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. [...]

Earlier tonight I was setting up some development tools on my new laptop and ran across a problem that I had never seen before.  When I began testing an application that uses the Facebook API (which depends on the CURL library), PHP insisted that the CURL extension was not loaded.  I checked and double-checked that my php.ini file was correct (it was) and that the rest of my extensions were loading (they were). Finally after [...]

An open letter to PC manufacturers pleading for them to once again start sending recovery disks with their system.

Symantec explains how to enable the Windows Installer service in Safe Mode and Safe Mode with Networking so you can install software you may need to resolve a malware problem.

Call it frugality. Call it insanity. Call it what you will, but I’m converting my computers that I use for my consulting business to Linux. That’s right, I’m a Microsoft Certified computer consultant whose going to switch to Linux. Actually, I’ll go one step further: I’m going to try to switch completely to Free Software. This is the start of my journey.