
Ultimate Link List
The Ultimate Link Listing TrendMicro’s Online Virus Scanner (Housecall) housecall.trendmicro.com John Savill’s FAQ For Windows www.windowsitpro.com/windowsnt20002003faq/ SpyBot Search & Destroy spybot.safer-networking.de/en/index.html LavaSoft (Makers of Ad-aware) www.lavasoft.de/ Sites Good For Hardware Purchasing www.nextag.com (Comparison Shopping) www.froogle.com (Comparison Shopping) www.pricewatch.com (Comparison Shopping) www.tigerdirect.com (Fairly Good Deals, Nice Selection) www.cdw.com (Selection Great, Prices Not – but if you …
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