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Left 4 Dead 2

Laz — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:10:49 +0000

This isn’t a review specifically, but I wanted to post some thoughts on the sequel to the smash hit Left 4 Dead, aptly named Left 4 Dead 2. At first glance, this game seems like a mod more than a true sequel. The four main characters are new and different, and there are some new [...]

Neverwinter Nights 2 – Toolset Quick Reference

Laz — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:15:51 +0000

I am sure there are tons of Neverwinter Nights fans out there, for both the original and version 2. If anyone is interested in tinkering with the tool set for Neverwinter Nights 2, here is a handy wuick reference for you. Check it out …

Windows XP to Windows 7 Upgrade

Laz — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:51:18 +0000

OK folks, here is a tidbit for you, if anyone has been checking out Windows 7 and thought that an upgrade might be in their future, well they would have been dismayed to find out that there is no direct upgrade path from XP to 7. That means you can’t insert you good ol’ Windows [...]

Verizon Email Update and Solution

Laz — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:46:19 +0000

You have heard me share information about the fiasco that Verizon created. In case you haven’t heard, I’ll recap quickly. In the name of fighting SPAM, Verizon decided that they would block ALL port 25 SMTP traffic on their network for all of their ISP customers. That means that anyone and everyone that uses Verizon [...]

FREE software from SafelyRemove.com

Laz — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:43:38 +0000

Here you go folks! There is an interesting program called USB Safely Remove, a self proclaimed must have if you frequently use such hotplug devices as: flash drives, USB\SATA drives, card readers and the like. Read more about it at: http://safelyremove.com/ Download the program here: http://safelyremove.com/usbsafelyremovesetup.exe If you hurry, you can get a free license for version 4.1 of [...]

Revo Uninstaller, One Bad Program Remover!

Laz — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:28:46 +0000

Bad as in good, as in one bad motha’SHUT YO MOUTH! Jus’ talkin’ ’bout Revo. Sorry, I digress. Anyway, this cool tool is called Revo Uninstaller as if you didn’t catch that already, and it’s one of the most useful Windows tools I have come across in a long time. Don’t get me wrong, all the [...]

Verizon Cripples Users Email

Laz — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:38:17 +0000

Guess what kiddies, in troubleshooting an email connection for a customer that was unable to send any email through one of my servers, I found the problem was not quite what I expected. The good news is that the problem wasn’t my mail server, or even on my end at all for that matter. After [...]

Hosted Subversion and a whole lot more at CodeSpaces

Laz — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:11:49 +0000

Greetings folks, I’d like to take a moment to share with you something that I found a while back and have been using since I found it. What I found was a service, a source code hosting service fully integrated with Subversion. Now, I had already been using Subversion, I had it setup and running [...]

Piggyback App On Java Update

Laz — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:53:24 +0000

Here is a heads up that we are seeing the online backup application Carbonite, put out by the company of the same name, bundled with a Java update. If you aren’t careful, when you click through the Java update installer, you get Carbonite and a 30 day trial subscription to the service. Not [...]

Latest Solaris 10 Patch Cluster Is Broken

Laz — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:15:05 +0000

Thought I would share this with anyone out there that manages Solaris 10 servers. In my case we were working with Sparc, but x86 might be affected as well. I’ll skip all of the gory details, but basically what we ran into was a problem with the dependency matrix for a kernel patch (I believe the [...]