If you have no internet after reformatting Windows, you probably just need to install your network driver from the disk that came with your PC.

I’ve been spending a lot of time studying for my Microsoft 70-642 exam, an important part of which is subnetting.As an intellectual exercise I wrote a subnet calculator. Enjoy: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 function subnet($hosts) { $bits = decbin($hosts) + 2; // Add 2 for Network ID and Broadcast $hostBits = strlen($bits); // find how many bits it takes to represent it $cidr = 32 – $hostBits; // Find slash-notation [...]

I’m a command prompt guy.  If there is a way to do something with the keyboard, then by golly, that’s how I’m going to do it.  But sometimes you’ll want to use a command whose options and formatting aren’t obvious, and when you type the command to view the command’s usage (usually by typing command /?, command -h, or command –help), black and white letters go flying by like a newspaper in a Blendtec ad. [...]

This post explains why your changes to php.ini don’t take effect on Windows 7, and how you can fix the problem.

A YouTube member who watched my video about Finding Your Network Settings on Windows XP requested that someone make a similar video for Windows Vista. This video is quick and dirty, but it walks users through each step of finding their network connection settings both through the Windows user interface as well as through the command prompt.